Reply #118: The Muslim thing, is one that I corrected many people when canvassing. [View All]

[Beacool]

It was quite prevalent, believe it or not, even after the Rev. Wright debacle. We were always told to go out with a positive attitude and not trash any opponent (in NJ all were still on the ballot). Our job was to highlight our candidate, not to put down other Democrats.

By the time PA rolled around we had volunteers from all over the country. In Reading alone, we had people from FL (3 of them had volunteered in various states and brought with them crates of oranges), a doctor from Dallas who put his practice on hold for a week because he believed so much in her health care plan, a couple from CA, and others from MI, AR, CO, a slew of people from NJ and bus loads on the weekends from NY. We even had a super delegate from KS who Bill had called in person to come and help out. There was also a group of 40 Mexican-American business people from TX who chartered a plane and were working the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley area. How could the punditry keep repeating the "get out" message when so many people were willing to give their time and money to her campaign? She stayed in it until the last primary because of us who supported her in good times and bad times.

As for the lady in the T-shirt, she probably assumed that his campaign gave out buttons like ours did.