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Nifong jumps on Obama bandwagon

Disgraced former Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong has laid low for more than a year, but he came out in public yesterday to canvass for Barack Obama (this is a Herald-Sun story, but I’m linking to another source because The Herald-Sun requires registration):

Even former District Attorney Mike Nifong, who lost his job last year because of the Duke lacrosse scandal, spent much of Saturday morning canvassing homes for the Democratic presidential hopeful.

“He’s the right man at the right time,” said Nifong. “We need to get him elected.”

Local Obama spokesman Paul Cox said later that Nifong “has no official role in the campaign and was not recruited by the campaign. He simply showed up as a volunteer.”

5 Responses to “Nifong jumps on Obama bandwagon”

  • Jul
    27
    2008

    [...] News » News Nifong jumps on Obama bandwagon2008-07-27 13:05:44Time,” lacrosse scandal, spent much of the right time,” … his job last year [...]

  • Jul
    27
    2008

    Local Obama spokesman Paul Cox said later that Nifong “has no official role in the campaign and was not recruited by the campaign. He simply showed up as a volunteer.”

    Yeah, and those Obama campaign workers down in Houston who had a giant flag of Che Guevara hanging in their campaign office were just “volunteers”, too.

  • Jul
    27
    2008

    Dang, that second paragraph was not supposed to be in italics…

  • Aug
    06
    2008

    Did you notice this?

    “We have a choice to change the social fabric of America,” said [Durham Mayor Pro Tempore Cora] Cole-McFadden. “We will elect the first African-American president. We know we will be victorious in November. God has sent us several prophets: Moses, [John F.] Kennedy, Martin [Luther King Jr.] and now Obama. He is anointed.”

  • Sep
    04
    2012

    [...] don’t know; it seems to me the DNC is dumbing messiah down. Meh, some Anointed One: can’t even earn a letter grade on the economy (semantics: you don’t earn Fs), [...]

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