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    Plouffe wrote about how "the document on outsourcing was titled 'Hillary Clinton, D-Punjab,' after an incident when Hillary Clinton was in India and she jokingly told a local official that should be a title because of her ongoing political interest in many things Indian." Clinton had actually made this remark at a funddraiser hosted for her by Dr Rajwant Singh, the founder and chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education, at his Potomac, Maryland, home. Full Article at Rediff
    the document on outsourcing was titled 'Hillary Clinton, D-Punjab,' after an incident when Hillary Clinton was in India and she jokingly told a local official that should be a title because of her ongoing political interest in many things Indian.
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
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'Punjabgate was not meant to hurt India'
  1. as soon as we got the first call from the Times we knew we were in trouble. Our press secretary, Bill Burton, called me with the news as I was landing in Chicago, and my stomach sank. My first reaction was, 'How on earth could they write a story off a paper that was clearly research, a background docume...
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  2. I was furious when I heard about it(the document)
    Barack Obama – Barack Obama SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  3. 'No, this was distributed to the senior message staff before it went to reporters,'I told him. None of us objected because it was a research document and we didn't expect that material to surface or be printed by the press.'
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  4. it was stupid and snarky; these research documents historically do not see the light of day, so communications staff doesn't treat them as though their language will be repeated. They are considered off-the-record and rarely get sourced. As a result, we were sloppy. But we got burned, and the New York T...
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  5. Obama was predictably furious when I talked to him after getting off the phone with Burton(At the time, it was Burton who contacted India Abroad and arranged for the interview with Obama). Worse that that, he was disappointed. 'This is the first time I am embarrassed by my campaign,' he said. 'How could...
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  6. we are taking corrective action to make sure that people understand how this could be potentially hurtful.I myself come from a multi-cultural background of promoting the most inclusive politics possible
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  7. not a memo that reflected my views or my attitudes, and didn't reflect my long-standing friendship with the Indian American community.
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  8. We had screwed up, and in a way that could be uniquely damaging. For other campaigns this would be a blip on the radar. But we had promised a different standard, and this was about as far as possible from the type of campaign we had pledged to run
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago
  9. 'I never want this to happen again' making sure I had it clear. 'I want controls in place and I want you to take personal responsibility for it. I don't care what the other campaigns are doing. We can't use that as a standard. Get control of it or I won't allow us to send anything but our schedule out t...
    SOURCE: Rediff 3 weeks ago

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