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Gay Obama Backer Resigns After Clinton Scandal Comments

There's more trouble in Senator Barack Obama's campaign. Just days after Samantha Power's 'monster' resignation, LGBT Council member Maxim Thorne has stepped down after sending an email blasting Hillary Clinton's 3am rhetoric and revisiting some past scandals:

At 3am, Hillary said she and Bill were in bed and she knows of all the calls a President gets at different times of the day and night. Really? So much involvement - so much togetherness. Where was she when Monica was having sex with Bill?

When Bin Laden was building Al Qaeda, Bill and she were fighting impeachment, fighting Paula Jones, fighting Katherine Wiley.

Please, we are going down a nasty road with a nasty, secretive and proven lying Clinton.

Politico reports that Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor distanced the candidate from Thorne, saying, "These comments have no place in this campaign." And now neither does Thorne.

Read the entire email, after the jump. Oh, and preemptive [sic].

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