Here are reproductions of the two Nevada fliers issued by the Obama campaign:

not only are democrats racists according to Obama, but right wing haters should screw up our primary so that we get a nominee who is not supported by the majority of his own party.

Obama is going to have a tough time in those closed primaries that only allow Registered Democrats to vote on. About half the states on Feb 5 only allow Democrats to participate.

oh give me a break...Republiclintons

...I'll be your sponsor.

Pretty sad - will destroy his political career

I know all those who responded so far are Hillary supporters but I don't see a problem with this.

This is politics and if a state has an open primary then this is what people will do.

Those independent voters made a difference in the Presidential general election in 1980, 1984, 1988, 2000 and 2004. Being a big-tent party isn't that bad of an idea.

and you think the Clinton supporters law suit in Nevada is any different, maybe in tactic but not in strategy?

ABC News has contacted the precinct captain, and they are in possession of scanned copies of the fliers.

ABC News

Did you guys know that Obama actually didn't make that flyer.  That was made by someone who just wanted Obama elected.  Obama has no knowledge of this flyer.

This is hilarious:

Buchanan told ABC News that after leaving about 100 of the fliers in mail slots and doors yesterday he realized the message he was sending was "negative."

"This is not Obama," he says he thought to himself.

So after dropping off around 100 fliers calling on Hillary-haters to change their registration for a day, Obama's precinct captain suddenly realizes how wrong it is to make such a negative appeal.

What a touching story.  I'm reminded of Mike Huckabee telling the press about his courageous decision not to run that negative ad in Iowa, even as he showed it to all of them.

You guys can't get enough Obama bashing in in a day can you? A year ago you all thought Clinton was a Republican in disguise, and now Obama is? I swear, I'm embarassed to be a Democrat after what I see some of you guys write on here.

Why in the world should Obama get a pass on something people associated with his campaign do? None of the other candidates do.

This was actually started by a group of Obama activists in Florida in about February of 2007 who kept hearing folks tell them that they liked Obama but were registered as Independents or Republicans.  In fact, they started using the word "Obamacrat" and did so trying to mobilize his supporters in Florida.  While I am a registered Democrat and have been since the day I turned 18, I know the folks who got this started and I can pledge to you that they are good solid Democrats.  By all means, they want people to maintain their registration as Democrats, but it was not an end-all.  As far as who is running the operation in Nevada I have no idea, but I think this is an incredibly intelligent move by Obama's campaign to harness all of his support in the state and across the country and use the electoral rules to his advantage.  

but I can't imagine spending 2 hours to go caucus for a Republican--I don't care how much I can't stand them. Wouldn't people have better things to do with their Saturdays? Especially in the middle of the day? Do people even Republicans hate Hillary that much that they would give up the middle of their Saturday to stand in a room to caucus for Obama? This distribution of the flyer seems really dumb.

I love this. Obama is bringing more to the party every caucus.  Of course, its tremendously threatening to the Hillary-bots.

I feel sorry for you clueless dweebs who cannot think outside the box.  Obama finds ways to work with the rules, Hillary-bots find ways to whine, bitch, moan and complain.  Hillary and her supporters are unable to think creatively.

Gosh, if they can't beat Obama fair and square, what will she do with a real problem?

You get someone to come to your side one step at a time.

This is brilliant.

"Buchanan says the Obama campaign didn't know about his flier. "I've been trying to reach them today, but Obama's in Reno today so it's been tough to reach them," he says.

Neither the Obama nor Clinton campaigns commented to ABC News."

The guy doesn't work for the campaign does he?  No, he doesn't.  He volunteered to do his precinct. Why would you repeat this as done personally at the direction of Obama?  Why is your post so fact free?  This is sooo far behind the curve over at Salon they're already laughing.  http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/i ndex.html

"The answer from Buchanan: Nothing's "going on" with Obama, because the flier was his effort and his alone."

Man, you gotta do at least a bare minimum fact check.

Via The Page:  http://thepage.time.com/

Obama spokesman Burton on the flier: "We've learned that one individual who volunteers for the campaign was making the flyer and we've instructed him to stop creating and distributing it. But make no mistake, we want as many independents and Republicans to become Democrats and help to build a new governing majority in this country."

You don't want them to become Democrats: you want them to help you defeat Sen. Clinton.

I do not live Obama.

Is anyone else as concerned as I am about how divisive this has all become?
I had heard Obama was all about bringing everyone together, but certainly not in this way???
I am also increasingly alarmed by certain types of people Obama is attracting with his campaign. A certain level of fanaticism, militantism.
I think the above cited tactic, even if not campaign sanctioned, is representative of a far greater problem. People in this country are angry and frustrated and are using their fervor for their candidate to pour those emotions into.
By remaining vague, Obama becomes an empty vessel where discontented Americans can pour their individual hopes and dreams, in addition to their angst. Potentially very dangerous territory.As many of these followers ultimately find out that Obama was not who they had erroneously thought he was, by way of their own projections.
You can not sustain being "all things to all people" it is a strategy that is doomed to fail.

People are brushing off the Nevada flyer as being an isolated thing, unknown to the Real Campaign, and quickly stopped. But www.obamaflorida2008.com has had this thing up since April. Their home page now just has a "performing updates" message, so better archive their "Dem for a Day" before it disappears. I'm circulating the Google cache which will take longer to disappear. Here are tinyurls for the Google cache:

http://tinyurl.com/24pvlg

http://preview.tinyurl.com/24pvlg

Quoting from the Google cache "as retrieved on Nov 30, 2007 02:11:00 GMT"

WANNA BECOME AN OBAMACRAT?!!!
By Obama Florida 2008
Published: April 24, 2007
....
But this is not about some "hard sell" to recruit voters to become permanent Democrats. Not at all. After the primary, you may re-register back to the
Republican or Libertarian parties, or revert to your previous status as an Independent!
....
But we're finding that up to 20 percent of Obama supporters are registered Republicans.
In fact, during the first couple of weeks in April, some 150 Republicans indeed became "Democrats for a Day." You might call them "Obamacrats!"