Official distributes Obama 'black Hitler' claim

A Republican county clerk distributed to two employees an Internet blog posting referring to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "young, black Adolf Hitler." Johnson County Clerk Jill Jackson said Friday that she had apologized to the employees. One had complained to police. The employees, who had voted for Obama in the Democratic primary, discovered the printouts at their desks after returning from holiday weekend in September, sheriff's Deputy Doug Cox said in a police report made public this week. A surveillance video showed Jackson placing an item on one worker's desk, he said. Jackson told The Associated Press that she was merely passing along an item that already was circulating in the office.