Posted on 02/26/2008 10:24:42 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative
1) The Clinton campaign is accused of circulating a photo of Barack Obama wearing Somali garb on a visit to Africa, and declines to deny that someone on the campaign may have been responsible.
2) The Clinton campaign says that, regardless, there's nothing wrong with Obama's wearing that clothing, and that it's absurd to call it "divisive."
1) On "Morning Joe," Hillary supporter Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones says that the Clinton campaign would not "condone" the circulation of such a photo, and that "I would not personally have done it." But she adds,
2) "I have no shame, or no problem, with people looking at Barack Obama in his native clothing, in the clothing of his country." [itals mine] For any dim enough to have missed her implication, seconds later she brings up peoples' right to wear "the clothing of their nation" yet one more time. (Video below)
At this point, it seems to me there are really only two plausible interpretations: Either Stephanie Tubbs Jones is an imbecile, and the Clinton campaign is enormously unlucky that it keeps looking as though they're trying to paint Obama as an exotic, probably Muslim foreigner. Or the Clinton campaign is trying to paint Obama as an exotic, probably Muslim foreigner, and they think they can get away with the smear as long as they add, "not that there's anything wrong with that."
At this point, I'm afraid I know which I believe.
Yes, and it’s more entertaining than any movie I have seen since 300.
Dukakis and Kerry.....Bookend liberal flameouts!
Very revealing for her, as Obama’s native garb is for him.
That’s great. You’ve got me laughing hard.
The African garb is a non-issue. Odinga, the islamo-fascist Kenyan cousin for whom Senator Obama actively campaigned and who is responsible for the muslim terror in Kenya since the lost election, is the issue.
Bingo!
Brilliant. LooterGuy is a particularly nice touch.
Gee, whatever happened to the picture of John McCain wearing an Indian headdress and of Juan McCain wearing a sombrero?
Now THAT was an intentionally planted talking point! Case closed — this is no accidental remark.
Here’s my theory. Earlier in the campaign, there was a tendency for pre-vote polling to show Obama in the lead, but the actual voting gave Hillary the win, i.e., in New Hampshire.
People assigned the reason that the dem voters were uncomfortable about race, but were lying about it to the pollsters.
Now that discomfort has disappeared.
And so Hillary’s campaign is trying to jingo it back up — to remind the voters that “he’s african”.
“The African garb is a non-issue. Odinga, the islamo-fascist Kenyan cousin for whom Senator Obama actively campaigned and who i Gs responsible for the muslim terror in Kenya since the lost election, is the issue.”
You got that straight! All I can hope is the McCain people will seize on this, and be glad Hillary didn’t use this issue which is 1,000% more inflammatory. Google “Obama Odinga” and “Odinga sharia” if you want proof of this.
Odinga’s followers locked 50 Christians inside a church and burned them to death, among other atrocities, right after the election.
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