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Obama Pushback On the Drudge Photo Flap
ABC News ^ | 2/25/2008 | Sunlen Miller and Steve Portnoy

Posted on 02/26/2008 11:01:21 AM PST by Conservative Mother

Obama Pushback On the Drudge Photo Flap

Share February 25, 2008 6:33 PM

ABC News' Sunlen Miller and Steve Portnoy Report:

In a radio interview with WAOI in San Antonio, Sen. Barack Obama commented about the photo on the website Drudge Report showing him dressed in traditional Somali attire.

"Everybody knows that whether it's me or Senator Clinton, or Bill Clinton, that when you travel to other countries they ask you to try on traditional garb that you have been given as a gift," he told WAOI, "The notion that the Clinton campaign would be trying to circulate this as a negative on the same day that Senator Clinton was giving a speech about how we repair our relationships around the world is sad. We are going to try to stay focused on what will make a difference in our foreign policy, including bringing the war in Iraq to an honorable end."

He noted that he believes Americans are saddened when they see "these kind of politics."

"The notion that they would try to use this to imply in some way that I'm foreign, I think is, you know, unfortunate," Obama later told Dallas/Ft. Worth radio station WBAP.

"These are the kinds of political tricks and silliness you start seeing at the end of campaigns," Obama said in an interview with the ABC Radio affiliate.

In addition, Obama campaign surrogates pushed back in a conference call this morning with reporters.

General Gration, one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors, was on the trip with Obama in 2006 to Kenya where he donned the garb.

"We try on Christmas gifts sometimes that we may not want to keep but we do it to be a grateful recipient," Gration explained, "Barack Obama did what any leader would do, accept the gift, hospitality and token of friendship."

Susan Rice, anther top advisor to the campaign, recalled that President Clinton had done the same thing in his administration and said this is "ironic" timing on the day that Senator Clinton gives a foreign policy speech.

Rice called the picture's notoriety on Drudge to have the "very intention to be divisive," and says it promotes the idea that that the culture of other parties of the world are worthy of ridicule.

Both surrogates said they have yet to hear a denial from the Clinton campaign that they pushed this photo to Drudge.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drudge; election; hillary; husseinobama; obama; somalielder; somaligarb
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1 posted on 02/26/2008 11:01:27 AM PST by Conservative Mother
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2 posted on 02/26/2008 11:02:47 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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Susan Rice, anther top advisor to the campaign, recalled that President Clinton had done the same thing in his administration and said this is "ironic" timing on the day that Senator Clinton gives a foreign policy speech. Rice called the picture's notoriety on Drudge to have the "very intention to be divisive," and says it promotes the idea that that the culture of other parties of the world are worthy of ridicule.

The Obamarama people are all over this one. Perhaps he took it personal.

3 posted on 02/26/2008 11:05:07 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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Bo Snerdley spanked Obama for "bad form" and acting "dissed"..."yo, this is what the big dogs do, yo, you were in the homeland with your peeps...and yo, Hillary, if you get out of that bumble bee outfit, you might keep your man at home..."
4 posted on 02/26/2008 11:05:31 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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5 posted on 02/26/2008 11:06:47 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Conservative Mother

Why so sensitive Hussein?

You`ll wear muslim garb butthere`s no way in hell

you`ll wear an american flag lapel pin or place your

hand on your chest during the national anthem.

You`re scum Hussein, SCUM.


6 posted on 02/26/2008 11:06:59 AM PST by Para-Ord.45
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Interestingly, I’ve traveled to 3 continents and 27 countries... AND, in none of the venues was I asked to don the traditional native dress even in Accra, Ghana and Togo.
7 posted on 02/26/2008 11:10:10 AM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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8 posted on 02/26/2008 11:10:22 AM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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McCain is afraid to call him Barack HUSSEIN Obama. He thinks its not nice. We are sunk. Many conservatives have questions about Hussein’s Isamic background. If McCain ignores this, he doesn’t deserve our votes.


9 posted on 02/26/2008 11:11:47 AM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Greg F

From “Sweetness & Light” re: New photo of Obama in Muslim Garb
http://sweetness-light.com/

And, if it is real, it is once again from the Associated Press.

For the record Mr. Obama is wearing a dashiki, which is apparently worn by Christians, Muslims, as well as followers of African traditional religions.

But his headgear seems to be a topi or kopiah or kippah, which is worn by Muslims.


10 posted on 02/26/2008 11:13:08 AM PST by Republican Red (The word "courage" is not in the liberal vocabulary)
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The elephant in the room that no one in the media wants to touch is that it’s not a “ridiculous clothing flap” or “foreign thing” it is a MUSLIM clothing flap.


11 posted on 02/26/2008 11:14:41 AM PST by Norman Bates (Freepmail me to be part of the McCain List!)
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He noted that he believes politically correct Americans are saddened when they see "these kind of politics."

To tell you the truth Hussein, I love this infighting between you and the witch. What are you going to do when some dictator or terrorist calls you a name?????

12 posted on 02/26/2008 11:14:47 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("It may take another Jimmy Carter to get another Ronald Reagan". Rush Limbaugh Jan. 14, 2008)
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***”The notion that they would try to use this to imply in some way that I’m foreign, I think is, you know, unfortunate,”***

No Obama, if the implication was that you’re foreign then you can’t be elected President, it’s the implication that you’re Muslim.

13 posted on 02/26/2008 11:15:05 AM PST by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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I'm sure that Obama-Momma was at least PROUD of this photo.

This must have been the 'other time' that she has taken pride in something--since apparently even his election to the senate generated no pride in her.

14 posted on 02/26/2008 11:16:37 AM PST by stockstrader
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I see his head covering is white because he has not made the hajj...


15 posted on 02/26/2008 11:16:53 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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I see his head covering is white because he has not made the hajj...
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In both photos. Funny that he would be so particular.


16 posted on 02/26/2008 11:19:33 AM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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He noted that he believes politically correct Americans are saddened when they see "these kind of politics."

Well, Hussein DOES have a point there.

It truly saddens me to see that there are enough 'nut-case' liberals in the democratic party to support a Marxist, with a muslim background--who takes no pride in this country.

So I guess that Hussein is 100% correct--it should sadden Americans everywhere that the democratic party has gone so totally loony--that someone like him could even be considered!!

17 posted on 02/26/2008 11:20:36 AM PST by stockstrader
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To: Republican Red

Malik Obama, older brother to Barack Obama, holds an undated picture of Barak, left, and himself, middle, and an unidentified friend in his shop in eastern Kenya.

From 2004 article Illinois Senate candidate's family in Kenya chose life in the slow lane

BTW Was Barack's father married to Malik's mother at the time he married Barack's mother? Malik is older than Barack.

18 posted on 02/26/2008 11:22:23 AM PST by syriacus (When NIU prof M Falkoff speaks, mayhem follows.. like the riots after his Koran-abuse tales)
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To: Conservative Mother

LOL... Clinton is getting this kind of flack from the Obama Zombies over something like this?

Amazing how thin skinned those Obama Zombies are.. Is Obama really the Messiah and like Muhammad before him it is blasphemy in thier religion of worship that anyone try to make Obama something that he says he is not? So what happens when we call Obama something that he is LIBERAL... Is that going to meet with the same kind of Hysteria?


19 posted on 02/26/2008 11:23:14 AM PST by tomnbeverly (" And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon")
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I would think that the Obamadans would take PRIDE in that picture!!!

They should FLAUNT the fact that his name is HUSSEIN too.

Why don't they? /s

20 posted on 02/26/2008 11:28:59 AM PST by stockstrader
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