Posted on 03/01/2008 6:56:05 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Angry tribal elders in Kenya are calling on Hillary Rodham Clinton to "clear her name" over any involvement in publication of photos of Barack Obama wearing a turban and African garb on a trip to his ancestral homeland.
The leaders are planning a protest in their community today, and are turning up the heat on the US government over the incident.
The photos appeared nationwide after they were published earlier this week on the Drudge Report Web site with a report that they had been circulated by Clinton staffers.
Obama aides blasted the Clinton campaign for "shameful, offensive fear-mongering."
The pictures show Obama wearing traditional Somalian garb on a 2006 visit to the Wajir region of Kenya, where his late father was born.
"The US government must apologize to us as a clan and the old man," Mohamed Ibrahim told Reuters, referring to a highly respected tribal elder who is also shown in the photos.
"We have been offended, and we cannot afford to just watch and stay silent."
He also said it was essential that Clinton "clear her name."
The Drudge Report said the photos had been forwarded by a Clinton staffer with an e-mail that said, "Wouldn't we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC [Hillary Rodham Clinton]?"
Obama has fought a whisper campaign by fringe elements who wrongly say he is Muslim and have even compared his name to Osama bin Laden's, as well as highlighted his middle name, Hussein.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Don’t print pictures of us! And don’t print our middle names!
What a bizarre headline. Are they trying to win a Creative Garbling contest?
If you don’t want to see naked pictures of yourself appear anywhere ... don’t have any taken.
Same rule applies here.
Then talk to the jerk in the photo, pinhead.
I simply love the title to this NY Post article. It summons back sounds of jungle drums and Tarzan bellowing on the vine.
they were offended? At least they don’t look like a grown man in great big diaper.
Harbinger of things to come if “He Who Must Not Be Criticized” Obama is elected POTUS.
I feel like I'm in one of those dreams, yelling and no one's hearing...
Yeah. Like those photos of a future Republican president running about in a Nazi uniform. Fair game. Nothing prejudicial intended. Context be damned.
Now those are CANKLES!
He will never get that far.
Ha Ha So much for her “superiority” in foreign affairs! LOL
Howie Carr’s advice to politicians holds: "Never put on a hat." Much less a loincloth.
General advice to politicians is never to be seen in clothing that anyone could find ridiculous.
When I saw that headline I guessed that it came from a low-iq rag such as the NY Post or NY Daily News.
Headlines should be in English.
OK the Queen has already teed of Kenya. What nation is next?
I have a pool started.
are they going to complain about this, too?
Why do the heathens rage?
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