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.
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I don’t think so, but I never thought Bill Clinton would get that far.
Re: your tagline, thank you for your service. I pray always for all our military and their families. God bless.
Really now, pray tell who did that?
Mr Ibrahim needs to go down and rent a copy of Shaka Zulu to find out how real Africans handle problems like this.
And The B. Hussein said be still my brothers and all the African voices were quited. Amen.
quited = quieted
Oh God, I love this. Keep it up. I hope the muzzies and their African enablers and subjects all line up with very vocal support for Obama. I hope it reminds America where this guys support really lies. Ask yourself WHY?
Then again so many of his supporters suffer from weapons-grade ignorance.
Thank You! I just lost my Godson cousin who was a door gunner on Huey’s in Vietnam. He had three of them shot down, on the last one he was the only one out. He died in his chair from a heart attack at the age of 59. They spit on people like him when they got back home.
This stuff is starting to get pathetically funny.
Obama and crew act as if these pictures were faked. They are real and there certainly is nothing wrong with Hillary, or anyone else, releasing them. Obama is mad because it shows his muslim side. I hate Hillary but she had every right to release these pics. This sort of thing fits right in with long standing political dirty tricks. Outrage over real pics is a very muslim type of outrage, in other words outrage over nothing. Obama supporters beware.
My heartfelt condolences to you and your family.
You don’t have to tell me how our Vietnam Vets were treated when they came home. I came of age in the sixties. I got a craw full of the left and their useful idiots back then, and I’ll never forget it. I can’t stomach them today.
That’s why I got tears in my eyes when I read what you wrote about your Godson cousin. I wish I could personally thank everyone who served.
The US government must apologize to us as a clan and the old man
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The US government has nothing to do with those pics.
Lots of weird things, I cannot find a video of Obama’s Senate swearing-in or the date of his parents’ wedding.
As to the picture what’s wrong with it? Is the guy ashamed of his (half) heritage as well as his middle name? Truths that must be suppressed? Cover-ups are always messier than coming out with the truth.
the muslim garb story, ...friends in all the wrong places...obama-odinga-alQaeda links, he’s got more to worry about than Hillary!
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It will be even more funny when Hillary apologizes to these reprobates.
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