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TRIBES RAGE AT HILL KENYAN BIGS: COME CLEAN IN PIX SMEAR
NY Post ^ | February 29, 2008 | GEOFF EARLE

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drudge; hillary; husseinobama; kenya; obama; somalielder
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Don't mess with Kenya.


1 posted on 03/01/2008 6:56:08 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Don’t print pictures of us! And don’t print our middle names!


2 posted on 03/01/2008 6:59:27 AM PST by Steely Tom (Steely's First Law of the Main Stream Media: if it doesn't advance the agenda, it's not news.)
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To: COUNTrecount

What a bizarre headline. Are they trying to win a Creative Garbling contest?


3 posted on 03/01/2008 7:00:27 AM PST by Tax-chick (If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't shoot! It might be Wednesday!)
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To: COUNTrecount

If you don’t want to see naked pictures of yourself appear anywhere ... don’t have any taken.

Same rule applies here.


4 posted on 03/01/2008 7:00:27 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: COUNTrecount
"We have been offended, and we cannot afford to just watch and stay silent."

Then talk to the jerk in the photo, pinhead.

5 posted on 03/01/2008 7:00:29 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: TLI
Then talk to the jerk in the photo, pinhead.LOL.
6 posted on 03/01/2008 7:02:55 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I simply love the title to this NY Post article. It summons back sounds of jungle drums and Tarzan bellowing on the vine.


7 posted on 03/01/2008 7:03:21 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: COUNTrecount

they were offended? At least they don’t look like a grown man in great big diaper.


8 posted on 03/01/2008 7:03:29 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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To: COUNTrecount
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LOOK... it's TouristSenator!!!
It shows up in more places than TouristGuy,
only with less style and substance...
she's Vaporware, just an empty crusty.
(Please spread me around like the parasite that i am...)
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9 posted on 03/01/2008 7:04:50 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: COUNTrecount

Harbinger of things to come if “He Who Must Not Be Criticized” Obama is elected POTUS.


10 posted on 03/01/2008 7:04:52 AM PST by LucyJo
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To: COUNTrecount
again, the story is within the story. why is it a "smear" to call someone a muslim? why is it "fearmongering" to use the would-be president's middle name?

I feel like I'm in one of those dreams, yelling and no one's hearing...

11 posted on 03/01/2008 7:04:59 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (the model prescribes the required behavior. disincentives ensure compliance.)
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To: Mark was here

Yeah. Like those photos of a future Republican president running about in a Nazi uniform. Fair game. Nothing prejudicial intended. Context be damned.


12 posted on 03/01/2008 7:05:17 AM PST by Norman Conquest (My old man taught me two things: Mind own business, and always cut cards.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Now those are CANKLES!


13 posted on 03/01/2008 7:05:51 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: LucyJo

He will never get that far.


14 posted on 03/01/2008 7:07:29 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: COUNTrecount

Ha Ha So much for her “superiority” in foreign affairs! LOL


15 posted on 03/01/2008 7:08:34 AM PST by wastoute
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To: COUNTrecount
Wouldn’t the correction reaction be to ask, “How can anyone be so small minded as to find anything wrong with those pictures?” Sort of my reaction to them.

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.

16 posted on 03/01/2008 7:11:23 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The women got the vote and the Nation got Harding.)
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To: COUNTrecount

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.


17 posted on 03/01/2008 7:11:58 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: wastoute

OK the Queen has already teed of Kenya. What nation is next?
I have a pool started.


18 posted on 03/01/2008 7:12:45 AM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: COUNTrecount; Fred Nerks
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are they going to complain about this, too?

19 posted on 03/01/2008 7:14:46 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Steely Tom

Why do the heathens rage?


20 posted on 03/01/2008 7:15:30 AM PST by mathurine
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