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Obama Camp Furious at Photo Release
by FOXNews.com ^ | February 25, 2008 | FOX News

Posted on 02/25/2008 7:36:51 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

Barack Obama’s campaign is expressing outrage at a new photo attributed to Clinton campaign sources that depicts the Democratic presidential candidate dressed in Somali garb.

The picture, which appeared at the top of Monday’s Drudge Report, says Clinton staffers circulated the 2006 photo over the weekend. It shows the Illinois senator fitted as a Somali elder, during his visit to northeastern Kenya that was part of a five-country tour of Africa.

“On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said.

“This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire, and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world,” Plouffe continued.

According to Drudge, the unnamed Clinton campaign staffer said: “Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC,” short-hand for the candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Shown the photo by reporters, Bill Clinton’s press secretary said the candidate’s spouse will not have any reaction.

(Excerpt) Read more at youdecide08.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; dhimmi; hillary; husseinobama; kenya; muslibs; nobama; obama; rats; salaami; salaamibahlonee; somalielder; somaligarb
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Obastard won't salute the American Flag or wear an American flag on his label. But he will dress up like a little al Queda buttboy in a heartbeat.

I am sorry,but give me Hillary any day. At least she is respectful to our flag.


161 posted on 02/25/2008 9:11:54 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: Aaron0617

162 posted on 02/25/2008 9:11:57 AM PST by Aaron0617
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To: chainsaw

I thin the difference is that she wears it to be a visitor he wears it because he be,lieves in it , he is the one who went to a madrassa and it was he who had a radical muslim father and grand father so much radical that he and his family moved to indonisia


163 posted on 02/25/2008 9:11:57 AM PST by manc
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To: Berlin_Freeper

BTW, this may show the wisdom of Fred Thompson’s “no funny hat” rule. :-)


164 posted on 02/25/2008 9:12:05 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: dinoparty

What does it mean “released by the Clinton campaign”? Surely they weren’t with him in Somalia, so they didn’t take the picture and hold it until now. The picture must be from some public record.

So at best, the Clinton campaign USED it in some press release.


165 posted on 02/25/2008 9:14:16 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: pissant

“It was excellent strategy to release that picture. Hopefully, they have more similar to that one.”

They should put it side-by-side with the photo of him not saluting the flag during the National Anthem.

Of course it will never sway his hard core supporters. They don’t care about America anyway.

It might however give those who are true patriots, yet simple, a wake-up call.


167 posted on 02/25/2008 9:15:26 AM PST by TFMcGuire (Either you are an American, or you are a liberal)
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To: george76

He looks right at home in that fez.


168 posted on 02/25/2008 9:15:53 AM PST by Beckwith (Dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Nah!
He’s just getting dressed up as “Sambo”, so’s he can chase that tiger around a tree!


169 posted on 02/25/2008 9:16:12 AM PST by aShepard
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To: CharlesWayneCT

what I have been saying for ages

you know what you would get with clinton even though I don’t want her but this barack hussein obama scares me

if I was more suspicious I would have thought that the man has been groomed for the presidency and is getting into the most powerful position in the world to ruin us

I even saw one person onhere believe it or not saying they don’;t have a preoblem with him being raised a muslim, him going to a madrassa, him his father and his grandfather so radical that they moved to Indonisia etc etc

barack hussein obama scares me to hell


170 posted on 02/25/2008 9:17:56 AM PST by manc
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To: chainsaw
I attended two catholic schools for 6 years and I am still not a catholic.

This is the central point: though there is little doubt that Senator Obama attended a nominally Christian church (the term used in its loosest sense) there is, as far as I know, no record of him having gone through a baptism, confirmation or other rite of acceptance into the church.

If he did not, or if that "church" does not have such a procedure or ritual, then Obama has never formally renounced the Muslim faith and forsworn the shahada.

When I was a kid, the church I attended used to put on a seder meal to celebrate Passover as part of their Passion Week events. One of the few Jewish families who lived in our small town used to be the church's guests of honor at these and lead the seder. Absent any proof to the contrary, Senator Obama has no more stopped being a Muslim for attending some services at a "Christian" church than that family stopped being Jewish for attending those seders.

171 posted on 02/25/2008 9:19:51 AM PST by Heatseeker (To err is human, but to really screw up it takes the Berkeley City Council)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
I thought he meant this one:


172 posted on 02/25/2008 9:22:55 AM PST by Diamond
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To: TFMcGuire

I’ve been shouting for ages about that

why just why hasn’t clinton gone after him for his racist church, hiim not saluting the flag nor will he wear an American pin, even his wife has said she is not proud or wasn’t until her husband might get into power

we still don’t know if he is a muslim, that church he goes to is not along the lines of a christian church but of a place where black racist go and talk about Africa and how the white man is bad

clinton should have been doing all this a long time ago
obama might have many dems, loads of young students(who are short of common sense anyway) maybe might have some republicans fooled but no way is this person here fooled into thinking of wanting him to win

The man hates this country, won’t pleadge his love for this country but to africa and was a muslim not too long ago

though I suspect he still is


173 posted on 02/25/2008 9:23:33 AM PST by manc
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Ya know, if Barack ‘Pol Pot 2.0’ Obama wins the nomination, I really don’t see Hillary being his veep. Certainly not after this.


174 posted on 02/25/2008 9:25:46 AM PST by ClaudiusI
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wow — Hillary is really getting desperate. Trotting out a photo of a politician dressing up in local garb in a customary gesture of respect as if it had some eeeeevil significance is plumbing new depths of absurdity even for the Clintons.


175 posted on 02/25/2008 9:26:12 AM PST by steve-b (Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. --RAH)
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To: Heatseeker

I still believe he is still a muslim and thaty church he goes to is hardly a christian one
it’s just a place where black racists go and put down the white man and this country, they all pledge their love and hearts to africa and not to America as they believe this country is bad

OH yes he wants change, to bring in and open the borders to african muslims, so they get more of a stronghold in politics as they know they can’t win military wise


176 posted on 02/25/2008 9:26:21 AM PST by manc
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To: steve-b

she should have used this and the photos of obama not saluting the flag also the racist anti white anti american place he goes to

I hope some people realise that this is not just about wearing a traditional dress but more to the point his upbringing as a muslim, his never saying he is not a muslim, his wanting to have an islamic conference straight away with America and all islamic nations including Iran

good for clinton I hope some wake up and see the danger of voting for this man


177 posted on 02/25/2008 9:29:11 AM PST by manc
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To: Beckwith

Have you seen this ?

IN 52 SECS WHY BARACK OBAMA CANNOT WIN A GENERAL ELECTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl32Y7wDVDs


178 posted on 02/25/2008 9:30:02 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: naturalized

Don’t keep me in suspense, then. Help me out.


179 posted on 02/25/2008 9:30:36 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: manc

not forgetting his going to a madrassa and his radical islamic father and grand father so much so they left this country to live in a sialmic country


180 posted on 02/25/2008 9:30:44 AM PST by manc
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