Obama Camp Furious at Photo Release

by FOXNews.com ^ | February 25, 2008 | FOX News

[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.

[gathersnomoss]

As Republicans...McCain et al, continue to remain silent about the obvious, the good old US “is being taken over from within”. How do you think the Clinton's and Jerry were raised? One is a communist dictator want to be and the other IS a Muslim.

Will McCain state the obvious?

[george76]

[Izzy Dunne]

Thanks, but I’m not into that sort of thing.

[Brilliant]

Who woulda guessed that Hillary would stoop to baiting voting blocks like that?

[seoul62]

Why would he be angry at this simple photo - unless he has something to hide. If you are not ashamed of who you are, lay it out, for the whole world to see./Just Asking - seoul62.......

[Cobra64]

He can always circulate the pics of Hillary kissing Arafat’s ugly wife.

[dead]

He’s dressed like “The Little Drummer Boy.”

[naturalized]

WADR, you are misquoting Shakespeare.

[W04Man]

Here is much more conspiracy....and another scary photo...

[gathersnomoss]

I certainly “Hope” that his Muslim heritage bites him through his Muslim @$$. Or is that an un-PC subject? If so, the silence will be the downfall.

What change are we talking about, Jerry?

[Orange1998]

He is simply using the race card.

[montag813]

It shows the Illinois senator fitted as a Somali elder

Ah those wonderful Somalis! I'm sure Americans will have no problem with that, right?

[bkwells]

Hmm.. pot calling the kettle black?

[GQuagmire]

[No Dems 2004]

This should be a campaign photo for him!

[W04Man]

Now she can use this one in a campaign mailer..... NO SAVE IT FOR MCCAIN.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Gee, check these out of Bush with his Saudi Masters!

[KarlInOhio]

Mom, can I sit on Jane Fonda's antiaircraft gun?

Only if there's time after I'm done, Chelsea.

[CindyDawg]

lol. I had not seen that one.

[FastCoyote]

“Obama should have kept quiet and let Her Thighness self-destruct.”

Odd, isn’t it, that there is no claim that the photo is a photoshop. Hence his protest is that someone actually showed the truth and he didn’t like it.