Posted on 02/25/2008 7:36:51 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Barack Obamas 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 Mondays 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 weve 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 its 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: Wouldnt 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 Clintons press secretary said the candidates spouse will not have any reaction.
(Excerpt) Read more at youdecide08.foxnews.com ...
Obama Camp Furious at Photo Release
Yes, he was the subject when someone took the photo. What’s there to be upset about? Oh, I suppose it’s “taken out of context”. Well, dude, you were still in the photo. If the photo is real, tough. If it’s not, well then that’s another matter.
That is clearly a FAKE FOTO ! ! ! ! !
Doesn’t anyone else recognize that the Obananation isn’t carrying the obligatory Muslim “neck cutters” knife?
;-)
I too do not understand why such a thing would bother Barack.
Dear Lord, Dubya had his pic taken holding hands with some son of a camel Saudi guy. Somewhere on this thread there’s Hillary with an ugly scarf on her head.
What on earth is the Obama campaign’s problem?
I thought people where upset about pictures of themselves they are ashamed of.
This is his dukakis tank pic!
Tough Shitski!
It may provide the backlash that finishes her off. A lot of blacks look at that dress as their heritage and people here and in her campaign are laughing at their heritage. Show me one republican politician that will say something offensive about the manner of dress.
Yep. No one is safe if they stand between the Beast and the WH.
I am a little torn between two sides on this issue. On the one hand it does seem like a little more race baiting on Clinton’s part, but on the other it says something about the kind of CIC Obama would be. An American President should try to reflect American values and culture, but at the same time he/she shouldn’t be inflaming racial hatred in order to win an election.
This event just shows how important it is to elect neither of these two.
Obama should have just said, “Yeah that’s me in the picture, what’s the big deal?”
Hillary is really reaching here.
Watching her and her clintonoids self-destruct has given me the greatest taste of Schadenfreude since the Patriots went 18-1.
And cheers to you...
"On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world...."
The RATS have to find a new line. That 'everyone hates us' canard is absurd. They look ridiculous mouthing that as our problems with "old Europe" are gone with their old leaders. France; likes us. Germany; likes us. Great Britain; still likes us.
The only European countries openly po'd at us now are Russia and Serbia. And we brought the Serb problem on ourselves by legitimizing that Terrorist haven p*ssh*le of a 'country', Kosovo.
(Why Dubya is continuing with Klintoon's failed policy there is mind boggling)
He’s the 12th imam lol
oh my God, proof in this pic that you can wrap a towell around Chelsea’s face and the ugly still seeps thru
“Actually, there was nothing wrong with the Willie Horton ad.”
I know, but the RATS think it was racist and to show them they do the same thing is priceless. Showing that the RAT party is the modern day Willy Horton party will be great for weakening their support in the minority community.
Good point they are not claiming it was photoshoped. There was a few people here that thought it was photoshoped a few days ago.
Aunt Obima!
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