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| Catfight! Hillary, Obama trade shots on "Somali" photos |
| 2008-02-25 |
| Byron York, National Review The brouhaha of the day in the Democratic race is the photo, on the Drudge Report, of Barack Obama, during a 2006 visit to Kenya, trying on what Drudge calls a "Somali Elder" outfit. Maybe I'm wrong, but in the photo, Obama appears to be wearing khakis and a red polo shirt, plus the African garb. Anyway, Drudge attributed the "smear photo" to the Clinton campaign. So the Obama campaign fired away with this statement from manager David Plouffe: 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. 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. Now the Clinton campaign has fired back with this statement from campaign manager Maggie Williams: Enough. Fellow NR-er Jim Geraghty comments: Hmm... Two weird things in this Team Hillary statement, about the picture of Obama in Somali garb. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #14 ION, INTERFAX-AVN/WAFF.com > RUSSIAN MILITARY ANALYST: USA CAN ATTACK RUSSIA 2012-2015, via ADVANCED/SUPERTECHS + Russ-annihilating NON-NUCLEAR PEEMPTIVE STRIKES. Article - USA also desires to split Russia into THREE REGIONS > EASTERN, which will ge given to Euro = EU; CENTRAL, which the USA wants for itself; + WESTERN, includ Russ FAR East-Siberia, which will be given to CHINA [and JAPAN?]. LOOKS LIKE RUSS-CHIN'S "WAR NOT ONLY POSSIBLE BUT DESIRED" ANTI-US WAR IS NOT SCHEDULED FOR 2014 - 2018 - 2020/2022 ANY MORE??? A diiileeemmma for a new POTUS OBAMA, POTUS HILLARY, or POTUS MCCAIN. Once again, POST-PEARL HARBOR = AMER HIROSHIMA? > USA DECLARE WAR, or instead SEND A STRONGLY WORDED LETTER(S) OF PROTEST??? UNSC VOTE??? CANCEL THE OLYMPICS??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-02-25 20:42 |
| #13 If somebody has Muslims names, went to a Saudi sponsored Muslim school, his best friends are Muslims or just plain hate America, and Muslim terrorist are very open about their plans to destroy America. Explain to my why are you going to vote for him? Is political correct so valuable, that we have to risk everything on it, our Country and our lives? |
| Posted by: lena 2008-02-25 19:52 |
| #12 Joe, besides, B. Hussein's father was Kenyan, not Somali. Same continent, different country. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-02-25 19:37 |
| #11 Joseph, any photo that can be obtained showing Obama in 'moptop', propagates the 'fear mongering' among any folks who want any 'evidence' of the Muslim Connection Conspiracy. |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-25 19:19 |
| #10 Okay, I'll bite, whats wrong wid one's ancestral = continental heritage??? IMO THE PHOTO IN QUESTION IS NOT EXTRAORDINARY OR MALICIOUSLY GRAPHIC ENUFF TO BE LABELED AS "SMEAR". I see very little in itself to harm the Obama campaign. OTOH, AFRICAN CRISIS/TOPIX > article on how the ULTRA-RADICAL, ISLAMO-MARXIST NATION OF ISLAM suppors the Obama campaign, + similar for the PRO-SOVIET/COMIE WORLD WORKER'S PARTY, PROGRESSIVE, etc. vv MUGNIYA/MUGNIYEH. In addition, MANY ON THE NET ARE SPECUL THAT WWP, WPP, etc. WILL COME OUT IN SUPPOR OF OBAMA. Iff OBAMA wants to worry about something, its the last ^ above. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-02-25 18:43 |
| #9 Thankyou GK (#5)! Lets me know there are open minded people who can see through the 'fog of fear mongering'! The archive divers in the Hillary campaign obviously has someone(s) raking over the muck without first cleaning up her own 'backyard'. I would love to be the fly on the wall in the dark dank closet room, where the 'searcher' who says: "...This one, run with this one!", and then rush it over to Ms Williams for the 'green light', resides. |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-25 18:20 |
| #8 LiberalHawk - he may be asked to do the same with his church. That said, hard to believe 20,000 showed up to hear Farrakhan. Wow. |
| Posted by: Clem Sheck9754 2008-02-25 17:35 |
| #7 "Said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton: "Sen. Obama has been clear in his objections to Minister Farrakhan's past pronouncements and has not solicited the minister's support" Hes denounced Farrakhans statements. AFAIK, he hasnt actually said Farrakhan is a complete shit. That would cause pain in part of the african-american community. That may well be what is asked of Obama though. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2008-02-25 17:15 |
| #6 Is Bubba a Hindu in that pic or Carmen Miranda? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-25 15:49 |
| #5 How about this one? Or these:Bill the Hindu? The tribal elder. |
| Posted by: GK 2008-02-25 15:42 |
| #4 The photo was obviously divisive in that in the minds of a neutral observer, Obama 'looks' like a Muslim cleric, Imam, or Islamic 'official'. The Hillary camp knew that the submerged suspicions of some of the electorate would be heightened by uncertainty, thus promoting the 'fear mongering'. Obama's camp needs to accentuate this calculation; and dig up shots of Billy Boy donning international garb during his 8 years on foreign junkets. Hillary's camp didn't lay off the Obama speech issue until clips of Hillary using his phrases and clichés were shown. More obvious signs of desperation on the sinking 'Clintonic' Ocean liner. |
| Posted by: smn 2008-02-25 15:26 |
| #3 Mods - Please capture and save a copy of the subservient Sheik Hussein Obama in muslim costume. I've got this ugly gut feeling it can be used for years to come - or at least until the Marxist sob shuts RB down through a Demorcratic Party Fatwa. |
| Posted by: MarkZ 2008-02-25 15:02 |
| #2 And in more good news for Obama, it appears he's also mesmerized Calypso Louie... CHICAGO - In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better. The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator. "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed." Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father. "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall." Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics. Excuse me. Could you hand me my ten foot pole? Actually, make it the twenty footer... Said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton: "Sen. Obama has been clear in his objections to Minister Farrakhan's past pronouncements and has not solicited the minister's support." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-25 14:22 |
| #1 How cute. Diaper on the head and a dress |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2008-02-25 14:10 |
