(Delete please - double posted) Clinton's response to the day's Drudge (Obama photo in Somali garb)

[BobbyVan]

The Clinton campaign puts out a response from Maggie Williams, which doesn't respond to the question of whether a staffer was circulating the photo of Obama in Somali garb, but takes issue with the Obama campaign's embrace of the issue:

Enough.

If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.

This is nothing more than an obvious and transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to decry.

We will not be distracted.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Clintons_response_the_days_Drudge.html

[gaiilonfong]

1. Boy Maggie is really working out well....NOT

OK flame me, but Clinton is now officially a wingnut HAG!
If her campaign can try and smear an African american man to be a muslim by a pic, then I can call her a HAG......

[papau]

2. a bit pathetic are the Obama folks to deny Obama's smear/play the race card/lie campaign

or that those "left" ideas are per Obama "on the table" to trade for GOP love and changing the atmosphere in DC.

The best part of Obama's campaign was Obama stopping discussion of his lack of political ability to get left type victories of any size - just by playing the race card and getting 24/7 discussion of the "race card" - all by using his folks to say they saw racial undertones in comments by Clinton supporters - while he let it boil for a few weeks until he finally said the Clintons were not racists (not noting anything they had accomplished for blacks - like better jobs/income) but then claiming Hillary should be faulted for lack of control of all who support her - only 4 weeks later when he unleashed a few slurs/smears via supporters he claimed it was silly to assume anyone could control their supporters.

The walk on water sale via a GOP organizations/corporate media that has had its emails explaining its support of Obama as an attempt to get the weaker candidate printed on DU many times seems to work well with the men that are afraid of a women in authority.

As to THE PHOTO -Here is a link to a conservative blog that contains a photo of the page from the February 4th 2008 National Enquirer smear story about Barack Obama that contained the picture of him in traditional African garb:

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-wore-muslim-ge...

The story was titled:

"Obama's Shocking Al Qaeda Link"

Here are the circulation figures that the National Enquirer releases about their rag:

"Place a classified ad in the National Enquirer. This weekly tabloid has excellent circulation at 2,760,000. Ad is placed in the classified area of the magazine under the appropriate category. Certain restrictions apply, and ads must meet the approval requirements of the National Enquirer. Circulation: 2,760,000."

http://www.nationwideadvertising.com/naten.html

Do you think an internal Clinton staff email discussing the photo just broke this news to American voters?

[BuyingThyme]

4. She's now a racist. Don't stoop to her level

by calling her a hag. That's somewhat sexist.

She's a racist.

[BuyingThyme]

3. Hi BobbyVan. Welcome to DU!

I wouldn't worry too much about posting dupes in the forum right now.

I think Hillary's racist campaign should get all the attention we can give it.

:hi: