Clinton campaign defends actions, says Obama should be ashamed if they find the picture divisive

maximusveritas

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:00 PM
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Clinton campaign defends actions, says Obama should be ashamed if they find the picture divisive

Edited on Mon Feb-25-08 01:11 PM by maximusveritas

Here's the response from Maggie William, Clinton's campaign manager:

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.

Note that there is no denial that the campaign was spreading this photograph. Instead there is a weak defense of the smear, arguing that there was nothing wrong about sending out the photo.

It reminds me of the people who call Obama "Barack Hussein Obama" and then act all innoncent when they get called on it. "It's just his name. Why are you Obama supporters ashamed of his name?" The photo is simply a continuation of the attempts to smear Obama with the Muslim label. First came the emails (which were also spread by campaign staffers), then the comments about him going to a madrassa, and now this.

The defense on this board appears to be that the photo is an old one, having appeared in the National Enquirer. Somehow that's supposed to absolve the Clinton campaign any blame for trying to spread this picture to a larger and more mainstream audience. At least this defense isn't offensive like the one from the Clinton campaign.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:03 PM
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1. Did he wear that garb or not? Was it photoshopped?

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maximusveritas

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:08 PM
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3. Yes, it's real. He was on a trip to Somalia and so he wore their traditional garb

as everyone else does.

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wildflowergardener

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:03 PM
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2. photo

I just saw this news article.

What would be the reason the Clinton campaign had to be circulating the photo if they did not intend it to be divisive?

Meg

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housewolf

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:15 PM
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5. That's the question of the day, isn't it?

Why indeed?

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L0oniX

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:15 PM
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4. Gee ...does this picture count?

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WillYourVoteBCounted

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:19 PM
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6. DUPE thread. I think we are up to about 16-17 photo threads now

You guys are cloggin up the GDP with this same shit.

Put it on one thread.

Its meant to distract you from the fact that Clinton is losing, but you
havent figured it out.

Here are at least 12 other bullshit threads before I stopped counting

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maximusveritas

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:25 PM
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8. Fair enough; I hadn't seen one with the Clinton response

but it looks like there was one. I'll

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BuyingThyme

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Mon Feb-25-08 01:24 PM
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7. The key to understanding this racist statement is

the part where they clearly ask readers to ponder the difference between Barack wearing the garb and Hillary wearing the garb.

You don't write something like that if you simply want to disassociate yourself from the discussion.

Go away Hillary!

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