Let there be no mistake: Clinton campaign leaked this photo to try to prove Obama is a muslim

[Tropics_Dude83]

Let there be no mistake. The Clinton campaign as it did with Billy Shaheen in 2007 in New Hampshire regarding alleged drug use, as it did with Andrew Cuomo's "shuck and jive comment", as it did with Robert Johnson's "while he was doing something in the hood" comment is playing dirty Rovian politics at it's finest.

It just hit me. Her operatives (and she has been proven as the one to start the Obama is a muslim e-mail smear back in February 2007 BTW) are desperate. They know that they are facing imminent defeat. So, a democrat A DEMOCRAT is playing the patriotism/weak on terror/unpatriotic card.

There are NO words to even begin to express my disgust with the most slime-ridden campaign of modern american presidential politics, the Clinton family.

This photo was leaked to try to convince people that Obama is a muslim. That's what Hillary Clinton wants people to believe.

And I am disgusted.

[Colobo]

1. It's obvious, man. Why in the world would the leak it if not for that?

[Yurem2008]

2. She is revolting

I hope that this convinces OH and TX to reject her and her ugly campaign

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. Did he not pose for that picture? Was it photoshopped?

What is revolting is blaming Hillary for Obama's bad judgment for having a photograph like that in the first place.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Leaked? That photo has been around for a long time.

[JackORoses]

18. why did Hillary staffers send the photo to reporters?

[The_Casual_Observer]

22. Why not send it. Was it photoshopped? Did he renounce it?

Was he forced to take it? Is it false?

Or are you all embarrassed by it?

[JackORoses]

27. Why send it? What is the reason? I would really like to hear this.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

4. why are you playing into it with this 13th dupe thread started on this subject

this is a distraction meant to keep people's minds off of the fact that she is
losing.

You are helping her by starting the 13th dupe thread on this topic in one day.

[maddiejoan]

5. They leaked it?

It appeared in a National magazine on Feb 4 with a circulation of 3 million people.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4759365&mesg_id=4759365

[Tropics_Dude83]

The examiner is no better than Weekly World News

It's a tabloid. Also, Clinton gets no passes in my mind about ANYTHING after Clinton's "Jessie Jackson", Cuomo's, Johnson's and Shaheen's comments.

[maddiejoan]

11. Yeah more crap

from Obama's campaign cherry picked to unfairly smear Hillary as a racist.

I'm not impressed.

[JackORoses]

23. Hillary is demonstrating herself a closet racist all by her lonesome

Sure, she is fine with racial equality as long as it doesn't stand between her and what she wants.

But if it does, then no racist holds are barred.
She is falling back on the old tricks that have served white supremacists for decades.

Damn her for her selfish short-sightedness.

[maddiejoan]

25. slime merchant

that's all your candidate is.

[JackORoses]

28. ex-candidate

That is all that Hillary has become.
Enjoy.

[maddiejoan]

29. Really?

Because I think she's still in it.

[JackORoses]

32. We still see the light of ancient stars that long ago went Supernova

She has exploded over the past week since Wisconsin.

It will take a little time for the dust to settle.
But when we look back later, this will be pinpointed as the end of the Clinton Dynasty.

[maddiejoan]

34. I like the poetry.

You should do more of that :)

I'm serious.

[maddiejoan]

14. and watch it --

I used to be the Art Director for Weekly World News ;)

Our paper had a different feel

[Tom Rinaldo]

19. Almost 3 million Americans read it which is almost 3 million more Americans

than read internal emails between some Clinton staffers, when Drudge isn't up to his divisive much raking attempts to drive wedges between Democrats. The fake outrage from Obama's campaign is throwing fuel onto the fire and helping make sure another 50 million Americans see that photo. If he was worried about being seen that way you would think he could have commented on a mass media stories that post it under a headline "Obama's Al Qaeda Link". That would not have helped him attack Clinton though. Politics of Hope. Yeah, right.

[Tennessee Gal]

6. Leaked? I saw this photo weeks, if not months, ago.

I had no problem with it.

This is ridiculous.

[melody]

7. The picture has been around for awhile -- Drudge is ugly enough all on his own

I doubt the Clinton campaign needed to participate.

[Tennessee Gal]

10. Thank you. Finally a sane Obama supporter.

[melody]

12. I don't see any hysteria from the majority of Obama supporters

I see a handful of frenzied people but there are the more foaming-at-the-mouth Hillary folk, too.

This is just Drudge doing his stuff.

[Big Blue Marble]

9. Not exactly to prove it, but to imply it.

The picture will easily be used to advance the narrative that see he really is the Muslim Manchurian candidate.
They know this;we know this and Hillary supporters here know this.

I am very disappointed that so many of them defend this trash political tactic.

[Tom Rinaldo]

13. How can you "leak" a photo that already was published in a national newspaper

with a circulation of almost 3 millioin two weeks ago? Obama didn't care then, he couldn't drum up fake outrage against Clinton over that.

Obama is happy to make sure that 100 million more people get to see that photo by acting like Clinton somehow wounded him if it helps him steal some votes from her.

[Tropics_Dude83]

15. And to prove I'm not a lunatic

Official statement from Obama campaign manager:

Statement on Drudge Photo from Obama Campaign Manager 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,” said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

[Tom Rinaldo]

20. It proves I'm not a lunatic in seeing how the Obama campaign

is willing to use every tactic in the swiftboat book.

[HeraldSquare212]

16. They tried to paint him as a dangerous radical last week,

so this would just be par for the course.

[EmilyAnne]

17. How do you know this? If its true, I agree with everything you wrote. I just don't think we

should let ourselves be manipulated by the likes of Matt Drudge. We need to wait for the truth. Either way, Obama reacts well to attacks, so I'm sure he will handle this just fine. Its an easily explainable picture of something that all politicians do when they travel to other countries. Even I wore hijab when I was in Iran and in parts of Morocco.

I think we need to be honest with ourselves. We are quick to believe the worst about the Clintons right now and this can be manipulated to further divide our party. There are so many good people who support HRC and I understand why they are really hurt right now. I think we owe one another enough respect to calm down and wait for the truth to come out. I'm new here, so maybe I should just shut up. I just hate to see so many people, so many fellow Democrats, enraged.

[bigtree]

21. Let there be no mistake.

Some DUers are infatuated with right-wing propaganda because it serves their petty, narrow interests in tearing down their Democratic rivals in this election.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. What photo of Obama?...I always miss the good stuff

[MethuenProgressive]

26. It was in the National Enquirer (3 million readers) weeks ago. Why blame Clinton??

[onenote]

30. Let there be no mistake. You don't know this. You just think this.

Love,
An Obama supporter who is fed up with the sort of juvenile posting that passes as analysis on GD-P.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

31. You are disgusted, and apparently don't know the meanings of simple words

It is impossible to "leak" a published magazine article from August, 2006.


http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

[RememberWellstone]

33. You are mistaken

Believe what you will..it would'nt change for your support either way.