So let me get this straight....

[Catherine Vincent]

Obama supporters think it's the Hillary campaign that circulated the Obama photo?

[Zachstar]

1. Ok so has she denied it?

[merh]

4. yes

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


Oh and I think it was the right smear groups that circulated this in an effort to smear both camps - two birds with one photo, as it were.

[Shakespeare]

8. That's not a denial. n/t

[merh]

9. true it isn't

but the division is the story that has legs, HRC's campaign has a point about the image and I seriously doubt they did it.

I truly believe that the tactic was done by the right, the race card/muslim card gets nation wide attention and they didn't have to do a thing, they let HRC take the blame, the wackadoodles that believe shit like this have it and will circulate it all over and the damage is done. McCain's hands are clean.

It's just beginning and to go off all crazy over a photo, is just nuts. Have photos ready to send to your family of Bush in the Chinese garb, of him wearing whatever costume of the day is, have them of HRC, just make a whole lot of it.

Oh wait, that's already being done - the enquirer story is given legs

[DURHAM D]

2. My question - Why no photo of Obama in lederhosen?

He was the head of the Senate European Sub-Committee.

He seems to have done the wrong homework assignment.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. Why can't she just deny it, then?

[JustDavid]

5. BECAUSE

its just silly.

[Big Blue Marble]

6. They refuse to deny it.

If they did not do it, they would say so period.

[goldcanyonaz]

7. I bet it was the Obama campaign, they love to paint Hillary as the anti-christ.

They know their supporters would respond like rabid dogs to the photo, and blame the Clintons...

With the help of their beloved Drudge.