This photo is so cool.

[laststeamtrain]

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/obama_narrowweb__300x512,4.jpg

It tempers all the revival tent rhetoric.

It makes me think Obama may not be just another weasel in a 'business' suit.

I hate straight people.

Maybe Obama's different.

Hmmm.

Gotta think about this.

[rucky]

1. Thank you!

10000 posts about a photo, and somebody finally decides to show it.

[blogslut]

2. It's beautiful

A man willing to walk in the shoes of another.

[Caseman]

30. I think you're taking this a little too far...

...Obama has spent millions on his campaign. I would never call him the common man candidate by my definition.

[Faygo Kid]

3. You hate straight people?

Do you mean this in a sexual orientation way, and do you really mean that?

Pretty weird statement. Maybe you can clarify.

[blogslut]

6. It's an 80's thing

As in, "Repo Man"

[laststeamtrain]

16. Hey. I do like Alex Cox movies.

:hi:

[laststeamtrain]

8. Fair question. I mean in the '68 sense. Squares.

Xenophobic, 'Ozzie & Harriet', unhip, etc kind of way.

[Faygo Kid]

18. That's cool. Squares? That's one I haven't heard in awhile.

But I'm into that '68 thing. Worked for Clean Gene McCarthy, myself, as a high school junior.

Good tunes back then, man. Far out.

"Squares" goes back even further. To the time of the immortal Maynard G. Krebs, and his fearful quote, "WORK???!!!!???"



(The "G." stood for Walter.)

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I actually like the photo.

I don't know why some Obama supporters are up in arms about it.

[Barack_America]

9. *sigh*

Nobody is "up in arms" about the photo itself, but whether or not the Clinton campaign suggested Drudge promote it as a "Obama is a muslim" smear.

[Bucky]

13. I'm not up in arms, but to be fair it does look like he's about to grant 3 wishes

Drudge obviously cropped the magic lamp out.

[tekisui]

5. It is a harmless picture of a man in a costume.

It would only bother deep racists.

Who sent it to Drudge, I wonder? Surely that slimeball has the senders email.

[Donkeykick]

7. Look.

I'm voting for Hillary. But don't you think that these sort of things just rip the party apart? Seriously. :wtf:

(Thinking: I really could care less what his religious past is, if Hillary doesn't make it, I will be voting for this man.)

[Mik T]

11. I think he looks hot.

So do my Irish guy friends who wear kilts for St Patty's day. When you think about it, it's exactly the same thing.

[usregimechange]

10. Drudge said Clinton staffers gave it to him. Why would they do that?

[persistant]

34. Obama Trolls gave it to Drudge

They play similar pranks in our HRC blog.
They're probably thrilled it's getting so much attention.

[persistant]

35. Our HRC blog was just hacked

those Obama Elves are busy little bees.

[Little Star]

12. These are really cool too. See link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4762227&mesg_id=4762227

[goodgd_yall]

15. Not as cool as Obama's

I have to admit he looks good.

[NC_Nurse]

14. He looks wonderful and I've noticed he looks good in all the outfits I've

seen him in. He's just himself, natural, relaxed. Only uptight weasel RW'ers would be freaked
by some other country's native garb. I guess that is the audience the photo was meant to alienate
on Drudge's site.

[Redstone]

17. What you said. And furthermore, he does NOT look ridiculous wearing the outfit, like

bushyboy does when he tries to "go native" on his trips.

(PS: The "go native" slur was directed at bush, and NOBODY else.)

Redstone

[Cha]

27. "The outfits"..lol!

It's a big world out there and anybody can take advantage of wearing the native dress of different countries..and Obama does it with honor.

[Jawja]

19. And he's wearing it over his

t-shirt and pants, for gawd's sake. :eyes:

It's not like he's in that and that alone and dancing in some ceremony - not that it would be wrong or bad to do that, but to use THIS photo to try to portray him as a "radical muslin = terrorist" is grasping at straws.

I think he's kinda cute in it, anyway. After all, he does have a bi-cultural genealogy, does he not? And wouldn't he, as we all do, want to experience just a wee bit of his heritage? :shrug:

Such desperation.

[ohio2007]

20. Looks like he played dress up to please somebody

He really doesn't look like a happy camper.

..kinda has that Johnny Quest side kick look to him imo.


where the red ruby

/sarc

If he doesn't look Hindu then he looks more Indosian Muslim then Arab Muslim.

[jillan]

21. He should be proud of the picture - and tell everyone he is proud

instead of whining about it.

[Flabbergasted]

22. Wouldn't that be something. If he comes out and says: "Despite

my proud Christian and American tradition I feel that reaching out to those in other cultures is a necessary part of being president of the melting pot that is the United States of America."

I like it.

[jillan]

26. That would be wonderful - and a beginning to the end of the bsh dictatorship.

[Mik T]

37. Or rather, BECAUSE of my Christian and American traditions of tolerance and love for all people...

[mmonk]

38. Do you live in the US?

[Marie26]

23. Why is this picture a bad thing?

I don't understand.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. Look how it is being used .......

that's what makes it bad.... not the photo by itself

[Marie26]

36. Oh, that's bad

Horrible. They managed to get in every racist, xenophobic smear possible.

[Iktomiwicasa]

25. Far too many people in this country...

...have lost connections with their ancestral cultures. To really know who and what you are, it is helpful to know where your people came from. I think it is a good think Barack Obama has spent time in his ancestral land getting to know his folks.

[MzShellG]

28. I think so as well....

Barack was in Kenya visiting his African relatives. I saw him with that same red shirt and khaki slacks in a picture with his grandmother and other family. It's cool that he is embracing his African heritage. I respect him on so many levels.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

29. Ummmm, He's Just Wearing An Outfit Anyone Else Would Wear There.

I mean even when he does that he does it in the way of a messiah? :rofl:

[Caseman]

31. Thank you...

...People are a little too sensitive here. He's wearing an outfit. I'm sure they appreciate him spending millions and millions on commercials and T.V. time instead of donating or using it for a just cause.

[TheDonkey]

32. I think this photo is fine, and it is good that it is out now and not a few days before the GE

In a few days this will be old and people will be over it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

33. no it has already gone viral and it sucks......look