There's nothing wrong w/ Obama dressing as a Somali but why would a Clinton aide pass it to Drudge?

[usregimechange]

What purpose would that serve? What motivation? Why?

The answer I think is that, as I have said before, she would do anything to get elected. It makes me wonder what she would do to maintain power if she were to achieve it.

Anyone who missed this story or just got home see here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/dressed-obama-photo-outrage/2008/02/26/1203788284463.html

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Please stop lying

What is your basis for saying "a Clinton aide pass(ed) it to Drudge?"

Drudge said nothing of the sort, so you seem to have an active imagination, or just like making things up.

(Drudge doesn't say a Clinton staffer sent it to him. He says it is an email he obtained.)

[rinsd]

7. Next version will have Hillary taking the photo herself.

:eyes:

[murielm99]

19. Haven't you learned the Rovian playbook by now?

1. If you repeat something long enough, it becomes true.

2. Clinton did it! Clinton did it! (Only this time, it is Hillary Clinton).

I never thought I would see Democrats using the "Clinton did it" ploy.

[usregimechange]

30. See here:

Did I miss the Clinton camp denying it?

[maddiejoan]

33. after they drugged him

and dressed him in costume.

Notice the surprised look on his face like:

WTF? Dude? Why am I dressed like this?

[Yael]

14. Drudge's headline: CLINTON STAFFERS CIRCULATE 'DRESSED' OBAMA

[Bluerthanblue]

18. sorry Yael, I'm a slow typer, didn't see yours before- and took too

long composing.

:hi:

peace~

[Bluerthanblue]

16. "Clinton Staffers Circulate "dressed Obama"- is slightly different, but the result

is not very different.

And doesn't do much for thier respectablilty IMO.

Funny how she comes out today saying he needs a guide book for foreign policy.

Respect is not easy to regain.

peace~

[usregimechange]

21. Look here and stop the BS:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

31. You cannot be as stupid as you are acting

You offer a screen cap of the fucking Drudge Report as evidence of the truth of the matter?

You have proved yourself ignore worthy. Bye.

[usregimechange]

35. I may be stupid but your fucking blind

"With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a "dressed" Barack Obama."

[JimGinPA]

2. Desperation, That's All

:shrug:

[NastyRiffraff]

3. "What purpose would it serve?"

Followed by an unbelievably stupid answer that's been inanely typed over and over: "she would do anything to get elected."

Guess what? Drudge's motivation was to trash BOTH Hillary and Obama. And now some people are falling for it, hard. Drudge rules their world!

[gerrilea]

4. Sounds like Obama camp doesn't like it when the shoes on the other foot

GO HILLARY!

[Barack_America]

22. When has the Obama campaign ever passed info on Hillary to Drudge?

Did I miss something?

[maddiejoan]

36. How did Drudge get this one?

Do they sell them in stores?

[Barack_America]

42. I thought that previewed on the Today Show?

It started on Drudge?

My personal suspicion is that Rezko himself (or his wife) probably sent that photo in. Clinton pretty much smeared his name nationally during the SC debate. I'm sure he didn't appreciate it and he would certainly still have the pic and would remember the event.

I don't recall hearing any speculation that the Obama campaign themselves supplied that photo. Was there?

[maddiejoan]

44. It started with Drudge

So how did he get it?

[Barack_America]

46. I still say Rezko himself.

It's what I would do if somebody called me a "slumlord" on national TV and I knew that person had posed for a picture with me.

:shrug:

[onenote]

5. and how do you know that a clinton aide passed it to drudge?

Drudge simply says that it obtained a copy of an email that was sent by a clinton staffer not that the email was sent to it by the staffer.

[joeybee12]

6. What is yourt motivation for believing someone on the HRC campign did

without any proof...that's the scary part.

[babylonsister]

8. It's that slimey Muslim meme they're trying to spread, again.

Nothing wrong on the face of it, but their motives are in question.

[Jawja]

17. Get used to it because

long after Hillary, the GOP Swift Boat slime machine will be working overtime to achieve the same thing.

They will attempt to paint Obama as a muslim=terrorist, and surely he will be prepared for this.

[babylonsister]

20. So that makes it okay for the Clintons to do the same thing? nt

[Jawja]

32. That's not what I meant.

I meant that this is not the end of the "radical muslim=terrorist" tactic. The GOP will surely do it. Expect it. That's what I meant.

I did not mean that it is okay for the Clintons to do it. In fact, I am furious that they did it.

[babylonsister]

40. OK~

thanks for clarifying. If nothing else, he'll have had practice defending himself. Kind of sad that serious issues aren't front and center when there is so much that needs discussing and resolving.

[Jawja]

41. Exactly.

It saddens me that the Clintons have stooped to this level.

But hopefully, this will clue him in and prepare him for the slimefest to come. :hi:

[johnaries]

9. Drudge is trying to hurt both Hillary and Obama.

Hillary's campaign didn't even know about it. Drudge is just trying to stir things up and hurt both of them at the same time.

It's Drudge.

[Faygo Kid]

10. Obviously, everybody posting here missed the all-day war about this.

All this - Hillary's motivation, the accusations, the denials, the analysis - has been posted here extensively.

Just FYI.

[shaniqua6392]

11. Quit posting lies.

We should be better than this. You are giving that idiot Drudge free publicity, which is exactly what he wanted out of this crap.

[Marie26]

12. Probably the same reason

Obama passed the Rezko photo to Drudge.

[my3boyz]

13. The same reason MSNBC keeps putting Osama's picture up when talking abotu OBAMA.

[dogman]

15. You believe Drudge?

Will you believe the McCrazy attacks on Obama also?

[Barack_America]

24. The campaign is not categorically denying that it came from them.

Nor are they promising to punish any of their staffers if it is found to have come from them.

Democrats should not be e-mailing info on other Dems to RW sources ever. That is the point.

[dogman]

28. How can they account for the possible actions of individuals?

When they found campaigners in Iowa had sent a false email that Obama was a Muslim, they were dismissed. How do you know these emails were from Dems, or even exist for that matter? As I wrote if you believe Drudge now, will you believe him in the GE campaign. I've seen email that shames the Clintons and Obama in one photoshopped picture. Were I to suggest it came from one campaign or another, would you believe it?

[ExtraGriz]

23. no passing of the photo required by clinton

the photo is hosted on websites....pretty simple to copy and paste.

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

[Flabbergasted]

26. And there would be no controversy if "Clinton staffers had not passed it on"

[jillan]

25. WHY did Obama let him self get photographed if the picture would upset him?

That's the real question.

[Flabbergasted]

27. It is a good question. I'd say it's a moment of poor judgment.

Perhaps the photo was taken without his awareness.

[usregimechange]

29. What upsets him is the use of it by Clinton staffers

[jillan]

37. Yeah - it would have been better if the McCain staffers circulated it.

[usregimechange]

43. Better because you expect such BS from pukes

[Cameron27]

38. He's upset because Drudge

said it was circulated by Clinton's staffers, he was also upset because Robert Novak said that the Clinton camp did something too. Maybe he should be upset with the Drudges and Novaks of the media, and not give any more credibility to RW assholes.

[demo dutch]

34. Who cares might as well get all out in the open if not now, it'll happen in the GE, so consider it

a favor, and get it all out because you know the repugs will sooner or later!

[jillan]

39. Were you listening to Thom Hartmann today too?

lol - that's what he was saying...

[demo dutch]

47. No but it pretty much make sense that way

[zulchzulu]

45. You will never get a sane answer to your question

The only reason to release the photo is to get those who think Obama might be a Muslim or think that people might find their inner-racist self would see a point in having the picture released.

The excuse from Hillaryworld that it was no big deal is as phony as the candidate whose campaign released the photo.

[HeraldSquare212]

48. Check the other posts about Somali population in Columbus.