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| Clinton staffers circulating photo of Obama in local garb?
by Arlen Parsa
I don’t even know what to say to this, other than to ask if it’s really any different substantively than the Muslim smear or the “Obama won’t recite the pledge of allegiance” smear. Drudge:
CLINTON STAFFERS CIRCULATE ‘DRESSED’ OBAMA
Mon Feb 25 2008 06:51:00 ETWith a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a “dressed” Barack Obama.
The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.
The senator was on a five-country tour of Africa.
“Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?” questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.
In December, the campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Developing…
I can imagine that this might be the sort of thing a bitter staffers might be circulating amongst themselves via email or something, but if they’re actually trying to push this picture in to people outside the campaign, then that’s a different matter entirely.
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This is the type of thing you’d expect from the Republican smear machine, not from a Clinton. She’s definitely taking a page out of Karl Rove’s handbook. It’s just one more reason why she doesn’t deserve to be the Democratic nominee.
How do we know it wasn’t, perhaps, Photoshopped?