Team Hillary: What’s the problem with circulating a photo of Obama in tribal garb?
posted at 11:34 am on February 25, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Oh, Hillary. Ohhhhh, Hillary.
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.
See, it’s you who’s prejudiced for finding any untoward intentions in her waving around a photo of Obama wearing a turban. Note well, per Ambinder, the non-denial here that the campaign is circulating the photo. Painfully obvious exit question: If the photo’s so mundane and inconsequential, why are they circulating it in the first place?
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Say what you will, at least she’s swinging a bat… finally… she might miss, but the claws are out… debate Tuesday should be a riot.
Republican on February 25, 2008 at 11:36 AM
No swings, no hits.
LtE126 on February 25, 2008 at 11:37 AM
She’ll still kiss his butt if he beats her.
kirkill on February 25, 2008 at 11:39 AM
To remind everyone why his first name is Barack, and his middle name is Hussein. They’re just being informative, those good Clinton folks…
Entelechy on February 25, 2008 at 11:40 AM
Imagine if a conservative would do this…
Entelechy on February 25, 2008 at 11:41 AM
According to Drudge, Maggie Williams (who replaced Solis on Clinton’s campaign) had this to say in response to Obama’s condemnation of the release of these photos:
“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.”
Am I missing something here? Is Maggie saying that Obama should be ashamed for defending himself???
Drudge DID post photos of Hitlery wearing a hijab and dark colored coat in some Muslim country embracing a similarly-garbed woman; of BJ wearing some similar tribal garb, and of W wearing some clownish-looking blue & gold chinese long silk smock. Which basically, utterly negated the jab at Obama that the Clinton campaign was attempting to make.
In other words:
A) Toss some meaningless photo jab that tries to paint Barack as a Muslim when all he was doing was the very same thing Hills did wearing the hijab (trying to honor the locals by looking like a local)
B) Let Barack get ticked off and defend himself
C) Chastise him for defending himself and denounce him as being divisive
Does this not look like some brainless scheme of the pot calling the kettle black? And doesn’t Clinton’s campaign wind up being the one that looks far more divisive by pulling a stunt like this? Can we say “BACKFIRE?”
New name for the Clintonistas: “Los Desperados”. A stupid stunt like this one shows how TRULY DESPERATE they are. Talk about a REACH!
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM
Too bad she’s still in the dugout.
fourstringfuror on February 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM
Guess this means now that in case he suddenly feels a wave of nostalgia for the good old days, Senator Robert Byrd can show up to work in his old Klansman robes and hood.
pilamaye on February 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM
This is very entertaining, to say the least.
Spinning sideways.
JammieWearingFool on February 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Subliminal message?
KelliD on February 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Barrack is his own Willie Horton.
BowHuntingTexas on February 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Time, I think, to turn over his rock and let Clenis back into the fray. A finger wag and lecture about appropriate behavior aimed at Obama right now would be devastating. I’m afraid time is running short and hope the machine can make it as entertaining as possible.
a capella on February 25, 2008 at 11:43 AM
The Clintons will not be denied.
fourstringfuror on February 25, 2008 at 11:44 AM
You guys are such pessimists. I’m sure she just circulated those pictures to show the world what a well traveled and open minded guy he is.
Bill Scrunty on February 25, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Again, I must be missing a point, here.
Didn’t we conservatives make much hay and have a few guffaws at Kerry in the blue ‘bunny suit’? And was that wrong?
Midas on February 25, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Don’t you dare say “the claws are out”! Next think you know you’ll be saying “periodically,” you sexist!
PurpleWombats on February 25, 2008 at 11:45 AM
It’s the typical double standard of the Klintons. Do as they say, not as they do.
tx2654 on February 25, 2008 at 11:46 AM
THIS is the Clinton we all know and love! Where ya been, girly??
Excellent. Hahaha.
amkun on February 25, 2008 at 11:46 AM
Anything that cements BHusseinO to the muslim world, the muslim faith and his ties to domestic terrorists is a point for the good. sure it might not help clinton at this stage since the hard left is now in control of the party but by hillary putting this out there, it gives the repubs clean hands. It also will set the stage for the general election. This election will be about security and the economy. It is simple as that McCain is strong on one weak on the other. BHO is the same. Thus anything that plays to the repubs strength is a plus in my book. Go hillary stay alive a little longer, do more damage to the left wing and set the stage for your revenge. Hell I might switch parties just to keep hillary alive for the convention.
unseen on February 25, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Released just in time for the Farrakahn endorsement, which itself will probably come up in tomorrow’s debate.
Vizzini on February 25, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Good lord. That response was so…uh, Clintonian.
CP on February 25, 2008 at 11:48 AM
Not so fast here. Here’s another scenario…Just last night Hillary started attacking the ‘halo’ that has been coronated on Obama. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the Obama crowd is fueling this fire. Circulate a photo (that’s bound to get out eventually), blame it on the Clintonistas…to detract attention from the meat of her most recent argument: Obama is an empty suit. This line of attack against the Messiah seems to be the only thing that can stick, and Obama knows it.
CapitalistPig on February 25, 2008 at 11:48 AM
It’s a bit like Red Eye’s dirty guest introductions. It’s all in your minds, people!
Blacklake on February 25, 2008 at 11:49 AM
I think she’s decided her only choice is to either bow out now, or start hitting hard and going as negative as she can as a last ditch effort, and see how it affects the Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island results.
Trouble is, the longer Barack can keep his cool and respond very calmly (as he did on Saturday) every time she decides to exercise her freedom of screech, the more he looks like a decisive, cool, calm, collected leader (i.e., the more “presidential”) and the more she looks like she’s gone off the deep end and needs a serious twelve-step anger management seminar. “APA – Angry Politicians Anonymous”.
And frankly, I think it’s gonna backfire on her BIG TIME. People want a president who’s gonna be tough and firm and stand his/her ground when it makes sense, compromise when it makes sense. They DON’T want a president who rages like that.
I’m of the opinion this was the Plouffe strategy all along: She had to either bow out or get very negative and hit hard, so they distributed the Ohio flyers to bait her into responding exactly as she did on Saturday…ALL IN ORDER TO PROVIDE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND as he did on Saturday (caps for emphasis, not yelling). In other words, I believe Barack and Plouffe are playing her like a fish on a line, a puppet on a string.
IMHO she’s TOAST. I still think he’s an empty suit who spews entrancing, enchanting hypnotic language when he talks (yet lacks serious content), but he’s CLEARLY out-politicking her).
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
I’m not as upset about the photo as I am his ties to the Trinity United Church of Christ. All you have to do is nose around on their home page http://www.tucc.org/about.htm and take note of their mission statement etc. He says he’s been a member there for 20 years? Geez, 20 years of indoctination in Black separatism and their “Non-negociable Commitment to Africa”. Kinda makes it hard to believe that he would’t put his raciest religion first and Politics second.
W.E. Dubois indeed.
swampy on February 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Defending himself from what ?? The knucklehead put the damn dress on.. the knucklehead posed for the picture. What’s the big deal ?? Is he ashamed ?? Why ?
Gotta admit…it’s getting fun :)
redrock on February 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Did the Hilldabeast don a hijab? If there is a picture….fun and games with photoshop, the 2 dems arm in arm!
dmann on February 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
I, for one, will be watching the debate tomorrow just to see the fireworks!
ArmyAunt on February 25, 2008 at 11:52 AM
pic of her in headscarf on Drudge (link under obama pic)
That’s not a ‘hijab’ though, is it? That’s the full length black thing with eye-slit only, right?
Midas on February 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM
You can’t buy this kind of entertainment.
29Victor on February 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Did the Hilldabeast don a hijab? If there is a picture….fun and games with photoshop, the 2 dems arm in arm!
dmann on February 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM
Probably — but then, Laura Bush put on a head scarf so…. it works for Barack “Madrassa” Obama, not sure it matters if Hillary did.
Republican on February 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM
No. You’re thinking of a Niqab. Hijab just covers the head. Niqab covers the whole face, leaving the eye slits.
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM
Fox News is now reporting that the Clinton Campaign says they “can’t confirm that they did not distribute the photo”. I hate double negatives, does this mean they are now admitting that they did it?
HawaiiLwyr on February 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM
To make the point that if that was Hillary that it would be in every news magazine around. They should know that others would circulate that.
ninjapirate on February 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM
And why did Greta VS post the story about Farrakhan on her blog (and exit with her opinion that the LF endorsement shouldn’t hurt him)?
So then the NYT shoots back with the Obama Camp fears for the messiah’s safety story.
The media should make a movie about itself.
Connie on February 25, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM
This was a very shrewd move by the clintons. Ohio is the reason. you have a conservative southeastern Ohio, you have a racist Western Ohio and Western Ohio. BHO strentgh is in Northern Ohio.
the rumors of BHO past ties to muslim faith are out there. this cememts those rumors. We are a nation at War. You tie in the “news” of BHO mingleing with domestic terroists and it isn’t hard to come to some unpleaseant conclusions. the Clintos do NOT come at you from the front, they bob and weave. Hit from the sides. They use little pieces so that voters come up with the big picture seemingly on their own.
Personally IMO it might be a bit too little too late for it to work for Hillary but it isn’t for the repubs. You now are seeing what the general will be like. The race card will not be played it will be the muslim card, the terroists card, the inexperience card, the manchurian canidate card. What do we really know about BHO? will become the question of the month. what do we know of his history, what has he done, is he a pied piper leading us a stray. All these attacks will come to try to get the American people to questions and to in the end not trust BHO. After all BHO middle name is the same as Saddam’s last. It isn’t much of a stretch to tie BhusseinO to these names and faces. “Do we really want a president with such close ties to our enemies?” will be the theme come the general… will it work? possibly. BHO is not JFK. Their backgrounds are the same, their religions are not the same their backing is not the same. buyer remorse will set in for the Regean democrats I think…
unseen on February 25, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Hmmm…
Actualy I think this was put out to be a reminder of how he was raised…. which IS an issue to some of us.
There is a very good reason that you have to be born here to be President… and one that still makes sense to most of us, we want an AMERICAN running the US.
For a large portion of Obamas childhood he was NOT raised in America… and ALL studies have shown that those formative years are extremely important to who you eventualy become. You can overcome that initial programing, but under stress and duress you usualy revert to early childhood training and examples.
As your “moral compass” IS indoctrinated into you pretty young, the question becomes does he have the same “moral compass” as me??? ie, can I trust him???
So, to me, the picture is not a low blow, but a reminder of how he himself says he was raised….
Romeo13 on February 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Yeah, the thing with Africa is very obvious. I mean, a “global poverty tax”? On top of something like doubled foreign aid? Gee, I wonder where all this money is going.
amkun on February 25, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Personally I don’t see the big deal. I used to want to see Obama smear Hillary, now I want him to be brought down and then see both go to never- never land, of course.
I have a question that I can’t find anywhere. Where is Obama’s mother? Is she alive? We know she was white, if alive is it not odd that we never hear or see from her or have her mentioned. If someone knows, I’d be very interested.
Conservatives R Us on February 25, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Unseen,
Perhaps you’re right, I was thinking more of the general population than any racist tendencies in Ohio, a state I’ve only visited a few times on business and don’t know so well. So from that perspective, perhaps it was shrewd.
On the other hand, I think a lot of people are gonna see through the tactic as lame desperation particularly given the similar photos Drudge posted of Hills, BJ, and W, which to me totally take the wind out of the sails of the Clintonistas’ arguments. In the end, I think this move will hurt her more than it will Obama, but who knows, perhaps you’re right.
I suppose time will tell, next Tuesday night, which of us turns out to be right. It’ll be interesting to see.
This truly is incredible theater and spectacle to witness, I’ll give it that much.
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Politics is a full contact sport. O’Dreamy doesn’t know that ’cause he never had to run for anything in his life. He’s a Daley puppet.
LtE126 on February 25, 2008 at 12:08 PM
Hillary the HYPOCRITE, what a hypocrite. She makes comments about Republican smear tactics, and then she does this!
Does anybody else see this!
Skullf15 on February 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM
kirkill on February 25, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Nope. Both of his parents have gone to the great beyond.
As for the person who said that a “significant portion of his childhood, he was raised outside the US”, does anyone know exactly how many years he spent childhood living in Indonesia? For some reason, “two years” sticks out in my mind but I’m not sure. Will have to research that.
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM
OK, found it: 1967 to 1971. Four years. Actually, that IS a significant period of childhood, from the time he was 6 to the time he was 10. Pretty important developmental phase in any kid’s life in terms of developing an early worldview.
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM
I love this. make some popcorn. I love watching “When Leftists attack”. The long-term damage the leftists are doing to themselves has been a dream of mine for a long time. There are already hard feelings on both sides. The candidate left standing is facing the daunting task of reconciling two rabid sides contaminated by the self-righteousness of their particular brand of identity politics.
I am in an environment where the left dominates and the conversations/debates/heated arguments between Obama’s fanatics and the Clintonistas are an awesome thing to behold.
The Obama supporters call the Clinton supporters “non-progressive” (a slur?) or (i love this one) “reactionary” or when debating a particularly well informed Clintonista they pull out the big debate ender; “The failure to support Obama could be construed as racist” to wit the
savvy Clintonistas say ask/retort but failure to support woman as accomplished as Hilary could be deemed sexist”
Anecdotally, most of these arguments end badly (at least here at law-school). There are no policy debates here, this is all identity politics. Basically both sides have boiled it down to “support my side or there is something wrong with you”. That’s the sort of argument that engenders hard feelings. I know i’m on the right so i’ve seen this in action first hand.
My intuition is telling me the victorious primary candidate is not going to be able to reconcile with the other half of democratic party in time to save themselves from defeat in the general.
It is a very fun thing to watch them implode using the identity politics (and victim) tactics on one another.
elduende on February 25, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Indeed. A conservative’s dream come true!
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 12:08 PM
i think it was a good move but like I said I also think it was too little too late. this stunt should have been going on for the last 2-3weeks slowly building the case against BHO. I see not only Ohio but PA in these calculations. Randell’s comments where not taken out of thin air. From living in Ohio, PA and NC I would say racism is 3 times higher in the OH and PA than in NC. Not just from whites but from blacks also. throw in the growing peoblem of immigration and racism is growing stronger in the Northern states not less.
But this picture was more for the muslim thread of thought than anything else. racism will play a role just not how people think of race issues in present day. It will be the idea of “trust/fear” not dislike or hatred.
BJC attacked from the hatred/dislike front in SC and got beaten for it. This is a new softer attack on the same vein. I’m just glad the dems did it first and not the repubs. Now the theme is set. Will McCain use it?
Time will tell like you say.
unseen on February 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Looks like I’m gonna be watching my first Dem debate of the season!
Ludwig on February 25, 2008 at 12:21 PM
Nader 2008!
unseen on February 25, 2008 at 12:24 PM
Please let Hillary win Ohio and Texas and Pennsylvania. I want to see the meltdown of the democrat in Denver, CO 2008 on TV. Schisms? What schisms?
SouthernGent on February 25, 2008 at 12:25 PM
If the picture is untouched then I see nothing wrong with putting it out. Individuals can make up their own mind as to the subliminal message of the picture.
TooTall on February 25, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Let’s not forget that she’s been dressed up once or twice, too.
What a nice way for the Autopsy to come back after 3 weeks. Thanks, Hil!
Nethicus on February 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Too bad they didn’t have the pics from the Bernadine Dohrn/Ayers/Obama get together in Hyde Park. What garb would be appropriate for a tete-a-tete with the Weather Underground bombers? A Che Guevera T-shirt?
Mencken on February 25, 2008 at 12:28 PM
She’s making fun of the wrong wardrobe.
The empty suit is the real problem.
fogw on February 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM
WTF? A picture in a dress?
Where is the real Clinton fueled dirt. This is the best their armies of Private Investigators can do?
The quality of political smears has declined so much.
Sad.
JayHaw Phrenzie on February 25, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Thanks for doing Mav’s dirty work for him.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 25, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Its not fear-mongering to tell the truth.
Andy in Agoura Hills on February 25, 2008 at 12:35 PM
This is where the photo originated.
US Senator visits flood displaced town of Dire dawa
Connie on February 25, 2008 at 12:35 PM
For a large portion of Obamas childhood he was NOT raised in America… and ALL studies have shown that those formative years are extremely important to who you eventualy become.
So how do we explain Hillary growing up to become a military-hating socialist degenerate? She grew up in America, right?
Lehuster on February 25, 2008 at 12:37 PM
It’s twisted crap like this that makes the Clintons unbearable.
petefrt on February 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM
So this is what it sounds like when doves cry.
Chuck Schick on February 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM
How did Hillary grow up “to become a military-hating socialist degenerate?”
Saul Alinsky.
Crook County, Illinois – BIG Democrat Machine Politics stewarded by King Richard Daley the First.
Come to think of it, the same place Obambi got his Demosleaze political training.
Mencken on February 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM
at least she’s swinging a bat
Too bad she’s still in the dugout.
fourstringfuror on February 25, 2008 at 11:42 AM
BWAHAHAH… beautiful image!
There’s no crying in baseball!!
max1 on February 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM
I’m with Rush on this one. I don’t care what they’re fighting about, I just Hill & Barry to keep fighting.
hburns on February 25, 2008 at 12:52 PM
I just hope McCain’s people are taking careful notes, and the Republicans better be on their best PC behavior. I would just hate to see us lose this race because some idiot somewhere has a “Macaca” moment that the Obama people spin as evidence of bigotry.
P.S. It’s also amazing how transparent Hillary is at trying to inject race — we had (1) Obama studied at a Madrassa in Indonesia; (2) Obama wrote something goofy in kindergarden (presumably at the Madrassa); (3) Obama’s middle name is Hussein; (4) “Oh, Jesse Jackson won South Carolina, too!”
Outlander on February 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Maybe it’s all just a matter of both candidates reaching back into the Democratic Party’s tradition of racism (ref. “Wrong on Race”). Either that, or some mighty twisted logical-gymnastics are looping around in the not-about-race-or-gender (wink wink) kids.
Lockstein13 on February 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM
It was a nice hachet job. She set it up perfectly with her tantrum this weekend. It gives her the appearance of retaliating instead of attacking even though the mailers have been out for weeks. She was well aware it was on the way the night of the Texas debate when she was so “honored” to be on the same stage with Obamamessiah. I’ll give it a 9.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM
PC behavior? Isn’t that the problem? Republicans will be accused of it no matter what..get used to that.
Pam on February 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM
No kidding. You folks see that photo/video of her in the BEE SUIT over the weekend? All yellow/gold and black. Looked like a danged honeybee or bumblebee…yeah…BUMBLE-bee, THAT’S the TICKET! She’s a BUMBLER!
Sorry for the Jon Lovitz moment. It hit me as I was writing and couldn’t resist.
Shirotayama on February 25, 2008 at 1:06 PM
Just saw on the news that her lead in Ohio is now dwindling, and seemed to pick up speed going downhill right after they released that picture of B.O. in his robes. I have a funny feeling that whoever the goof was who came up with the brilliant idea of releasing the picture had better cover his cajones with an iron jock-strap. He may be losing them shortly.
pilamaye on February 25, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Pam on February 25, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Nail on head….for those that doubt, let your fingers do the walking right on over to DKOS or HUFF & puff. All conservatives and republicans are racists, homophobes, baby killers, etc. The fun hasn’t even started!!!
dmann on February 25, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Obama should release the photos of Hillary Clinton kissing and hugging Suha Arafat immediately after Suha Arafat said Israel was deliberately poisoning Palestinian children. It was an ancient antiSemtic slur and Hillary said nothing. Days after, when she was safely back in Washington, Hillary issued a statement saying she condemned Suha Arafat’s remarks. Rick Lazio brought it up in the 2000 Senate campaign in New York and Hillary said it showed Lazio’s “lack of experience” in foreign affairs. I wonder if Obama will have the guts to bring it up.
Larraby on February 25, 2008 at 1:42 PM
Tuesday Night will be fun!
tpnoble53 on February 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM
The Smartest Woman in the World isn’t just playing dumb, she’s just plain dumb from swimming around in her own flopsweat for days on end. It should get worser and worser, so you better get your rafts built if you live in her vicinity. There will be flash floods wherever she ‘campaigns’. That word now has a new meaning when applied to HRC, it means ‘Attack Barak’.
I thought that the SNL skit really didn’t do her justice, (she’s over the ‘concilliatory’ bit) but it did illustrate AP’s point. Dumb dumb dumb dumb…dat’s what stress and lots of bad karma will do to even the ’smartest woman’ on Earth.
Christine on February 25, 2008 at 1:48 PM
The Blackhawk Down troops would not be wearing Somali War Lord garb. What message is Obama sending?
Did Reagan wear Soviet garb? Of course not.
He wears muslim garb, but refuses to wear an American flag pin. Disgusting.
Also, I think McCain is proud of his mother. McCain’s 96 year old mother campaigns with him. Obama seems to ashamed of his mother. Where is she? I don’t remember Obama writing about the “dreams of his mother”?
faraway on February 25, 2008 at 1:57 PM
I think it is safe to assume, with the way the weekend went, come Tuesday night, there will be blood.
pilamaye on February 25, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Hillary’s team is attempting to play on a national racism that no longer exists. They have spread the narrative for so long that they believe it.
Our reaction is a nationwide “meh”.
joewm315 on February 25, 2008 at 2:23 PM
I suggest Hillary shines a light on who might find their way into the Messiah’s cabinet. Who is in this fellow’s network?
shaken on February 25, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Do we have a Muslimchian candidate running for president? Hmmmm!
pocomoco on February 25, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Yep, let’s break out the popcorn and soft drinks. Gotta be ready for the fireworks coming in the debate.
Hawthorne on February 25, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Obama should come out for the debate tomorrow dressed in that outfit.
And then ask Hillary a question in Spanish…
Doug on February 25, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Clinton will go hard before she bows out, that’s a definite. A Clinton never goes down without a nasty, nasty fight. But just the fact that she would employ tactics like this underscores the liberal pandermongering mentality she has, but it is so ready to go back on when it suits her. She will castigate people for prejudice and insensitivity and lay on thick, syrupy rhetoric about civil rights and unity, but then she publicizes a photo like this based on what assumption? That people will be turned off because he’s wearing what appears to be Muslim-like attire? And this disqualifies him from being POTUS, or she thinks it will? It’s a glimpse into this woman’s actually psyche and it’s pretty scary, isn’t it? She’s desperate.
mattyj86 on February 25, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Democrats at War with each other. I knew it would come to this.
faraway on February 25, 2008 at 2:51 PM
Oh, for Pete’s sake. Ever seen a picture of Mohammed Farah Aidid? He was a coat-and-tie type.
DrSteve on February 25, 2008 at 2:56 PM
I would personally love to see B.O got for broke Tuesday night and push just the right buttons, just so we can then watch Shillary ignite and finally, at long last, see the real HRC, in all her shrieking, wild-eyed, foul-mouthed, lamp-throwing glory, live in front of millions on national and even international TV. .
pilamaye on February 25, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Looks like she’ll never learn.
What the definition of insanity? I’m not really sure, but in corporations all over America they define it as:
“doing the same thing and expecting different results.”
She did add the “gotcha” twist at the end where she blames Obama for being offended. It’s just too bad she’s not running for president of her sixth grade glass.
This kind of novel tactic would have been met with surprised wild eyes and applause, if her audience was comprised of 11 year olds.
Dorvillian on February 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM
They got nothing.
timmo on February 25, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Her campaign is grasping at straws… or is this being circulated to increase debate ratings?
Hunt035 on February 25, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Hillary Clinton, the Bob Dole of 2008?
Some interesting insights from a conversation with a veteran Republican strategist.
1) Hillary Clinton is running a Republican campaign. Not that she’s running for the GOP nomination, obviously, but she’s running more or less the themes and styles of Bob Dole: She’s locked up all of the party establishment, touting all the endorsements, building up a campaign warchest, running on inevitability, on foreign policy, on experience. “That stuff works in a general election, but not the Democratic Primary,” the strategist notes. “Experience? Democrats have never cared about experience. They sent Bill Clinton up against an incumbent president.”
As Byron noted way back in 2003, Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ranked terrorism and homeland security at the bottom of their list of concerns, out of a dozen topics. This was back in the run-up to the 2004 election; we’re one cycle further from the events of 9/11. The Democratic electorate isn’t worried about whether their candidate will be tough enough on terrorism, or how they are as a commander-in-chief.
2) McCain is now leading both Hillary and Obama in Rasmussen’s head-to-heads.
al on February 25, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Her contempt for the average American.
ThePrez on February 25, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Why isn’t the real story about Raila Odinga and Barack Hussein Obama all over the cover of every newspaper everyday until Hussein O drops out?
SaintOlaf on February 25, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Why would Obama go to Kenya and wear Somali clothes?
This from wiki
faraway on February 25, 2008 at 4:50 PM
the staffer was probably just trying to suggest it would be newsworthy to see Hillary in a dress–any dress.
hipgecko on February 25, 2008 at 6:17 PM
I must apologize to Mr. Obama. I was googling his Mom just now and discovered that his Mom died in 1995.
faraway on February 25, 2008 at 8:32 PM
She is now saying….
Do I even need to finish the sentence?
All together now, “I…Know…Nothing…About…It”
Of course, she thinks that her campaign may have something to do with the release, but she’s really not sure.
Insufferable.
Dorvillian on February 25, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Team Hillary: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!
canopfor on February 25, 2008 at 10:35 PM
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