In a controversy over what may or may not be a smear tactic, campaign managers for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are arguing over a photo of the Illinois senator that's making its rounds on the Internet Monday. The picture of Obama, above, shows him wearing traditional costume in Wajir, Kenya, during his trip to his father's homeland in 2006.
CLINTONIAN POLITICAL MACHINE IN ACTION?
According to an AOL.com news item, “The Associated Press photograph portrays Obama wearing a white turban and a wraparound white robe presented to him by elders in Wajir, in northeastern Kenya. Obama's estranged late father was Kenyan and Obama visited the country in 2006, attracting thousands of well-wishers.
"The gossip and news Web site The Drudge Report posted the photograph Monday and said it was being circulated by "Clinton staffers" and quoted an e-mail from an unidentified campaign aide.”Obama campaign manager David Plouffe immediately accused Clinton's campaign of "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election."
"Obama's foreign policy adviser, Susan Rice, said the circulation of the photograph was divisive and suggests "that the customs and cultures of other parts of the world are worthy of ridicule or condemnation . . ."
A post on the ABCNews.com blog reported, “ABC News' Teddy Davis and Jacqueline Klingebiel Report: During a Monday interview with ABC's Dallas affiliate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., did not flatly deny the DrudgeReport's charge that her campaign leaked a photo of rival Barack Obama in traditional African dress. . .
The ABCNews.com blog also stated “. . . During a Monday conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said that the former first lady's campaign "did not sanction" the leaking of the photo. But he stopped short of denying whether a Clinton aide may have passed it to the DrudgeReport. . .”
PRAISES FROM BLACK MUSLIM FARRAKHAM
On the same day that someone in the Clinton Political Machine produced the photo the Associated Press reports a story about the infamous Nation of Islam minister’s characterization of Senator Obama as being the “hope of the entire world.”
Associated Press reports that Farrakhan, addressing some 20,000 people Sunday at the annual "Saviours' Day" celebration in Chicago, never explicitly endorsed Obama but spent most of a nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator. AP says Farrakhan compared Obama to Nation of Islam founder Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father. He suggested that Obama "could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."
BEWARE OF WOLVES IN SHEEP WEAR
Farra-con makes quite a claim on behalf of this B-rated (because of his very limited experience) politico. I personally see nothing in Obama’s unimpressive political record to commend him as deserving to any degree the adulation being poured on him by Farrakham or by the crowds that naively and blindly cheer him. To the contrary Obama offers false hope and empty promises. He beguiles many unthinking and those eager to confer rock star status on Obama in order to worship him. Obama is a false prophet, a inexperienced politician and above all a radical socialist bent on moving America leftward. America should beware equally of Obama and Rodham-Clinton, they are both vicious wolves in sheep’s clothes.
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