02.25.08
Playing Dress-Up
So Drudge runs a picture of Obama dressed up in Somali garb the week before Hillary Clinton’s last stand in OH, TX, and PA; no one believes that this is a coincidence. The interesting part is that Obama is pissed. His campaign manager ranted:
“On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election,”
“This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire, and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world,”
What? Hillary Clinton has done some stuff that qualifies as shameful and offensive to be sure, and I believe that she could genuinely diminish respect for America throughout the world, but this seems pretty tame to me. Did they doctor the picture? They could have photoshopped a machine gun into his hands or something. It seems like he’s implying that there is something embarrassing about dressing like a Somali elder; he’s not uniting with them apparently. If you read the comments at the bottom of the story it’s full of people who were going to vote for Obama, but now are sure that this guy is gonna jump on a jet and fly it into a building.
This is funny on several levels, especially after Obama has been working so hard to distance himself from his spiritual advisor and pastor Jeremiah Wright, who declared that Louis Farrakhan (a fellow who himself could probably be described as being a little divisive and offensive) “epitomized greatness.”
Just when I thought that this election year couldn’t get any more entertaining, I see something like this; I hope that everyone keeps up all the good work.
