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2008/2/25-26 [Politics/Domestic/President/Clinton] UID:49234 Activity:nil
2/24    Clinton campaign caught circulating photo of Obama in traditional
        Somali garb:
        http://drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm
        Clinton campaign non-denial denial:
        http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179989.php
        \_ Is that a fake photo?
           \_ Nope, it's from a 2006 congressional delegation to Somalia
           \_ Nope, it's from a 2006 congressional delegation to Kenya
              Senators and reps do this sort of thing all the time - go to
              foreign country, try on the traditional outfit.  The slime is
              in the suggestion that there's anything wrong with the picture.
              [just keep on deleting and I'll keep restoring]
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CLINTON STAFFERS CIRCULATE 'DRESSED' OBAMA Mon Feb 25 2008 06:51:00 ET 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. 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. "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. accused the Clinton campaign Monday of 'shameful offensive fear-mongering' for circulating the snap. Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams responds: "If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed."
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talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179989.php
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