Absolutely NO PROOF anyone from Clinton camp connected in anyway to 'the photo'

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html

Despite having no proof, Obama camp blasts Clinton for 'Obama in Muslim garb' photo.

wants to be on the defensive
about something they were not
responsible for. They stand
the risk of having it spun further
if they do not take a 'hands off'
approach to it.

Something tells me they can't.

to deny something you aren't responsible for.

Don't be fooled again.

If they aren't behind it, why do they not deny it?

I know the answer, thanks to google.

Still none?

:hi:

Obama's campaign accuses the Clinton campaign of "distributing" that photo:

"Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of "shameful offensive fear-mongering" by circulating a photo as an attempted smear.

Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya," the Drudge Report saidThe Clinton campaign did not deny the charge, but did not comment further."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html

And here:

"Three Obama foreign policy advisers participated in a conference call with reporters Monday in advance of an anticipated Clinton speech outlining her foreign policy goals. All criticized her campaign for distributing the photo.

"It is unfortunate ... that her campaign would be involved in putting out a photograph that is in its very nature designed to be divisive," said Susan Rice, an Obama adviser and fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The advisers -- Rice, Gen. Jonathon “Scott” Gration and Richard Danzig -- noted that in the photo Obama is simply accepting a gift from one of his hosts, and he tried it on just like any politician visiting a foreign country would.

"He was someone who accepted a gift of friendship in a way that we should expect our president to," Gration said.

Danzig said distributing the photo was clearly an attempt to have voters "judge a book by its cover" and he said the campaign's "grasping" at such at attack represented its lack of substantive critiques against Obam."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html



OK I read the Drudge story. Plouffe was reacting to the Drudge story, and Drudge wrote that he obtained a copy of an email that a Clinton staffer had emailed to another Clinton staffer that discussed and contained that photo. Notice how the meaning of words got mutated. "Putting out a photo", "distributing the photo", "circulating a photo". Those became the charges that the Clinton campaign supposedly did not deny.

I am holding judgment on that however. All I can see so far is that the Clinton campaign did not deny that a staff member at some level sent an email to one or other staff members at some level that contained that photo. They did not deny the content of Drudge's story. That is it so far from what I can tell. Now the words can be twisted to say that an email from one individual to another is "distributing" I suppose, technically. Plouffe made a big point that Clinton aids had "e-mailed a photo" but to who, themselves?

What about the fact that the photo had already being circulated on Free Republic and at another conservative web site, seemingly for weeks? Clinton gets blamed for that?:

"Supermarket tabloid The National Examiner reportedly ran the photo in its Feb. 4 issue. The photo appeared on right-wing message board Free Republic and conservative blog Sweetness & Light before Drudge picked it up."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html

So Drudge knew about this photo for a long time and only waited to make a big deal out of it until he had a way to rope Clinton into this.

You know the difference, don't you?

You know the truth, don't you?

And I guess that's good enough for some people.

My, my, my.

I saw a thread with a clip from democracy now and someone called it right wing trash LOL. imagine amy goodman as a right wing shill.

Lots of people say shit about Barry. Does that make it true?

a media-blast email in reference to such a story.

Yet that's not really a proof, is it? Isn't the lack of denial from Sen. Clinton's people at best merely evidence rather than an absolute proof?

but that all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

nt.

Did he dress that way? Is it somehow a lie? Any proof the Hillary campaign had anything to do with it?

Only a sucker would think this was "leaked" to "harm" him.

Obama's.

... how could anyone reasonably believe this is not a Clinton(s) attempt at another smear?

Frankly, it is pathetic and ought to disqualify her and her husband from anymore time in the White House

:eyes:

that's why Drudge picked NOW to release it and blame the Clinton campaign. You guys are just too much.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Clintons_response_the_days_Drudge.html#comments


The Clinton campaign puts out a response from Maggie Williams, which doesn't respond to the question of whether a staffer was circulating the photo of Obama in Somali garb, but takes issue with the Obama campaign's embrace of the issue:

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.

I certainly would want to address. Maybe more will be forthcoming today, as time elaspes.

If not, maybe KO will address it tonight on Countdown..

Interesting no comment though..

"Three Obama foreign policy advisers participated in a conference call with reporters Monday in advance of an anticipated Clinton speech outlining her foreign policy goals. All criticized her campaign for distributing the photo."

It would have been nice if the "foreign policy" advisors had spent the phone call talking about foreign policy. Instead, they used the opportunity to spread an unprovable Drudge smear against Clinton. But, hey, it's about getting elected. Work out the details of foreign policy later.

Will he use these tactics against McCain? Or will that be too partisan and divisive and alienate our Republican friends?

She didn't put that headress on him, and if y'all think it wouldn't have made the 'rounds, you're not thinking like a Republican.

Besides, after Harry and Louise, all bets are off. If that's not a doctored photo, it's fair game.

NOBODY'S playin' nice anymore.

:rofl: at the political neophyte

it should be said that he should be able to withstand the truth.

You don't seem to understand what I am saying. Unless Clinton doctored that photo, there is no story here.

If the truth hurts Obama, then it hurts him.

The motive is clearly there and her campaign isn't denying that they sent this out.

If the Clinton campaign was smart, they would distance themselves from this because it isn't going to make her look good.

Aside from the Obama Camp, that is? This was "news" to everyone?

It wouldn't be "news" if just some nerd at Drudge googled it up, would it?

An hour? Less than an hour? Had the Obama Camp tried to hide this pic?

Your first is that "only the Obama campaign had this for sure."
The second is that "anyone could find that photo easily."

:rofl:

And still no explanation for why the Clinton camp isn't denying it in their statements.

You're doing pretty good, keep on trying! And yet, and but still - only the Obama campaign had this for sure, but anyone could've found that photo, so blaming Clinton as the "obvious culprit" is stupid beyond all previous stupids.

You're tripping.

Only in the twisted world of the ObamaBots would a Clinton "team up" with Drudge.

It doesn't make your point any more valid

OK. Sure. Yeah, right.

It was not the charges, but the fact that they were true that hurt.

They could compel Drudge to produce the emails in court, where it should be obvious that they didn't come from anyone in her campaign, right?

If they are innocent, they have every reason to deny these allegations or else it would be political damaging.

If the Hillary camp speaks out against this, I would reconsider. I like jumping to making accusations, but I can't let this one go just yet. The timing and political motives are clearly their, and Hillary is known to play hardball.

When Hillary is done screwing herself into the ground, come back to us and tell us about the brilliance of hiring Charlie Black's sidekick to manage a Democratic candidate's campaign. They are practicing smashmouth politics not unlike that * trotted out in South Carolina or that Chambliss used against Cleland.

So what "word" are you so upset about?

"Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams tried to turn the tables on Obama's campaign Monday, releasing a blistering statement that did little to disabuse the notion Clinton's staffers were behind the photo's distribution.

“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," Williams wrote in an e-mail to reporters. "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.”

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html

You would've fit right in at the Salem Witch trials.

"If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed."

Obama's campaign accuses the Clinton campaign of "distributing" that photo:

"Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of "shameful offensive fear-mongering" by circulating a photo as an attempted smear.

Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)

The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya," the Drudge Report saidThe Clinton campaign did not deny the charge, but did not comment further."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html

And here:

"Three Obama foreign policy advisers participated in a conference call with reporters Monday in advance of an anticipated Clinton speech outlining her foreign policy goals. All criticized her campaign for distributing the photo.

"It is unfortunate ... that her campaign would be involved in putting out a photograph that is in its very nature designed to be divisive," said Susan Rice, an Obama adviser and fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The advisers -- Rice, Gen. Jonathon “Scott” Gration and Richard Danzig -- noted that in the photo Obama is simply accepting a gift from one of his hosts, and he tried it on just like any politician visiting a foreign country would.

"He was someone who accepted a gift of friendship in a way that we should expect our president to," Gration said.

Danzig said distributing the photo was clearly an attempt to have voters "judge a book by its cover" and he said the campaign's "grasping" at such at attack represented its lack of substantive critiques against Obam."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html



OK I read the Drudge story. Plouffe was reacting to the Drudge story, and Drudge wrote that he obtained a copy of an email that a Clinton staffer had emailed to another Clinton staffer that discussed and contained that photo. Notice how the meaning of words got mutated. "Putting out a photo", "distributing the photo", "circulating a photo". Those became the charges that the Clinton campaign supposedly did not deny.

I am holding judgment on that however. All I can see so far is that the Clinton campaign did not deny that a staff member at some level sent an email to one or other staff members at some level that contained that photo. They did not deny the content of Drudge's story. That is it so far from what I can tell. Now the words can be twisted to say that an email from one individual to another is "distributing" I suppose, technically. Plouffe made a big point that Clinton aids had "e-mailed a photo" but to who, themselves?

What about the fact that the photo had already being circulated on Free Republic and at another conservative web site, seemingly for weeks? Clinton gets blamed for that?:

"Supermarket tabloid The National Examiner reportedly ran the photo in its Feb. 4 issue. The photo appeared on right-wing message board Free Republic and conservative blog Sweetness & Light before Drudge picked it up."
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_campaign_blasts_Clinton_over_photo_0225.html

So Drudge knew about this photo for a long time and only waited to make a big deal out of it until he had a way to rope Clinton into this.

Drudge obtained a copy of an email sent from one Clinton staff person to another. That is what he wrote. THe Clinton campaign did not deny that said email was real. If that is what you call "circulating" I have "circulated" some amazing things in my life.

That was debunked so badly you were laughed at for pushing it.
Why don't you scuttle back to the lounge and try to slip "Hillary's shrill!" into a few more gardening threads...

She's despicable.

Obama's campaign would not connect Hillary to the story without validation

It has happened before and Axelrod denounced the attempts to link Hillary's campaign to an attack:



This latest incident is different in that it comes on the heels of Hillary's campaign and her surrogates promoting Obama's ties to "former members of a radical domestic terrorist group."

:rofl:

It's not like the Republicans are going to waste their time and money on someone in a Primary. This smells of Hillary and I am willing to bet we will be seeing a resignation of one of her campaign staff after this whole thing dies down that way she can bring it to light again.

"Look what I found on Google" doesn't get the play that this is getting.
He's playing the Obama supporters like a fiddle.

Posted by an Obama supporter no doubt, proud of Obama getting out there into the real world.

Obama supporters are more gullible than even I imagined they were.

:rofl:
You DUbamas are *so* funny!

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Don't Look at How Badly Hillary's campaign is sinking

look at this instead:

There have been 12 duplicate threads posted about the Clinton campaign circulating a photo of Obama in "muslim" garb
6 duplicates trying to defend Hillary Clinton for this, and 6 duplicates condemning this smear campaign.





People should be worried to hear of the connections between the Clinton and McCain campaign advisors, or the fact that Obama has won 25 contests, Hillary only 11. This cute distraction seems to be working.

Clinton has zero credibility on these matters, and that's her own damn fault.

Just look at today's embarrassing poo-slinging the DUbamas engaged in.

After Obama wins the nom, can I borrow it? :hi:

Man, this thread was jumpin' back before the Obama supporters all ran away cryin'...