To attack Obama, a very desperate Hillary ROTTEN CUNTon is leaking out the most heinous gunk imaginable, from the most rotten depths of her disgusting, sickening, cancerous, feminist, nazified, evil fucking CUNT
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Obama slams smear photo
By: Mike Allen
Feb 25, 2008 09:50 AM EST
Obama campaign hits Drudge report on circulated photo of senator
dressed as Somali elder.
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 said. The photo created huge
buzz in political circles and immediately became known as "the
'dressed' photo," reflecting the Drudge terminology.
Plouffe said in a statement: "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," said Plouffe.
The Clinton campaign issued an official response to the growing
tempest - but the statement from campaign manager Maggie Williams did
not respond to the central question of whether staffers circulated the
photo.
"Enough," Williams said in the statement. "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."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/clinton-on-phot.html
Clinton on photo: 'Why is anybody concerned about this?"
February 25, 2008 6:02 PM
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.
She then turned the tables on her Democratic rival and accused him of
using the controversy surrounding the alleged leaking of the photo to
distract the public's attention from deficiencies in his platform and
experience.
"I know nothing about it," Clinton told ABC affiliate WFAA. "This is
in the public domain. But let's just stop and ask yourself: 'Why are
you -- why is anybody concerned about this?'"
Clinton said that she found questions about whether her campaign
leaked the photo to be "really laughable."
"This is one more attempt by my opponent's campaign to change the
subject," said Clinton, "From his health-care plan that won't cover
everybody, from an economic plan that won't produce jobs, and from a
record that is pretty thin when it comes to national security and
standing up for our country around the world."
The former first lady argued that there are photos of her from around
the world wearing "the costume of the country" she was visiting.
"Every time I traveled to foreign countries, I wore the costume of the
country. You can find dozen of pictures of me in different parts of
the world," said Clinton. "You can find me wearing African outfits,
Latin American outfits, Asian outfits, when you travel to foreign
countries, it's a sign of respect. What does that have to do with
anything?"
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.
"I'm not in a position to ask 700 people to come in," said Wolfson.
Back in October, The New York Times identified Tracy Sefl as the
Clinton campaign's conduit to the DrudgeReport.
Asked by ABC News on Monday if she gave the photo to the DrudgeReport,
Sefl, who is vice president at the Glover Park Group, said, "no."
Like Wolfson, she could not speak for all Clinton campaign associates.
Asked if she has contacted the DrudgeReport to seek a correction to
its claim that the Clinton campaign is the source of the photo, she
said, "No comment."