By MIKE ALLEN
02/25/08 09:50 AM EST
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,”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2008/02/obama-slams-smear-photo-008667#ixzz4KYV6qlCk
Lots of tourists apparently do this.
It was in Kenya, not Somalia.
Ten years later the photo has no impact. He visited Somalia, wore traditional dress only Donald Trump sees something sinister in this.
guess you didn’t read the article , its from the CLINTON Campaign in 2008
Your right James. :Poster like 8:50 is so tainted that they don’t comprehend what they are reading.
I don’t want Hillary, BUT, even she will be better than the Kenyan surrender monkey we have had to suffer these past 8 years.
5:43: racist language. Reflects poorly on this blog
I agree wholeheartedly 6:36 – language is much more important than action.