“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dressed in Muslim attire while on a trip to Kenya”
Source for Photo was taken during Obama’s 2006 taxpayer-funded trip to Africa. U.S. Senator Barack Obama, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia.
Obama Camp Furious at Photo Release
Fox News You Decide 08
A two-year-old picture of Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali garb has sparked a new war of words between the Democratic presidential front-runner and rival Hillary Clinton, whose aides say they can’t confirm or deny whether her camp is the source of the photo.
The photograph shows the Illinois senator outfitted as a Somali elder during his 2006 visit to northeastern Kenya, part of a five-country tour of Africa. It appeared at the top of Monday’s Drudge Report, and was said to have been provided by Clinton staffers over the weekend.
Now both campaigns are suggesting that the other should feel some sort of shame over the flap. According to Obama aides, the Clinton campaign is sinking to “shameful fear-mongering.” Clinton’s campaign chief retorted that she can’t figure out why Obama would be “ashamed” of having the photo out in the public.
While the source of the photo is unverified, Drudge claims it was sent to the site by a Clinton aide, who argued that had it been a costumed Clinton, it would have made the front pages.
“Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC,” shorthand for the candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, wrote the unnamed Clinton campaign staffer, according to the Drudge Report.
Expressing outrage, Obama’s campaign suggested the purpose of the photo release was to invoke reminders of persistent rumors that Obama is secretly Muslim, and by extension, anti-American.
“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,” Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said.
“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,” Plouffe continued.
A longtime member of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama, who as a child lived for four years in Indonesia, has repeatedly denied that he is Muslim. Previous attacks have been decried by both candidates, and one Clinton campaign volunteer was asked to step down after forwarding an e-mail spreading the Muslim rumor.
But seeing an opportunity to refute the Obama camp’s outrage, Clinton campaign Manager Maggie Williams turned the perceived prejudice on its head.
”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,” Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams said in a statement.
“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,” she said.
Indeed, the New York senator, her husband, Bill Clinton, and other past presidents have all been photographed in traditional costume while visiting nations abroad.
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
LOL Hey Obama if you are offended they I ask WHY? Lots of President’s and even their wives have dressed like the customs of other countries when visiting. Your being angry just may have more behind it then YOU Obama want to admit…..like maybe how you want to protect the image of Islam???? Just a thought!
A little note from me to those lurking that are going to vote for Obama:
You need to consider who Obama is loyal to. He was born a muslim, his father a Kenyan. He lived in Indonesia with his step father, a muslim. He became a Christian at age 28, joining a church to help him as a ‘community activist’. I question whether this is the best person to lead our military during a time of war against Islam. Considering that his views are 100% in alignment with the enemy ….US weakness, retreat, appeasement…it is undoubtedly an issue, and one that many Americans should consider heavily this fall.
…..Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Sorry, Obama.
Public figure’s public activities photos is public domain.
While Obama may not identify as a Muhammedan, that’s not how the Arab and Muhammedan Streets see it. Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
Hussein is a Muhammedan name. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muhammedan, so are you. And once a Muhammedan, always a Muhammedan. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muhammedan. He may think he’s a Christian, he may want you to think he’s a Christian, but they do not.
Under Islamic law (sharia), the consensus view is that a male apostate must be put to death unless he suffers from a mental disorder or converted under duress, for example, due to an imminent danger of being killed. A female apostate must be either executed, according to Shafi’i, Maliki, and Hanbali schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), or imprisoned until she reverts to Islam as advocated by the Sunni Hanafi school and by Shi’a scholars.
Now if Obama is an Apostate why haven’t the Muhammedans condemned him for his apostasy? He is what he is!!! A Raghead.
Right on the money Jack. If Obama did convert to Christianity, he would be an Apostate worthy of death. Muslims wouldn’t acknowledge his existence.
What if he’sengaged in pious fraud? The Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam or to “defend the faith”.
How else do you explain his acceptance by Muslims?
Also, Jesus is considered one of the great Prophets of Islam. When he says he worships Jesus, it’s no difference than other Muslims worshiping Mohammed, another great prophet of Islam. Matter-of-fact, Mohammad said Jesus was the greatest of all the prophets. Just something to think about.
Rick I agree it is public domain and Obama better cool it on his stupid hissy fit.
Jack I was wondering the same thing thank you so much. We have all read how lives are in danger when they leave Islam.
Bob yes, it is just to weird and totally against the norm of how their cult works.