***So yesterday Obama accused the Clinton camp of circulating the African garb photo**AGAIN

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***So yesterday Obama accused the Clinton camp of circulating the African garb photo**AGAIN

This happened on the stump yesterday. I see 3 threads in gd-p. about this!
2 are below along with a few other posts.


The latest talking point by BO supporters is:

“There is a difference between attacking the campaign and attacking HRC in this instance.

He can legitimately say He take Hillary at her word that she knew nothing about it but knocking her campaign for leaking it.”

But we all know it has the SAME effect and BO knows it!!
BO would not have brought it up if he thought it had no negative effects on Clinton.
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Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject ABC: Obama flip flops on Drudge photo
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5017324#5017324
5017324, ABC: Obama flip flops on Drudge photo
Posted by ruggerson on Tue Mar-11-08 07:45 AM

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/obama-flips-on.html

Obama Flips on Whether Clinton Leaked that Photo

March 11, 2008

Obama: "I take Senator Clinton at her word that she knew nothing about the photo. So I think that's something that we can set aside."

- Cleveland debate, February 26, 2008

Obama: "When in the midst of a campaign you decide to throw the kitchen sink at your opponent because you're behind, and you start, your campaign starts leaking photos of me when I'm traveling overseas wearing native clothes of those folks, to make people afraid, then you run an ad talking about who's going to answer the phone at three in the morning, an ad straight out of the Republican playbook, that's not real change. That's not real change. That's the same old thing."

 Jackson, Mississippi, March 10, 2008
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Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject So yesterday Obama accused the Clinton camp of circulating the African garb photo
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5017054#5017054
5017054, So yesterday Obama accused the Clinton camp of circulating the African garb photo
Posted by journalist3072 on Tue Mar-11-08 06:38 AM

A short while ago, the Today show ran a clip of Obama on the stump yesterday, during which he accused Sen. Clinton's campaign of circulating a photo of him in African garb.

Unless he has proof that it was Sen. Clinton's campaign, he needs to STFU.

Obama loves to talk out of his a&s, and it's clear that's what he was doing yesterday.

Sen. Clinton's campaign has denied any role in circulating the photo.

And unless Obama has evidence to the contrary, he needs to shut up.
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CLINTON DENIAL: AND OBAMA SAYING HE BELIEVES HER (only one of many_


……..Clinton denied any knowledge of the photo coming from one of her staff.

"So far as I know, it did not," she said. "That's not the kind of behavior that I condone or expect from the people working in my campaign."

Obama, a senator from Illinois, said he believes her.

"I take Sen. Clinton at her word that she knows nothing about the photo," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/26/dems.debate/
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Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Obama has now reversed himself TWICE
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5017054#5017879
5017879, Obama has now reversed himself TWICE
Posted by Nine on Tue Mar-11-08 09:01 AM

On the day Drudge published the photo and claimed, without evidence, that the photo had been sent from one Clinton staffer to another (not that the Clinton campaign had leaked it to Drudge), the Obama campaign twice accused the Clinton campaign of leaking the photo. The first accusation came from Obama's campaign manager, the second from Obama himself. And I don't want to hear how the Clinton campaign did not deny leaking the photo "quickly" enough. The accusation from Obama's campaign manager came less than two hours after the photo was out. They didn't wait for a denial. They didn't ask the Clinton campaign if it came from them - just took the non-evidenced Drudge claim, embellished it, and ran with it. The Clinton campaign did deny it. If they took a few hours to issue a denial, perhaps it's because they were doing some fact-finding to make sure what they were saying was the truth - something the Obama camp might want to consider in the future.

The next day at the Cleveland debate, Obama reversed himself and said he believed the Clinton campaign did NOT send Drudge the photo. Guess he didn't have the guts to accuse Clinton to her face. Or maybe he just wanted to look above it all after he'd already smeared her, his usual MO.

And now he's apparently reversed himself again. What a creep.
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,,,, (ONE of many posters saying no denial from Clinton)

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject "CLINTON VAGUE ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL OBAMA PHOTO"
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5017054#5017375
5017375, "CLINTON VAGUE ABOUT CONTROVERSIAL OBAMA PHOTO"
Posted by berni_mccoy on Tue Mar-11-08 07:52 AM

http://wcbstv.com/campaign08/barack.obama.hillary.2.662447.html

Clinton Camp HAS NEVER DENIED it, even when ASKED DIRECTLY.

Clinton, who has worn native dress herself, like during a trip to Jordan in 1999, responded through a campaign manager Maggie Williams.

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

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1. a post ---BO playing dirty racial politics in Mississippi:

Forum Name General Discussion: Primaries
Topic subject Mississippi
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5017054#5018151
5018151, Mississippi
Posted by DemEtienne on Tue Mar-11-08 09:31 AM

has a black population significant enough that ObamaCo. thinks this will effect the outcome of this primary.

He's trying to pull another S.C-like victory.

That his follower's think this is ok blows my mind.Clinton supposedly 'endorsed' McCain while Obama is exploiting race and the very real tensions between the races.

One has to do with allegedly "betraying" The Party the others betrayal transcends Party;damages already fragile relations between the races by disingenuously using a horrible part of American history for his personal gain.

Racism is alive and well in the U.S.;for Obama to exploit it in this way and further inflame tensions is so beyond the pale.It's really difficult to have any respect for Obama.

[NastyRiffraff]

2. I am really sick of Obama playing the race card

It's despicable, and insulting to African-Americans. Obama knows very well who started this so-called story: Drudge. He also knows that the Clinton campaign didn't "circulate" that photo; it was published in a tabloid weeks before. He also knows there's zero evidence, from Drudge or anyone else, that the email came from the Clinton campaign itself.

Yet he pushes the story, surprise surprise! Just in time for the Mississippi primary!

Hope and change...hope and change...chant that, and click your red shoes together three times and you'll get a WHOLE NEW WORLD!

[UALRBSofL]

3. Oh, y'all read that thread too?

I posted in that thread defending Hillary and calling out Obama on it but of course these Obama supporters are not concerned with the facts, sadly.

[robbedvoter]

4. Same MO as the Sharptonizing before SC: say at the debate all's fine, contradict

it in speeches - surrogates - it was the "MLK insult" the "fairy tale" then, now it's a Drudge non-story...

[anamandujano]

5. I wish Hillary would hold up that National Enquirer and say, "I totally denounce

this despicable trash."