Things appear to be getting desperate in the US if politicians are characterised as "Islamic" (as if that is a negative) based upon a silly photo taken on a junket. Per Matt Drudge:
With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a "dressed" Barack Obama.The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.
The senator was on a five-country tour of Africa. "Wouldn't we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?" questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.
In December, the campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe quickly accused the Clinton campaign Monday of 'shameful offensive fear-mongering' for circulating the snap.
Like it has never happened before:
US President Bill Clinton, wearing in traditional Senegalese clothing, and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, listen to ''griot'' or village storytellers of the Dal Diam village about 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of Dakar, during a tour of the area of sustained recovery from drought Wednesday April 1, 1998. Senegal is Clinton's last port of call on his six-nation tour of Africa, and he will return to the US on Thursday. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
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