Obama camp slams Clinton team on controversial photo



(CNN) — Barack Obama’s campaign accused Hillary Clinton’s team Monday of circulating a photo of the Illinois senator donning traditional Somali attire – clothing worn by area Muslims – as a goodwill gesture during an overseas trip.


In a statement, the Clinton campaign called the charge “an obvious and transparent attempt to distract” voters from serious issues – but did not issue a denial.

The picture, which appeared on the Drudge Report this morning, was attributed to sources within the Clinton campaign – although the Web site did not reveal how many, or who, might have received the photo.

In a statement, Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, said Clinton’s campaign was engaged in “shameful, offensive fear-mongering,” though he did not point to any proof beyond the original item that appeared on Matt Drudge’s blog.

“This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire,” said Plouffe. “and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world."

Earlier this year, some Clinton volunteers left her campaign in those states after circulating e-mails that falsely claimed Barack Obama was a Muslim – an inaccurate rumor his campaign has worked hard to dispel — and suggesting that his drug use as a young man might make him vulnerable to Republican attacks were he to become the nominee.

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Clinton has become desperate and it shows!

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Clinton's response to the day's Drudge

It's not quite Dukasis's "tank" photo, but it'll probably work with the uneducated...

The real question is whether the amount of people angered by the photo itself will overcome the amount of people angered by the perceived context...

I think Obama should say this is a "Karl Rove tactic"...

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I have a whacked out neighbor who has been convinced that Obama is a radical Muslim. This photo only confirms his delusions..

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If wearing the garb is OK a picture of him wearing it should also be. After all nobody forced him to wear it. It ain't like Dukakis and his helmet. He put it on and there is a picture. So what?
I had a perm in my hair during my wedding. I would like to destroy those pics too.

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