Obama in Mississippi--opponent leaks photo & I'll twist her words

[candice]

On the campaign trail in Mississippi, Obama blames the Clinton campaign for publicizing the photo showing him in tribal costume. How did this photo get out there? Wouldn't it be someone Obama knows? There's probably more to be gained by someone who took the photo than the Clinton campaign.

As Clinton's campaign manager Maggie Williams says, it's common for politicians to travel overseas and get photographed in native costume. (I've done it myself as a regular tourist.) Why doesn't Obama just educate people who haven't had the opportunity to experience other cultures? What kind of ignorant fool would be afraid of Obama in this costume--it wouldn't rank as a scary Halloween costume? He looks sweet. As a uniter, he needed to educate poor fools who might be frightened of him in that costume.

I read that the photo was passed around "Free Republic" and was sent over to Drudge. By attributing it to the Clinton campaign, Drudge could get more hits--post-Bush and with McCain, does Drudge matter?

Obama campaigning in Mississippi: "When in the midst of a campaign you decide to throw the kitchen sink at your opponent because you're behind," he said, "and your campaign starts leaking photographs of me when I'm traveling overseas wearing the native clothes of those folks to make people afraid, and 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."

But neither is his radio ad (see below) real change (nor taking lobbyists' monies via surrogates while claiming not to take "one dime.")

Back in Iowa, Senator Clinton said: “How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That’s not the quality. That’s not the communitarianism, that’s not the openness I see in Iowa.” This is a remark about lack of women leadership in states like Iowa and Mississippi, not what the Obama ad asserts--calling voters "second class."


Flash forward to Mississippi--the campaign of Barack Obama is airing a 60 second radio spot in Mississippi. It attacks Hillary Clinton for past remarks about the lack of women in leadership in states like Iowa and Mississippi. And affirms Obama's "Christian faith."

The reported ad's script is:

"You know, now that Hillary Clinton is campaigning here in Mississippi, she likes to say how important we are," Mabus
"But just a few months ago when she was campaigning in Iowa, she told them she was shocked Iowa could be ranked with Mississippi on anything. And her campaign even called voters in states like Mississippi 'second class'.

"Obama will unite not divide", Governor Mabus continues. "He'll take on special interest and not take their money. And he'll practice his Christian faith by respecting us."

[provis99]

1. "what kind of ignorant fool would be afraid of Obama in these costumes?"

Plenty of ignorant fools; ignorant fools make up most of the national electorate. Thats why things that seem silly to us matter to the average idiotic voter. As for educating them about different cultures, that's a dead issue. That kind of "education" stuff goes way over the average idiot's head.