Can someone explain this picture to me please?
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I guess this is new? What does it mean?
I'd post it here but it doesn't allow me.
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs124&d=08091&f=barack_hussein_obama665.jpg
I'd post it here but it doesn't allow me.
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs124&d=08091&f=barack_hussein_obama665.jpg
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what is there to explain?
Read here:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8667.html
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign Monday of "shameful offensive fear-mongering" by circulating a photo as an attempted smear.
Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
"The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya," the Drudge Report said. The photo created huge buzz in political circles and immediately became known as "the 'dressed' photo," reflecting the Drudge terminology.
Plouffe said in a statement: “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. 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," said Plouffe.
The Clinton campaign issued an official response to the growing tempest - but the statement from campaign manager Maggie Williams did not respond to the central question of whether staffers circulated the photo.
“Enough,” Williams said in the statement. “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.
“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.”
that's what they wear in kenya. it's not uncommon for politicians. to try on the local garments of the countries they visit. his father is kenyan.
there's nothing to explain. the only thing that needs to be explained is why are so many people such ridiculous biggots
The fact that your link puts his middle name in there shows how biased of a photo it really is. It's a traditional garment. Get over your racist self. I bet if his name was Dave or Randy you would have no problem with him.
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Not a big deal. Americans often where the local garb when visiting as a sign of respect.
Check it out at the bottom of this link:
http://drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm
Unfortunately, you speak the truth. Blonde hair and blue eyes would also be helpful. Please know I'm not trying to be rude to the OP. The fearmongering (sp?) conducted by the current administration has successfully amplified many peoples distrust of any person with dark hair, dark eyes and an Islamic name imho.
And yes, I know that the only people to fly airplanes into the Twin Towers matched that physical description. In the same vein, I don't want personal judgments about me based on the 19 worst short, middle aged housewives one could find in America!
LOL...perfect response.
"those are balls."
What's even more pathetic is that he was in Kenya doing charity work. i think this may be hillary's "Dean scream".
George Michael: "Hey, I've seen that before"
(Shows Tobias climbing onto top bunk in his never nude cutoffs)
George Michael: "You know, there is a ladder"
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what does it mean? did you really just ask that? were you a member of the swiftboat veterans for truth?
Actually I'm wondering why he will go to another country and show respect to them by wearing their clothes yet he refuses to wear the American flag of the one he is running for President in.
Obama has stopped wearing the American flag pin that is seen adorning just about every politician in this country.
Why? Because since 9/11, Obama told an Iowa TV station, the pin has become "a substitute" for "true patriotism."
He's right.
And it's going to be interesting to see how many "patriotic conservative" pundits come out of the woodwork to condemn him about this. I think Obama is doing something perfectly conservative: he's choosing not to wrap himself up in the flag and portray phony patriotism. Obama's patriotism, if it's really there, is going to be on display for whatever it is. For however the voters choose to accept it or reject it. Which is just as it should be.
In all honesty, I hate those stupid little American flag pins. And I think that elected officials or those running for office are shallow and tacky when they wear them. I didn't wear one when I ran for school board, and I'll never wear one if I ever run for office again. If some prospective voter thinks less of me on that basis, I won't care and wouldn't have wanted their vote to begin with. I'd rather win an election based on my beliefs and ideas, not cheap theatrics or gaudy decorations.
Because the fact of the matter is, I still do believe in what the American flag stands for - or what it used to stand for - too much than to want to use it to hide my own shortcomings.
But it's this kind of use of the American flag, like wearing it as jewelry, that has almost completely robbed the flag of any meaning whatsoever.
The American flag is not our own version of the Blutfahne. In fact, there is nothing very special or significant about the American flag itself, at all. There is no intrinsic value or power imbued in the thing. And yet many Americans - and too many politicians - hide behind it as if it were the Shield of Perseus.
We've come to think that it guards us when facing evil. In truth we use the American flag to guard against facing ourselves.
If the American flag is to have meaning, it's only going to be because the American people have given it meaning, first.
So folks, what exactly can we say, that we have given this flag?
Because I don't know how we can still be proud of this flag, when we dare fly it while we keep surrendering the freedoms that too many of our ancestors fought and died for us to have. The American flag does not give us freedom. The American flag can't give us freedom.
Without that freedom, it's just a worthless scrap of cloth. That's practically all it is now.
And we're not going to regain that freedom by slavishly following after some power-mad lunatic in a suit and a silly flag pin.
Do you think they are even made in America?
Guess we better throw John McCain under the un-patriotic bus too.
http://lighthousepatriotjournal.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/senator-john-mccain.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/phoenix/1/0/_/_/mccain13.jpg
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2004/08/31/2mccain.jpg
http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/imagefolder/johnmccain.jpg
http://www.registers1.com/mccain/images/mccain.jpg
http://updatecenter.britannica.com/eb/image?binaryId=102141&rendTypeId=4
http://www.russiablog.org/McCainJohnFoxNewsSunday.jpg
http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article/files/sinderbrand_mccain.jpg
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.jpg
http://www.flipfloppers.org/images/mccain.jpg
I got four pages in to a images.google.com search of "John McCain" and gave up on finding a picture of him with the sacred pin. Let's just get it out of the way, and you don't like the thought of a black dude with a muslim dad as your President.
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i do not care about a candidates religion or their spouse... at all
heheh funny
i was under the impression it was incredibly disrespectful to drape oneself in the american flag.
OMG he wore a turban! OMG He doesn't wear the American flag!
Pathetic. Especially since the ones wearing that stupid flag pin have done more harm to the US than anyone else.
Oh, and I know you're a fucking American. I pay attention. Take off the pin and prove that you love your country and not just the bump it gives your image.
I'll tell the troops that the next time I head to Iraq.
I wouldn't vote for McCain either. Try again.
What candidate of yours proudly defaces our flag by wearing it on their jacket?
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*If wearing a small metal object that resembles a flag (Made in China) while engaging in no activity where ones country of origin is not in doubt counts as patriotism.
its a pic of Obama after a particularly bad attempt at using toilet roll.
this thread is patriotism gone mad