With one week to go before the Texas and Ohio primaries, there are pictures circulating of Barack Obama dressed in the local garb of a Somali Muslim. The Obama camp is apparently accusing the Clinton camp of circulating the 2006 photo in an attempt to put fear in the hearts of American’s.
The Drudge Report posted the Obama photo and others of Hillary Clinton, hubby Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, all wearing ceremonial get up while visiting foreign countries.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Maggie Williams had this to say about the accusations that their camp was behind an attempted smear campaign:
“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.”
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