Speaking of outfits, what’s up with the Clinton campaign sending out this photo? I have to agree with Amy on this one, these tactics are beneath her. Hercampaign’s response is below the fold:
UPDATE: Clinton campaign’s second response is also below the fold:
Enough.
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.
‚ÄúWe have over 700 people on staff. I don‚Äôt know if someone on our staff sent it out or not,” Elleithee said. ‚ÄúIf someone on our staff makes the point that we are treated differently by the press than Sen. Obama, we agree with that sentiment. We don‚Äôt think there‚Äôs anything wrong with this photo. Sen. Clinton has herself, while traveling abroad, dressed in traditional, local dress. And there‚Äôs nothing divisive about that.”
He also tried to push back at Obama: “We think it is wrong for the Obama campaign to say that this is divisive photo. It‚Äôs not a divisive photo.”
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