Makes me wanna holler...

I was simply seething when I heard about this last night - apparently, staffers from the desperate-ass Clinton campaign have been circulating a 2006 photo of Barack Obama on a visit to Africa, in traditional Somali dress that he received as a gift.

Now, we KNOW what this is about. We know it. But of course, the Clinton campaign issued a disingenous non-denial denial, with campaign manager Maggie Williams trying to turn it around on the Obama camp:

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.

Ooooh...oooh....ohhh...breathe...woooooosahhh!

Not working.

Bitch puh-leese! Don't act like you don't know what is offensive about this. It is not the picture itself, it is the intent behind the distribution of the picture. It is the fact that Obama has been the victim of a disgusting, Islamophobic, xenophobic smear campaign and this ties right into what the crazies want to believe. I bet they're gleefully including this pic in the latest round of their smear emails now.

I am simply...astounded at the dirtiness of the Clinton campaign. Not being an American or even living there, I used to wonder about the vitriol aimed at the Clintons and wondered why people seemed to be so rabidly against them. Really I had dismissed it as right-wing hating.

But these kind of tactics...against their OWN. It's unbelievably nasty. No wonder...