Hillary Clinton Exposes Barack Obama

Hillary Clinton is doing what the Clintons do best, digging up dirt on a political opponent. This time Barack Obama has been exposed. It’s rumored he is a Muslim, as if his name wasn’t enough of a clue, but this picture appears to say a little more. NY Post reports:

The Clinton campaign is circulating a photo of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama dressed in the clothing of a Somali elder, according to the Drudge Report.

The photo was taken in 2006 during Obama’s visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, Drudge reported.

Obama’s campaign manager said the Clinton campaign’s decision to send the photo out is "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering" moment of campaign, Politico.com reported.

"On the very day that Sen. 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," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement, according to Politico. "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."

Politico wrote that the Clinton campaign didn’t deny that it circulated the photo but declined to comment further.

Back when John F. Kennedy was running for President, many people were uncomfortable with a Catholic in the White House. Mitt Romney also ran into resistance while running for President, because some people were uncomfortable with him being a Mormon. Now Hillary isn’t trying to make people uncomfortable with the thought of a black man as President, but instead with the thought that a suspected Muslim might become President during a time when we are fighting Muslim extremists. It’s dirty politics, but that’s what the Clintons are best at.