Dueling Democrat photos! Now they both go native!!

Earlier today, as we noted then, "someone" (the finger, according to Matt Drudge, pointed at the Clinton campaign, a charge the campaign manager did not deny but made fun of) began distributing a photo of Sen. Barack Obama in Kenyan native costume during a visit there.

The Obama campaign arose in indignation, claiming it was part of an ongoing e-mail effort to portray the Illinois senator as a Muslim. Smear job! some cried, presumably because they thought it also negatively emphasized the Democratic candidate's African roots.

Others pointed out quite rightly it's a customary for visitors to dress in native garb during a visit. (Ever seen that famous photo of President Coolidge in an Indian headdress?)

Now, comes a photo of Sen. Hillary Clinton wearing, gasp, a Muslim head covering.

For what's next in the Democratic photo phight, click below.

--Andrew Malcolm

We are indebted to the Houston Chronicle for this one.

Comments

[Cliff Eckman]

The last time I read our constitution, it said something about freedom of religion. A person can choose and practice the religion of ones choice. Barack Obama is obviously a christain but what if he was a muslim. As long as he is the best choice to become president of the United States, and I believe he is the best. The persons religion should not be a factor.

We have many muslim United States citizens and I wonder how they feel when they read this nonsense. What about christian extremists of which there are many? Lets get off of this dirty politics and debate the issues and elect someone that can run the country a lot better than has been done for the last seven plus years.

The Clinton campaign is desperate and so they are throwing caution to the wind. Texas and Ohio do the right thing and give Obama the victories that will solve this problem.

[Yvonne]

I am done with Clinton! I am in shock right now. To make matters worse her divisive politics are attracting other divisive people. One of her supporters stabbed an Obama suporter. Check out http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0225081ortiz1.html. Like him or not - who can deny the fact that Obama has run a consistent and inclusive campaign.

[ClearlyAntiObama]

Thanks for whoever posted the 'muslim photo'
It is time America realizes there's a muslim (or person with muslim ancestry) in the race , this when we still have 911 in memory (caused by only about 20 extremists muslims)

[crystal]

@ ClearlyAntiObama

You should call yourself cleary ignorant.

[Rollo G]

Hillary Clinton does not have a muslim sounding name like Barack Obama or Paula Abdul (a jew).

Every effort is being made by the Karl Rove of the Democratic Party to portray Obama as a muslim affiliate in order to tarnish him before the majority christian population of the USA and deny him their votes.

This sad and desperate woman is really sick and vehemently power-hungry and racist without a doubt.

[Jerry Chui]

In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the "hope of the entire world" that the U.S. will change for the better.

The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours' Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour speech praising the Illinois senator.

"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
HOPE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD-- ha ha ha

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.
FOUNDER OF BLACK MUSLIMS HAD A WHITE MOTHER AND BLACK FATHER LIKE OBAMA-

"A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."

Farrakhan also leveled small jabs at Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, suggesting that she represents the politics of the past and has been engaging in dirty politics.

Farrakhan's keynote address at McCormick Place, the city's convention center, wrapped up three days of events geared at unifying followers and targeting youth.

It had a different tone from a year ago, when Farrakhan made what was called his final public address at a Saviours' Day event in Detroit. The 74-year-old was recovering from complications from prostate cancer and months earlier had temporarily passed on leadership duties of the organization's day-to-day activities to an executive board.

© 2008 Associated Press.

[Lucien BONNET]

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Dueling Democrat photos! Now they both go native!!

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With the candidates focused on Texas, Obama told 17,000 people in Reunion Arena in Dallas
that he agreed with Clinton that there is a choice for Democrats to make.
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LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
Montreal, February 20, 2008

SENATOR OBAMA ,

The whole world has its eyes on you, on The United States Of America and its people.

Everyone expects you to be democratically elected and see that something happen in America.

In March 1983, one of humanity's most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our country - 'Haîti' - and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering:

'Something must change here.'

Today, more than ever, a lot of people of The United States of America stand up, longing for something and working to make something happen.

And, like in March 9, 1983, beloved Haiti, History - (which from then and now on rests in thy hands) - tells thee: 'It is now time to let people speak to thee of love!', let's say today': 'Go thou America ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light.' It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence !'

With this letter, I am communicating with You, Senator Obama, and with the whole people of The United States of America.

You offer this country what it takes to be a 'Wonderfull Land.' Yes, let us say 'with a great people living together.'

Go thou, America, go ahead, following in the footsteps of one of thy sons who is now becoming one of thy statesmen.

With this in mind, Mr.Obama, to whom else could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when he set foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?

That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of Optics.

In the Western world, according to Newton's widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or 'visible' decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or 'invisible' composition.

In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, 'Black Holes' - a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or 'Black Suns' - are a source of energy and light.

That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrum in the form of so-called "white light."

Therefore "absolute blackness", the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton's theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or 'absorbed' form of the energy in question.

Allow me, Senator Obama, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, Doctor of nuclear astrophysics and Scientific Consultant to NASA:

What would have become of the Sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the Universe? [our translation]

Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.

The cosmic fluid is what, due to an "optical mistake", is called "darkness" or the "blackness of space". We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus "The Sea of Space."

What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the "White Sun", a Black Hole or "Black Sun" were injected into that primordial radiation?

According to Einsteinian Physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC2, always.

But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physic. From then on, nothing was the same as before.

The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: "Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the "Quantum spirit", affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait. [our translation]

According to that principle, Black Holes "evaporate." Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes "shine!" Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous "Cosmic Fluid" which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling "Darkness."

Nigra sum "sed" formosa. Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black "and" comely? Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the Universe. Darkness is the "Mother of the Universe."

Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cité Soleil (Sun City).

Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of Optics. That is why, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.

Congratulations to You, Sir, and congratulations to the people of The United States Of America, for having made it possible for this day to mark the beginning of a "New Era of Hope !"

Lucien Bonnet

PLease, SEE :
LETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II
in "BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !"
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca

[Jerome]

When I find interesting is the feigned outrage from the Hillary campaign when they were confronted about the picture. As if to say...That was a beautiful picture of Obama.. he should be proud of it. We did it to HELP him. Shame on him for suggesting otherwise you...you...racists!!

In the words of the legendary Richard Bey...

"Where do they find these people?"

[Jh]

This is not a black - white issue. But Barack Hussein Obama has not substance!! Not a good platform, in fact Hillary Clinton is grasping at straws.

We have made up our minds to VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN, HE KNOWS THE PROBLEMS THE USA FACES, AND THE SECURITY OF OUR COUNTRY. GOD KNOWS WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARE IN A SERIOUS SITUATION AND POLITICALLY SPEAKING WAKE UP AND YOU BETTER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!
I CAME FROM A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY HIGH UP IN POLITICS, AND THEY ARE ALL LEAVING THE DEM'S THIS TIME.

VOTE DEMOCRATIC AND YOU WILL LIVE TO REGRET IT, WAIT AND SEE. WE ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE FOR OBAMA OR CLINTON.....VOTE FOR JOHN MC CAIN!
PS: GO LOOK AT HIS WIFE'S BACKGROUND, SHE LEAVES THE POLITICS TO HER HUSBAND. WHAT A GREAT FIRST LADY SHE WOULD BE...INSPIRING.

RESPECTFULLY JH

[Steve Bradford]

It is true that we have the Constitutionally-protected freedom of religion and Barak Hussein Obama has the freedom to be a Muslim if he chooses. I spent 15 years in the Navy to protect that freedom. But by the same token, we as Americans have the freedom, the responsibility, to dismiss him as an option. We are not fighting Iraqis or Middle Easterners, we are fighting the Muslim idealogy that says "Kill the Infidels". Wake up! We are "the infidels"! What kind of an idiot would even suggest that a Muslim should be elected into the most powerful position in the world?!
I am a Republican and I am self-employed. But I will vote for what is best for my country. Not who puts the most money in my pocket, not what makes my life more comfortable, not for who will make it so that I don't have to work. I would vote for Clinton or Obama if I thought that either was the best answer for the United States of America.
What would have been the response if a German had run for president during WWI or a Japanese during WWII or a Korean during the Korean War or a Vietnamese during the Vietnam War? Wake Up America!! WE'RE AT WAR!!