Ethics

Clinton Campaign Hits Rock Bottom

By Ed Brayton

Exactly how stupid does Hillary Clinton think we are? Her campaign sent a picture out to reporters of Barack Obama dressed in a traditional Somali outfit while on a tour of Africa a couple years ago on the pretense that if that was Hillary in the picture it would be on the cover of every magazine. This was an obvious attempt to get that picture out there to help reinforce the false perception that Obama is some sort of secret Muslim.

But to make things worse, when the Obama campaign responded and called it exactly what it was, her campaign manager feigned total innocence and shock that Obama would suggest that being dressed in local garb might be a bad thing:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).