Limbo

Some waves after a picture of Barack Obama wearing traditional Ethiopian clothing during a 2006 diplomatic visit (including, natch, a turban) were shot out of somebody's rectum, somewhere, and found their way onto the Drudge Report earlier today.

All indications are that it was released by a staffer with Hillary Clinton's campaign - which in recent weeks has increasingly used manipulative, lowdown and sometimes just plain stupid tactics to try to get its digs in where it can on the current frontrunner. This includes last week's accusations of speech-stealing.

But what really frosted my balls was reading the response offered by Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams:

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.

[From Politico]

So lemme get this straight: Clinton staffer releases inflammatory pictures and attaches inflammatory implications. When Obama camp responds with 'WTF?' Clinton's official word becomes, 'So what do you have against Muslims anyway, huh? Our candidate would be honored if your campaign were to call her a closet Muslim.'

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reading about zombies, Hollywood shenanigans and football.