By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--September 20, 2015
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“Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). "The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya," the Drudge Report said. The photo created huge buzz in political circles and immediately became known as "the 'dressed' photo," reflecting the Drudge terminology.
“Trump critics -- including fellow GOP White House candidate South Carolina Sen Lindsey Graham -- have tried to use the exchange at the New Hampshire event Thursday night to knock back the GOP presidential front-runner and billionaire businessman.”Everyone’s suddenly in on the act, including the newly PR-switched Megyn Kelly, trying to score brownie points for Obama over at the cable television network that’s making Trump the main fox chased by the progressive hounds. Controlled by the alphabet television networks, the RNC who are willing to pay to have their presidential hopefuls ridiculed by celebrity commentators like Kelly and Jake Tapper, is blithely foisting Carly Fiorina on Republican voters until they can find the right moment to put Jeb Bush back out in front. They’re trying to count their chickens before they hatch, and are pushing out the message that The Donald is through:
“Critics also have suggested Trump backed out of an event Friday evening in early-voting state South Carolina to avoid the controversy. The Trump campaign has said Trump had to attend to a business deal that had been delayed. (FoxNews) “On Saturday, the bombastic Trump also tweeted: "This is the first time in my life that I have caused controversy by NOT saying something." “His next tweet was: "If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue? No chance!" “He also argued the media would have accused him of interfering with the man's right of free speech, tweeting “a no win situation!" “At the town hall style event Thursday, the unidentified man said: "We have a problem in this country. It's called Muslim. … You know our current president is one. You know he's not even an American." “A seeming surprised Trump said: "We need this question? This is the first question?" “Campaign manager Corey Lewandowski later said Trump only heard and responded to the later part of the man’s question about Muslim training camps in the United States.”The Trump rally attendee was hardly the first to contend that Obama is a Muslim. The charge that the president is a Muslim has been going the rounds for the past seven years, in fact ever since the Clinton campaign gave it oxygen. It’s the chatter around the office water cooler, the barbershop and does a brisk business on the D.C. cocktail circuit. Imagine the same mainstream media who never vetted Obama going after Trump and a rally attendee for saying what so many others have been saying all along. The truth is that we just don’t know who Barack Obama really is, never did, and likely never will until he’s long gone out of office. That was the way it was planned when the DNC introduced the community organizer from the faux Greek columns in Denver back in 2008. We don’t know whether Obama’s a Muslim, a Viking or an alien from another planet. All we know for sure is that he wants to take America down. That’s the way it is. “It is,” as the millennials would say, “what it is”. Meanwhile, Trump, who in year’s past questioned whether Obama has a U.S. birth certificate, said in a New York Times interview published Friday that “the bigger issue is that Obama is waging a war against Christians in this country." Now that the Pope is on his way to America, it’s over to you, Francis.
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