This is not a political blog, but I couldn’t help this one – maybe partly because of the cultural ignorance displayed by the following photo, or of the fearmongering that I hope my travels and writings can help fight. So:
There is nothing short of meteoric about Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Nothing short of a chappaquiddick, I believe, will stop him from sitting in the Oval Office a few shorts months from now. The rather desperate response from his current opponent? Circulating this picture:
This is Barack Obama trying on traditional dress from Western Kenya, during a visit to his father’s homeland. One might conclude that he is well-traveled, in touch with his roots, even worldly. So why would a Clinton supporter post such a photo? Let’s cut to it: the Clinton supporters who would pass around this photo do so in hopes that the average American is dumb enough to look at Obama wearing a turban and make some fuzzy connection between him to the turban-wearing terrorists of whom Americans are currently so terrified.
Pathetic. No, Mrs. Clinton and friends, we are not that dumb.
If you only knew how bad it actually is on the ground . . . !