Obama Somali Elder dress photo.......

[TheDebbieDee]

I read a post here on DU earlier today the photo was originally published in the February 4, 2008 issue of a national magazine.

Can anyone post a link to this magazine?

Thanks for the link, Kurt_Hunter.

The photo causing all the hullaballoo was printed in the Feb 4, 2008 edition of National Examiner Magazine, here:



Drudge could have picked up the picture there. Or any reader of the magazine could have forwarded the picture to Drudge.

[babylonsister]

1. Somali? You post your link w/that info first. nt

[MADem]

6. Of course it's Somali. He was in Kenya, on the Somali border.

U.S. Senator Barack Obama, right, is dressed as a Somali Elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. The area is at the epicenter of a severe drought that has hit the Horn of Africa region, after erratic and insufficient rains during the April-June season

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. three links here:

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/02/the_photo_cont.php

[LisaL]

3. According to that link, it was actually published in 2006.

[MADem]

5. In an African publication

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

[ingac70]

4. The National Examiner...

A tabloid like the National Enquirer. Can't find a link right now....

[TacticalPeek]

7. K & R

:kick:

[jefferson_dem]

8. Why?

n/t

[denem]

9. Somali is dog whistle for unwanted immigrants in Columbus Ohio

There are approx 40,000 in the Columbus area. Its a RW talking point here that Somalis are refugees who have not been tested for HIV.

THATS why this poster mentioned Somali, when it's not in the article and Obama was being photographed in Kenya. IT'S THE OHIO ELECTION STUPID.

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[Occam Bandage]

14. Classy. nt

[Hoof Hearted]

15. So let me make sure we've all got ths straight.

You are saying that the OP used the word Somali, because they thought that huge numbers of weak-minded persons - from Columbus Ohio - who have been brainwashed by right-wing influences - would just happen to be logged into DU - and read this post on GDP and say to themselves "Oh my GAWDS! Did somebody say SOMALI!?! Well that settles it! No more votes for Obama!"

You're trying to take one piece of bubblegum and stretch it to the moon.

[Occam Bandage]

10. The photo's been in existence since '06. Nobody claims her campaign created that photo.

[denem]

11. No but it turned up at Drudge just before the Ohio primary

and there just happens to be significant racial tensions involving Somalis in Columbus. Somalis have been demonized by the RW here.

[Occam Bandage]

12. Not just the RW.

There are deep tensions between Somalis and African-Americans as well.