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Not 'clear' in any way that the Hillary Clinton campaign sent the photo to Drudge and no such 'confirmation' since Drudge himself said he "obtained" a copy of an email about it.

I've posted about that before but what's "clear" is that not only was it already on the Net for some time but that a new version of the photo was scanned by a member of a conservative forum and uploaded the same day, two days before Drudge got word about it, and Drudge was a member of that forum.

It was much discussed and reposted there for those two days previous to Drudge's statement on his own site.

If interested in the details of who scanned and uploaded it during that time, see

I almost hesitate to leave anything here, among some of the cruft I see above me (not that some don't stand out). But just as a point of order, conceding that Clinton herself knew nothing of the photo and then later saying that her *campaign staff* leaked it is not a flip-flop. He said her staff did it, and she didn't know; and there is nothing in either of those statements that goes against that.

When Obama was elected as President of the Harvard Law review, he told reporters at the time that his father was the "Finance Minister" of Kenya. In fact he was a bureaucrat. He told reporters that his mother was an anthropologist. I guess that sounded better than describing her as a "ditzy woman who abandoned her family to pursue relationships with men all over the Pacific". He was an adult when he invented his background. He has an authenticity problem.

It's not his "heritage". His father's family is from the west of Kenya. Those robes are what nomads on the Somalia border wear, hundreds of miles to the east.

If Obama wanted to "get past" the photo, he would not have brought it up on 3/10 when other news has taken it's place. But since he's in a strong AA voting state, he turns up the fan on racial baiting. Oh yeah, you're soooo above it BO!

The photo is a negative for Obama due to the malicious intent of the person who brought it to light. He's right to want to get past it and concentrate on more important things. Besides- what's he supposed to do; play her game and say "Shame on you, Hillary"? The double standard in this contest is ridiculous.

Why is Obama offended by the picture in question ? Is he not proud of his heritage ?

I don't think Obama could find China, Kosovo, Iraq, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland on the map. These are places that Clinton actually visited and had an impact in causing change.

lets see now Gov Rendell (aka FAST EDDIE) tells america Some in pa still won't vote for a black man . Geraldine Ferraro saying Obama where he is because he is Black???? Both of these people are clinton suppporters and their job is to run interference for the candidate. Throw it out there if it sticks keep using it if it doesn't tha candidate can back away and disavow the comments ... Same old Clinton's Same Old Politics. As a side note Gov Rendell is where he is today for 1 reason and 1 reason only and that is because Frank Rizzo Died because if he hadn't Gov Rendell would have never been the mayor of Phila his stepping stone to the governors job

How difficult is it to find his lie about NAFTA? Also, when you have NO record you don't have much to answer to. I believe that's the point in this race.

He just didn't want to ADMIT what most of us knew, that they were responsible. Are the folks at DRUDGE lying when they say it came from her people? And if her people didn't leak it, then why did two of them get fired?

He either didn't want to admit it so he appears above the frey or he didn't think it was worthy of mentioning. However, I'm sure now he has a change of heart given some of her tactics and the fact that people think he is weak and nieve. It is about time he is showing people he can get just as dirty as that gutter campaign on the other side of the track.

John McCain has infinite patience with the media. He loves them and they love him. Count the number of negative McCain articles on this site over the past four months.

It is somewhat amazing to me how far the media must stretch the definition of a flip flop or lie to pin one on Obama so they can look fair to Hillary for what she is saying outright. No wonder John McCain has no patience with you.

Obama is a liar. The Palm Beach Post reports today that the photo was in the Globe magazine in May of 2007 and has been circulating ever since. God help us if Obama the liar gets anywhere near the red phone.

Tiger,

Florida will be voting for McCain and Gov. Christ so Dems should not spend a dime on the foolish transplanted New Yorkers who think they can carry that State. They should pay the cost of their Egos.

It's obvious the Obama supporters are far smarter than those of Hillary. The two statements are not inconsistent in any way. A number of responses have already highlighted the difference in the two statements. I'm not surprised at the level of stupidity the Obama-haters are displaying in their logic.

Holy cow… flipping on believing in Hillary’s honesty must have been agonizing.

p.s. Aside from the fact that "Hillary not knowing" and "your campaign starts leaking photos" are not mutually exclusive.

"And lastly, Obama is NOT ahead. He has not won any swing state that will be important in an election. He had better not try to "steal" this nomination by continuing to block allowing Michigan and Florida -- which went for Clinton."

Scorb you sound like an idiot. Everyone knows that Obama is ahead and IT is the only reason why Clinton is lobbying to get the results from Michigan and Florida! But she will never get the results because they broke the rules, if anything they may have a new caucus or primary but who knows if that's possible. The way this woman is trying to steal delegates is very sad, she knew the rules and so did the 2 states but now it's an issue because she's behind, how pathetic. Obama is AHEAD and she has the GALL to offer the VP to him, how absurd, talk about the AUDACITY OF HOPE! But I guess she was hoping that the rest of the country was just as delusional as you are.

Likely what changed between those two statements, over the intervening two weeks, is that Sen. Obama has come to realize -- in seeing Sen. Clinton backtrack on earlier agreements on FL & MI voting, obfuscate and qualify Sen. Obama's Christian background, propagate erroneous reporting emanating from a Conservative government in Canada, and promotion of a Republican candidate for President -- Sen. Clinton's word isn't something to be relied-upon.