I've defended Barack Obama here and at the other site from racist attacks and insinuations about his family, patriotism, and religion. I won't get into that again, except the attacks continue to come hard and heavy.

Now it's the desperate Clinton campaign playing this despicable card.

Matt Drudge has a news flash about Clinton staffers, panicked as they trail in the delegate count and the polls in Texas and Ohio, circulating a photo of Senator Obama during a 2006 visit to Kenya.



"Wouldn't we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?" questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.



Well, I recall the fall out when she kissed Soha Arafat in 1999 and only reactively distanced herself from Mrs Arafat's conspiracy theories that Israelis were poisoning Palestinian children. In a book published during her race for the senate, she also was quoted calling her husband's former campaign manager a "fucking Jew bastard" following a failed run for Congress in 1974. In an attempt at damage control, Mrs Clinton appeared with Jewish supporters including Congresswoman Nita Lowey and said, "I have spent a lifetime devoted to increasing tolerance. This never happened."

The same article linked previously quotes Bill Clinton as saying, "My wife has never, ever uttered an ethnic or racial slur against anybody, ever."

Now her campaign has. During her debate appearance here last week, Senator Clinton spoke in almost resigned tone and conciliation that she was honored to share the platform with Senator Obama. Maybe she should act like it for the rest of the campaign and make sure her surrogates and staffers do as well.