# Obama In A Turban **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188 "2008-02-26T04:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/21 "2008-02-26T19:08:07Z")
[QUOTE=Slypork] Does [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwisQkmpqmQ&mode=related&search=) mean that Dubya is going to join a Liberian dance troop after he leaves office? [/QUOTE] Hopefully. That would be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/22 "2008-02-26T19:17:42Z")
Can’t dance. Can’t jump. Can’t govern. White men suck. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/23 "2008-02-26T19:21:33Z")
HRC is waiting for March 3 to trot out her picture of him wearing his “My good friend Osama bombed NYC and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/24 "2008-02-26T20:46:11Z")
I acknowledge the issue isn’t proven, but I will tell you why I feel it’s at least likely that someone in the Clinton camp was responsible: the tepid non-denial from the Clinton camp. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/25 "2008-02-26T21:22:18Z")
News flash! Celine Dion is a [Zulu!!!](http://www.ecorazzi.com/2008/02/16/celine-dions-heart-will-go-on-in-south-africa/) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/26 "2008-02-26T21:26:18Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] Apparently he’s fathered two black children. [/QUOTE] And he’s the only candidate who could do that by having an affair with a White woman! His deviousness has no end!! ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/27 "2008-02-26T21:38:49Z")
[QUOTE=Bricker] I acknowledge the issue isn’t proven, but I will tell you why I feel it’s at least likely that someone in the Clinton camp was responsible: the tepid non-denial from the Clinton camp. [/QUOTE] Agreed. How much time do you really think they are going to spend investigating, anyway? They can’t be bothered, since I imagine they already know the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/28 "2008-02-26T21:51:47Z")
[QUOTE=you with the face] Has Obama said that it came from Clinton? [/QUOTE] Yes. Plouffe came out firing deriding the Clinton camp: > [@](#): > > Plouffe said in a statement: “On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election. This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire, and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world,” said Plouffe. No matter what you think of Clinton’s campaign - and they certainly might deserve to be looked at askance for their incompetence in many aspects of this campaign - they would have to be incredibly, cosmically stupid to think that this would be a good idea. It could have easily gotten to Drudge in any number of ways if someone in the Clinton campaign did indeed want to smear Obama, not pointing back at the campaign. If you visit [mydd.com](http://mydd.com) and other sites on the blogosphere you’ll see that the picture was up on FreeRepublic Saturday and commenters suggested that someone send it to Drudge. In reality, Obama’s campaign should apologize for accusing the Clinton campaign of sending the picture without proof beside Drudge’s word. (And yes, Maggie Williams’ first response should have stated that any staffer sending pictures, etc. off-message would be disciplined/shitcanned. I know she used that vague language because it would be easy to slam the campaign if indeed, Wingnut Campaign Peon #700 sent it off in an alcohol-induced haze.) Because if the threshold is “Drudge said it!” it is going to be a long season for BO. I have a feeling there’s going to be all kinds of weird stuff sprouting on that site, and all the RWers have to say is, “Hey, Obama trusts Drudge, so it’s probably true.” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/29 "2008-02-26T22:11:04Z")
[Here’s](http://wonkette.com/360938/hijab-hillary-mrs-clinton-wears-muslim-thing) a cute Wonkette post with pictures of the Clintons doing what heads of state do, which is to dress up in silly costumes. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/30 "2008-02-27T01:10:08Z")
Isn’t that actually more of a Sikh style turban? ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/31 "2008-02-27T03:23:20Z")
I’m glad to see that Fox News at least corrected their original story accompanying the photo: > [@](#): > > Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign would neither confirm nor deny rumors that her aides were responsible for TP’ing Barack Obama. Regardless, this image is highly disturbing in its implication that Obama might secretly harbor sympathies toward the Shriners. In these trying times, does America really need a president who might don a fez and run amok in a miniature car at any moment, chucking handfuls of hard candy in the faces of bystanding children? Of course, there is an alternative: candidate John McCain’s combover can be trusted to slide loose immediately as a safety feature, should he for any reason momentarily succumb to the urge to wear undignified ethnic headgear. McCain’s scalp is rigorously designed to self-destruct entirely before it embarrasses America with dubious foreign haberdashery. Who, then, is the true heir to Reagan’s legacy of change? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/32 "2008-02-27T04:18:41Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Isn’t that actually more of a Sikh style turban? [/QUOTE] Any knuckledraggers who can be swayed by this picture won’t be making that sort of nice distinction. Turban = towelhead = Muslim = terrorist. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/33 "2008-02-27T09:57:17Z")
You know, the more I think about this, the stupider it seems. If anything, that Obama would wear traditional African dress in Africa makes me _more_ likely to vote for him. In my opinion, this is what America needs - a leader who respects other cultures and is willing to try something new (a new food, a different style of dress) in order to show that respect. A leader whose first impulse on seeing something different isn’t to want to bomb it. It’s disgusting that some people appear to find his respect for foreign cultures a negative. What a bunch of turds. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/34 "2008-02-27T12:13:00Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] It’s disgusting that some people appear to find his respect for foreign cultures a negative. [/QUOTE] Show some respect, that’s part of our culture. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/35 "2008-02-27T14:53:51Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] Show some respect, that’s part of our culture. 😉 [/QUOTE] I laughed at this. Then I thought it over. Then I wept. ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/36 "2008-02-27T16:28:35Z")
This story just breaking at Fox News: Hillary in a blue dress. Film at eleven. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/37 "2008-02-27T19:59:31Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] Hopefully. That would be awesome. [/QUOTE] Well, even better would be if he resigned to join them BEFORE January, and took Dick with him… ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/38 "2008-02-27T20:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] White men suck. [/QUOTE] Well, some of us do… ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/39 "2008-02-27T20:37:32Z")
It’s for the best that things like this get released early on. If this is all the dirt they have on Obama then I feel pretty confident about November. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188/40 "2008-02-27T21:27:09Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] Well, I’m offended by [this picture of George Bush in a kimono!](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2007/07/02/bushputin191106_228x334-thumb.jpg) [/QUOTE] They look like they’re going in for x-rays. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-in-a-turban/439188.md?page=3)