There is no doubt that Hilary Clinton and her team are now shooting their last bullets in the campaign for presidency. They lost by using conventional ways and they have opted for non-conventional ones, including exhuming ‘private’ pictures that could influence the views of Americans on Barack Obama.
In my view, Obama could turn the pictures in his advantage and his communications advisors should work on that. He has never denied having Kenya blood. He is even proud of it. Wearing a Muslim turban only 5 years after 11 September is not perhaps the best inspiration an American statesman with presidential ambition should have. But so what?
Obama’s team would use this picture to reassure American citizens that he is someone with a great understanding of religious problems in the world. The picture should be added to his argument that he voted against the war in Iraq, a war that contributed to the aggravation of the religious malaise.
What if Obama should come out with pictures about Bill Clinton’s infidelity? Is Hilary’s couple a good example for American couples? What is the debate starts discussing about issues like: how can we trust a woman who can’t satisfy her husband to the extend of pushing him to extra-marital relations?
This is to say that shifting from politics to private life would rather harm Hilary than her challenger.
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