Wasn’t This a Side Plot in ‘Mean Girls’?

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The primaries for Ohio and Texas are fast approaching. Tensions are high between Hillary and Obama. Unless Hillary scores these last two states, she’s pretty much ether.

So after Hillary went all Exorcist on Obama about some slanted flyers his campaign disseminated — pretty normal fare in a political death match — we were like, Okay, the girl has snapped. It’s over.

Then this picture of Obama wearing Somali garb surfaces. And instead of going “Uh, yeah, Obama’s dad was African — is that a problem?”, camp Obama goes apeshit and accuses camp Hillary of smearing their Fearless Leader in the last dregs of this doomed pissing contest.

So of course the Hillary people are all like, “If Barack Obama’s campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed.” (To be fair, the campaign manager refused to address whether her staffers actually disseminated the image.)

The Democrats have gone mad! Is this the year Ralph Nader actually gets a vote?

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