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• Friday, February 29, 2008 03:24 PM

  @JosieOrtez

  Actually, I consider myself a "Peak Boomer" (born 1957). The cecilbeanie handle comes from high school years. My name is Cecilia but the guys started calling me Cecil. I have a sister who was in h.s. with me and they called her Beanie. Hence, cecilbeanie. I remember that Cecil was a sea serpent but not the seasick part - but that makes sense because it is a great alliteration. Ironically, I don't get seasick. Even more ironic is that St. Cecilia is the patron saint of music - my singing sounds like the mewling of 100s of feral cats!

  Anyway. I believe you are correct and Obama apprarently took the Clinton campaign at its word. So, as promised, I withdraw the photo flap as evidence of covert use of racism by the Clinton campaign. But I don't agree with your take on the photo release.

  It would be risky for the Obama camp to release the photo to make Hillary look bad (i.e., paint her as someone who's willing to stir-up anti-Muslim sentiment to win). The folks were the most angry about the photo were already Obama supporters. Maybe it pulled in some undecideds who were offended by the Muslim=Bad, Barack=Muslim, Barack=Bad equation. But it could just as easily lose him votes because there are folks out there who may be uneasy about voting for Barack Hussein Obama and the photo just might have reinforced that unease.

  I agree the photo made him look funny not scary (shades of Dukakis in the tank). But I do not think that embarassing Obama by releasing a photo where he looks silly was what whoever released the photo intended. No, it was to remind voters that he just might be a Muslim.

  P.S. Hillary's latest TV ad should leave no doubt in anyone's mind that she is willing to use fear-mongering to win. When Hillary said that she was the better candidate to take on the Republicans maybe she misspoke maybe she meant to say that she was the candidate who would make herself most like the Republicans. Is this the real reason Karl Rove left the White House? This looks like his handi-work.

  —cecilbeanie Read cecilbeanie's other letters
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