I heard about this a couple of days and I kind of suspended judgement on it – but now the Clinton campaign is lying to Fox news about it…and there’s obviously something to it. Read this Daily Kos diary for a lot of detail.
Daily Kos: Clinton campaign making Obama “blacker”
And as Troutnut said…
Make of that what you will. I think it’s more likely to be incidental than the color changes: they squished it to fit in exactly one half of a wide screen. They could have just cropped it rather than distorting it, though, and they didn’t.
I’m not accusing Hillary of technically being a racist. But she is cynically exploiting racism to further her personal ambition, and it’s part of a pattern. She’s doing it to a fellow Democrat who’s virtually certain to be the nominee.
Daily Kos: [UPDATE w/campaign response]
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