Barack Obama was NOT wearing a “turbine”!

Posted on | 27 February 2008 | 3 Comments

Monday, when I wrote about the picture reportedly leaked by the Hillary Clinton campaign that showed Barack Obama in a turban, I explained that the picture was Obama in tribal clothes as part of an official visit.

The picture to the left is not the one in question; I cannot afford the rights AP would charge. It is me in my shesh from Morocco. The shesh is a form of turban.

Then, I wrote the following:

Of course, that has nothing to do with why the photo is so popular with Obama’s opponents. There, in living color, is Barack HUSSEIN Obama with one of them thar Muzelum hats on. You know, a turbine! It proves that B. HUSSEIN O. is another one of them thar radical Muzelums (who, in his own cunning way, practices Christianity) out to make us kowtow to Isalum. Don’t it? Surely!

Yesterday, when I wrote a follow-up on the piece, I wrote the following:

Now we all know why the photo is such a hit to the right-wing nutcakes out there.

“Gosh, Clarajay, there’s Obama wearing one of them Muzalem turbines! He must be a terrorist!”

I thought it to be a bit of a joke and a playful bit of dialogue.

Since that time, many of the hits to the What’s driving you crazy? blog here have come from the following search words:

“obama wearing a turbine”

Gentle reader, if you are one of those brought to these words by such a search, I offer below, as a public service, the definitions of “turbine” and “turban”.

Turbine:

A device in which a stream of water or gas turns a bladed wheel, converting the kinetic energy of the fluid flow into mechanical energy available from the turbine shaft. The earliest turbines were water wheels. …
www.science.org.au/nova/037/037glo.htm

The wind turbines pictured to the right spin and produce electicity as the wind drives the blades (propellors). These particular turbines are located in a wind farm just outside of Sterling City, Texas, in the western part of the Lone Star State. These turbines bring extra cash to landowners who often do not buy into climate change, but who are more than willing to take the money of those trying offset global warming. It’s all good. Everyone wins.

(Photo by Lee Dunkelberg)

Turban:

The turban (from the Persian , dulband …) is a headdress consisting of a long scarf-like single piece of cloth wound round the head or an inner hat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turban

The Afghanistan tribal leaders pictured to the right are wearing turbans on their heads. The U.S. Army officer, Col. R. Stephen Williams, the commander of the 207th Infantry Brigade, is not. I believe he is wearing what is referred to, I believe, as a BDU (battle dress uniform) cap. By the way, he has just handed over the keys to to the 64th tractor distributed as part of Task Force Grizzly’s farm implement donation project to support farmers in the local area. (U.S. Army photo by Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman)

Have a nice day.

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