Did Obama campaign bar two Muslim women from photo?
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11168.html
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event
Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit on Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
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http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
talk about a crock-of-shit.....
ive been having a really wonderful day, but this simply nails down the fact that American-politics have become the lowest form of "culture" on earth. beyond disgraceful, this is a wretched turn of events.
to dust i guess,
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below,..
You are exactly right.
Surely people have enough common sense to realize it's a multi cultural world. umn...scratch that... that's giving too much credit to a lot of people.
In any event, I will not be surprised if/when the same US foreign policy continues on after Bush.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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Please tell me that was sarcastic. These people are volunteers who thought they were doing Obama a service, when in fact they proved why they just volunteers and not paid staffers.
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yeah because "volunteers" show-up and figure the best course of assistance is to impliment racist seating policies upon their own volition....
to dust i guess,
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below,..
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to dust i guess,
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below,..
:(
http://www.myspace.com/illuminatta
Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
I can't think of one campaign I have ever been on where a volunteer thinks they are campaign strategist and makes a boneheaded move like this. It happens all the time. This situation reeks of that being the case.
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you need a hobby, besides childish attacks on obama that is
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Rhinocerous Surprise '08!!!
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I'm kinda in the middle on this one... I would think something as politically important as who is in the background in camera range would be something too important to leave up to random volunteers, but who knows, they could have been doing the initial screening until the campaign officials got everyone situated.
But as mentioned before, it was a no win situation in this political climate... either discriminate against people based on their appearance, or become fodder for e-mails forwards and talk radio for being a jihad loving muslim.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Agreed. No matter what happened, he'd catch flack for this.
The way I see it, Obama's already dealing with the "He's a Muslim" e-mail and talk radio stuffs. This would just be more on that fire. But now he's got a whole new blaze a-burning.
How about keeping your integrity and not denying these women their seats based on their race OVER the risk of being made to look like 'jihad loving muslim' because the only people that buy into that kind of crap already have their minds made up and think that way anyway.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
Point.
yeah, i am sure obama made that decision personally :rolleyes:
the dumb shit is hitting a new historic high
Exactly. Honestly, to risk sounding like a roland style conspiracy theorist, i wouldn't be surprised if they weren't really muslims but thespian plants. Either way his detractors would have a line of attack. Unlikely, but possible. To be truthful, i wouldn't want to be a volunteer making that call. i agree with those that say sit them based on freedom's principle. For someone like Obama, however, given the history of attacks against him, this is a sticky situation and tough call. Rock and a hard place.
Because that's exactly what I said...
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde
I totally agree with you on what should have been done, and it's a shame that those types of thoughts (by whoever made that decision) even exists.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
That comparison doesn't really work - that's not based on race. I wouldn't expect them to let KKK hoods into the picture, or anything else that could be deemed offensive, or harmful to his campaign. But Muslim headscarves are not harmful to his campaign.