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It's one thing to deny those seats to the women because of their hijabs.

It's quite another to tell them that's why you're doing it.

Dumb-asses.

Sven wrote:

Detroit Free Press wrote:

One of two Muslim women who were denied visible seats behind Barack Obama’s stage at Joe Louis Arena on Monday because they wore head scarves said they deserve a personal apology from Obama and close-up seats at a future campaign rally.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti … &imw=Y

Oops. My bad! I thought I was just helping!

Picking on politicians is like shooting fish in a barrel.

Done by volunteers to the campaign, not Obama.

All of these events are tightly configured for TV.  My buddy who volunteers for McCain and my dad who is a volunteer for Obama have numerous stories of how volunteers "paint the palette" behind the candidates.  How else would you end up with the right mix of young and old, black, white, etc behind these guys?  But its not something the men control.

Last edited by iDissent (06-19-2008 05:13 PM)

dgm wrote:

And we all know campaign volunteers are never given instructions by the person campaigning.

See my edit above.

2.DOH wrote:

iDissent wrote:

All of these events are tightly configured for TV.  My buddy who volunteers for McCain and my dad who is a volunteer for Obama have numerous stories of how volunteers "paint the palette" behind the candidates.  How else would you end up with the right mix of young and old, black, white, etc behind these guys?  But its not something the men control.

Then they did a -terrible- job at his fathers day speech.

Where were the all the white people?

That was not a political event. That was a church on the south side of Chicago.  But I see what you did there...

On topic,

This event unfortunately had overly zealous volunteers intent on shielding the man from the republicans' Muslim smear.  But as noted elsewhere there are numerous pictures from events with headscarf wearing women in full view, frame, and presence of the candidate.

dgm wrote:

iDissent wrote:

shielding the man from the republicans' Muslim smear.

Why is it a smear to be called Muslim?

When its a lie designed to scare southern white voters or Jewish voters from voting for the guy.

iDissent wrote:

This event unfortunately had overly zealous volunteers intent on shielding the man from the republicans' Muslim smear.

Interesting.  It wasn't only republicans as far as I know.

But hey - if the whole "mean old repubs are victimizin' us" tactic didn't work in the last two - perhaps third time's a charm.