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Obama campaign volunteers barred two Muslim women from the stage because they were wearing head scarves at a Detroit rally. Later, Obama campaign managers apologized for the incident.
Two Muslim women, who were attending an Obama rally on Monday, were barred from the stage in an attempt to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.
Hebba Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer who was an Obama supporter said she was disappointed with the incident. One of the volunteers had even asked her to remove the head scarf if she wanted to sit behind Obama.
Obama is sitting there and teaching new politics and change and saying he is going to gather people of every faith and race and ethnicity, and going to bring us all together as one, and at the same time, you have discrimination tactics against Muslims taking place at the same event.
She said she would continue to support Obama and vote for him in the general elections.
Obama campaign apologised for the incident on Wednesday. Campaign spokesman Bill Burton said.
This, of course, is not the policy of the campaign. It is offensive and counter to Obama’s commitment to bring Americans together and simply not the kind of campaign we run. We sincerely apologize for the behavior of these volunteers.
Political opponents have been trying to use Obama's Muslim connection as a weapon to target him . A recent survey published had found that 14 per cent of Republicans, 10 per cent of Democrats and 8 per cent of independents mistakenly took Obama as a Muslim.
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14 percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents mistakenly took Obama as a Muslim.
Which goes to show that we independants are the least idiotic of the bunch. Muwahahahahahaha -
I see a dim-witted authority freak or provocateur. Sleazier and sleazier.
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I will leave the same comment here, since it is about the same issue:
it bears mentioning as well that this is not the first time that the Obama campaign has done something like this to "control the image".
Back in Pittsburgh, in April, there was a rally where Michelle Obama was speaking and it was reported by The Tartan that Michelle Obama’s event coordinators hand picked the crowd to sit behind her.
The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”
“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”
This seems to be a pattern, despite the campaigns denials, huh? -
@ Susan Duclos
I will leave the same comment here, since it is about the same issue:
it bears mentioning as well that this is not the first time that the Obama campaign has done something like this to "control the image".
Back in Pittsburgh, in April, there was a rally where Michelle Obama was speaking and it was reported by The Tartan that Michelle Obama’s event coordinators hand picked the crowd to sit behind her.
The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”
“I didn’t know they would say, ‘We need a white person here,’ ” said attendee and senior psychology major Shayna Watson, who sat in the crowd behind Mrs. Obama. “I understood they would want a show of diversity, but to pick up people and to reseat them, I didn’t know it would be so outright.”
This seems to be a pattern, despite the campaigns denials, huh?
In my opinion, carrying such gossip is not only smear but, in this case, smear by association. Can anything be done to lift U.S. politics out of the gutter? Expose it, where possible, I guess. -
@ skeptikool
This seems to be a pattern, despite the campaigns denials, huh?
In my opinion, carrying such gossip is not only smear but, in this case, smear by association. Can anything be done to lift U.S. politics out of the gutter? Expose it, where possible, I guess.
Funny how it is called a smear when people show the pattern of behavior. The truth is not a smear, lies are.
Ignoring the truth because you do not like it, only shows you don't want to see the truth or anyone else to be shown the pattern of behavior shown by aides and volunteers of Barack Obama.
As long as they continue to do idiotic things, expect those acts of idiocy to be shown, often and loudly. -
Although it's shameful, it's understandable - particularly when one of the strongest rumours against Obama's campaign is the idiotic assumption he's a Muslim. Having Muslims in the background will only fuel the media speculation even more, and just be a general headache.
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My daughter lives in Quincy, Illinois - where all of the flooding is occurring....thankfully she is on "high ground" - anyway, last weekend she and her husband went to the flood area to sandbag. Obama showed up for a momentary photo op, filled a couple sandbags and hit the road. Word in the street was that he had also bussed in an entire group of black "residents" to mill about the site while he was being interviewed. The natural population in Quincy is pretty low in African Americans - guess Obama thought a bunch of black people working the sandbags would look good? Who knows??!!
My daughter said there were NO black people on site once Obama was gone and that is was only whites and Amish working the area.
Talk about Wag The Dog politics - who knows who any of these candidates REALLY are or what the REALLY stand for or believe in - it is all just smoke and mirrors.
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According to all the reports that I have read the women were NOT removed from the stage. They were never allowed to go up on the stage.
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