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Politico’s Ben Smith has posted a HIT PIECE on Barack Obama today, calling him a FRAUD, who is CONSCIOUS of IMAGE. Two Muslim women, apparently, were supposed to stand behind Obama’s podium at his big Al Gore Rally in Detroit on Monday. They each were wearing “Muslim headscarves,” however, and since Barack Obama must not ever be near any known Muslims, his campaign volunteers wouldn’t allow the two gals behind the podium after all. So now we’ve got one of those Old Politics/New Politics/Hypocrisy things on our hands.
The two Muslims faced hate discrimination in separate incidents. The volunteer in the first incident at least pretended to be tactful, by telling the Muslim gal that they weren’t allowing anyone with scarves or hats or “anything on their heads” in the special VIP section. Muslim image problem, solved! Until, of course, the volunteer immediately blew her cover by shouting at the Muslim gal, “It has nothing to do with your religion!” The Obama campaign should definitely fast-track this volunteer for a P.R. leadership role.
But it’s the discriminating volunteer in the second incident who may be an actual adult retard:
That incident began when the volunteer asked Aref’s friend Ali Koussan and two others, Aref’s brother Sharif and another young lawyer, Brandon Edward Miller, whether they would like to sit behind the stage. The three young men said they would but mentioned they were with friends.
The men said the volunteer, a 20-something African-American woman in a green shirt, asked if their friends looked and were dressed like the young men, who were all light-skinned and wearing suits.
Miller said yes but mentioned that one of their friends was wearing a headscarf with her suit.
The volunteer “explained to me that because of the political climate and what’s going on in the world and what’s going on with Muslim Americans, it’s not good for [Aref] to be seen on TV or associated with Obama,” said Koussan, a law student at Wayne State University.
Both Koussan and Miller said they specifically recalled the volunteer citing the “political climate” in telling them they couldn’t sit behind Obama.
Well maybe everyone is lying, as usual. If not, however, then the Baseball Cap Excuse is a legendary act of political agility compared to the “YOU MUSLIMS ARE RUINING HIM FOR SHIT’S SAKE” one.
The Obama campaign has denounced those two volunteers, both of whom are now en route to New York City, where briefcases of $100,000 in unmarked bills drawn from Bill Clinton’s presidential library fund await them at a Penn Station locker.
Muslims barred from picture at Obama event [Politico]
Ohs Noes!
Aref did blow with Barry and gave him a blo-job to boot?
Ohs Noes!
Barack, please throw us black people completely under the bus, already…
Yeah, I can understand the impulse behind the volunteers thinking, I don’t knowwwwww if this is a good thing. But seriously, folks, the wingnuts are going to keep screaming MUSLIM MUSLIM MUSLIM at Obama regardless of who’s seen near him. A quick thinking campaign volunteer would have some spare Abercrombie t-shirts on hand for the women to put on. Problem solved.
At his next rally, people in KKK hoods and bed sheets might be more palatable to the viewing audience.
WhatTheHeck: He’s doing a gig in West Virginia?
Nothing like dumbfuck law students who think that 3 hours of torts gives them some sort of magical political powers; it’s almost like taking policy advice from blog comments.
Good grief. Part of me wants Barry to stand up and say “F*ck you, Muslims are NOT the enemy”, but I know that would be political suicide.
Of course, the krazy kultists will take this as evidence that he really did spend years in a madrasah learning how to blow up “hard working” Americans. Or that he’s a diabolical, smooth talking politician who will DO ANYTHING to get elected (like the antichrist!).
*sigh*
Iggy Plop: I canvassed for Obama in rural Pennsylvania with a Sikh girl. She wore a headscarf, which, to a lot of bitters, makes her an Islamofascist terrrist. There were a couple times where some of us were like, “Hmm, this might turn some people off”, but we didn’t say anything about it because we’re not complete and utter bigoted douchebags.
CONSCIOUS of IMAGE? My God! No! Say it ain’t so Joe! I bet he says ‘excuse me” when he sneezes, combs his hair, and I bet that rat fucking terror luvin’ self-absorbed bastid even shaves! H o w d a r e h e!
Real, full-blooded Americans give speeches in front of green screens. Barack needs to denounce and reject crowds altogether, because who knows what might be in a crowd?
In other news, Drudge just totally outed himself as Obama’s fanboy, because here’s how the story was played out on the site. A very big and shiny Whore Hope Diamond for Drudge.
norbizness: it’s almost like taking policy advice from blog comments Just a little note from the afterlife to say I died laughing.
I hope the girls got a couple of free T-shirts,Dave Matthews tickets and a personal apology on their voice mail. Beyond that, incident over. In France, they wouldn’t even let them into school.
Cicada: Hopey needs to tell the planet that we are all brothers and that Muslims are not the enemy — however — in the same paragraph The Hopsster needs to state that all Takfiris must be hunted down and killed. When he gets to the killin’ part he must present an Eastwood glint in his eye and some spittle should come out of his mouth. That’d put this terror-luver bullshit to rest once and for all. OK. I’m done. Let my beating commence.
jagorev: I think you just hit on something. Maybe Barry can speak in front of a green screen from now on and his staff can insert the appropriate background audience.
Muslims = bad, Abercrombie = good.
Th-that’s n-not ch-change we can b-belie … oh, wait … headscarves? Carry on, Barry.
If they were seated prominently behind him, FOX would’ve had that shit on a loop for hours. “Are those his daughters?” Shit like that.
this job must suck
ronaldpagan: not entirely sure i get your point. i’m gonna guess that the vast majority of Obama volunteers are more like you and your cohorts than the ones that made the thoughtless misstep and got canned, but as the pressure ratchets up, maybe even kind and reasonable people may make a similar mistake?
Gawd, Democrats are such pussies. Big fucking deal. The Muslim kids didn’t get to be in the background. Boo fucking hoo. Sorry, but there aren’t going to be any Muslims connected to the campaign for a while.
You gotta do this kind of craven, soul-killing shit if you want to win.
RuperttheBear: No they would be part of his terrorist cell on the Fox loop. At the same time, what were the campaign workers so scared of? That some fuckwads watching Fox run that tape, frothing about what a big terrorist Barry is, might not vote for Barry because of it? Have no fear. Said fuckwads long ago found a reason not to vote for Barry.
what the hell are peeps complaining about, they just needed to save room to whore out all of barry’s women supporters, show the world that women are coming around to him and in fact not all vaginas hate him. i’m sure there’ll be at least one supporter in muslim garb standing right behind barry at his next big speech to make up for it, wouldn’t want folks to think he doesn’t have muslim support.
The Abercrombie boys got their 15 minutes, and Fox News would have came in their pants for a few shots of the burka gals. Campaigns choose who stands behind the podium, it’s staged, and I’m fine with that. People act like it’s some diabolical scheme. Please, at least he isn’t taking lobbyist money, and we know he doesn’t hate Muslims. Once Barry is elected we can have a big old beach blanket burka party. Until then, a few careful moves are fine by me.
…they should have let them all sit behind him during his speech. Partly because it would be hilarious watching Wingnuts froth at the mouth about how there were Muslims at his rally. Also it would highlight their desperation and continue the steady flow of Republicans changing their party affiliation to Independent or Democrat out of shear embarrassment!!!
Iggy Plop: I’m not sure I had a point. I think you’d be an asshole to do something like that, but it makes sense what kind of pressure they were under. It’s definitely more that the country’s racist and these douchebags are just the messengers.
RuperttheBear: Yeah exactly! How come Obama gets called out for having volunteers who won’t seat Muslims behind him, and Fox News does this kind of shit so often it’s not even worth it to call them out anymore?
Next time lets get Genie in a 60s go-go belly dancer outfit. She’s the kind of Muslim that even wonderbread eatin’ bitters can love.
If your critics are going to assail you regardless of what you do, you may as well stick to your principles and damn the consequences. You’ll feel a lot less sordid and knavish afterwards.
Allah’s gonna have a MAJOR settle to score with his prophet, Barry.
ronaldpagan: Gotcha. I’m there with you. It’s galling that the assholes seem to be calling the shots even for people that are supposedly on the right team.
SayItWithWookies: Well-put.
shortsshortsshorts: Yes, I want to settle and score with Barry too. Preferably with cocaine in the back of a limousine.
Ben Smith is a by-product of Reagan Youth.
Hillary used to stack her background with men and straight looking women instead of lesbians with bobs; Walnuts still places youngs behind him to create the illusion that anyone under the age of 160 supports him. So why shouldn’t Barry stuff his VIP section with nice non-towelhead Americans? That way he looks less like a Muslim terrorist on the teevee.
Folks, at this point it all about winning, not doing the the touchy-feely-librul-rainbows-and-unicorns-right-thing.
I know my fellow American voters well, and to put it in the most offensive way possible, I say “Barry, keep the ragheads off the stage until at least after the election.” General election of 2012, I mean.
KevoTron: When you do, be sure to give us all the blow-by-blo.
Yeah its kinda a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. I mean there is sticking to principels and losing to Juan McCain or hiding the muslims and keeping Juan McCain out of the White House. Despite my principles I would support the latter rather than the former.
F’it. I say put up anybody they want to behind the podium. Park them right next to the guy wearing the trucker hat. Oh wait, that would be me. White, working class gun owners aren’t supposed to vote for Hopey. My bad.
BFD. Hopey’s a smart boy and realized he would jeopardize any chance of future Dunkin’ Donuts commercial opportunities if’n he were to pose with teh enemeez. He saw what happened to Rachel Ray and knows what side his Hamas waffles are syruped on.
I also noted that when he addressed AIPAC not long back, he refused to be surrounded by anyone wearing a swastika.
Sure he’s a fuckin’ elitist, but he’s a smart elitist. That’s why he’s, you know, winning the whole damn shootin’ match.
Canuckledragger: Word.
I’m sick of the right hijacking the language and the left not calling bs. First it was liberal, now even Hilz used it in a class-conscious way to divide. For Krishnu sake elite means the best. Who would not want to have the best person in the job? The right turned the word on the very people who had accused THEM of being separated from he mainstream. It’s just another thing they hide behind, like the flag and flagpins. It’s the right who separate people according to class.
Oh no! Adults who, for some ridiculous “Lord Of The Rings=Real Life” reason, wanna wear scarves on their heads in the middle of fucking June don’t get to be in the photo op! It’s almost as bad as when I don’t get to wear punk rock T-shirts to my job at a corporate office. It’s politics, fuckos; comb your hair, bury you’re tchotchkes in the lawn, and don’t wear anything you wouldn’t wear in a bank ad. Hope is for people who know when to button up and play it cool when a bitter misporonounces your name.
RaptorAvatar: I live in NYC. Bank ads here often feature people in Muslim gear (as well as Sikhs and other assorted Asians and Africans). Also, no white people.
I heard that McCrack has met a couple a-rabs in his 89 years alive and his hero Curious George has actually held hands, at length, with some of them.
Since there is no rejecting and denoucing going on (I think groveling pleading about oil prices was more like it), I can only draw one conclusion. They have stiffies for a-rabs. And you know how that culture works. The one who gives isn’t gay, only the one who receives.
jagorev: May god, allah and vishnu bless NYC. I like the sound of that bank. The questioning I get whenever I withdraw over 10k is getting insane. What, like I’m going to buy a dirty bomb with 10k?
RacerMex: This is definitely true for some things. Like why he can’t give a speech where he goes, “I’m not a Muslim, but you bigoted fuckwads shouldn’t give a shit if I was one.” On my aforementioned Pennsylvania trip (that I love to talk about because some of the locals were SOOO bitter) we had to hand out all these neo-Christian flyers of Barry next to a giant cross that went, “Faith. Hope. Commitment.” Or something. They made me physically ill but I understood the rationale. But am I naive to think that letting a couple Muzzies sit behind Bear-Bear now and again would completely doom his campaign? It’s moot anyway, because Obama didn’t kick the Muslims out…it was some over-zealous campaign staffers acting on an understandable rationale, and I don’t hold them against him.
jagorev: Bad hypothetical. Maybe it’s just my memories of arguing about clothes before appearing in a bank ad when I was five years old. Apparently, my snot-stained dinosaur sweatsuit did not jibe with their image.
ronaldpagan: WOULDN’T completely doom his campaign. I hate it when my typos express the opposite of what I’m trying to say.
Roughly 5 miles from Joe Louis Arena, where Barry rallied, sits the once
all-white city of Dearborn.
From the Wikipedia:
“Dearborn’s population includes 30,000 Arab Americans. It has the
largest proportion of Arab Americans for a city of its size (about 100,000).”
You’d think there’d have been some contextual consideration taken by Barry’s
young true believers. WTF?
I’m sorry, but this is picky shit. We all know why the staffer didn’t let them sit behind Barry.
We live in the TV age. (Or was that long ago? I forget. My Japanese sex android’s headscarf doesn’t bother me one bit.)
Would a tractor supply “gimme hat” be OK? But a bill-back hip-hop inspired lid, not?
So, let me get this straight…
If Hillary’s people had done this, it would be let’s flay the bitch alive (regardless of whether or not she knew anything about it), but if Obama’s people do it, its well… he’s trying to win an election, dammit, so that makes it OK.
Nuh, I’m not bitter, I’m juz sayin…
Captain Swing: You are absolutely right. But besides that, in 200 and 2004 it was all about winning the Muslim vote and now apparently it’s trying to alienate as many as possible (calling the word «Muslim» a smear doesn’t help).
Captain Swing: Yeah, right, sure, whatever. Because everything is still all about Hillary, I’m sure she would have been sentenced to face a Bosnian firing squad for her hypothetical insensitivity. Because, let’s face it, the inert-tubes are just teeming with rumours about how Hillary’s really a secret Mooselimb, and all. Why hasn’t she released her birth certificate, and her madrassa records, and all the photos of her being sworn into the Senate on a Koran? What is she hiding?
Whereas, all Hopey has done is apologize for the lack of tact displayed by his volunteer staffers, and released photos of the numerous events where he has been photographed in the company of them damnable Mooselimbs. It would be helpful if Hopey would more often denounce the attempts to depict him as Mooselimb as an offense to that faith, and not just to him, but he has done so in the past, and will likely be required to do the same in the future.
Yeah, that’s a really apt comparison, Cap’n. I’m not bitter, either, but you’re not helping.
Captain Swing: Not at all. That’s the problem with HRC’s cat-crazy supporters. You think everyone else is fur-addled, bitter-taste-in-mouth distracted. I think any Democrat Party Member needs to anticipate the bullshit from FOXS, which leads to poor or questionable decisions. No one with a brain would flay HRC for a decision like this.
They’d flay her because no one should ever wear yellow pantsuits.
I was sitting behind him and I was wearing a cock ring and ball stretcher. Should I have told someone?
Canuckledragger: Me loves you.
Ex-Obama Muslims for John McCain: We will hold our Nose and vote for the Enemy of Islam.