Originally Posted by Towelie

Although I'm sure you're salivating at the chance to slam Obama for any trivial reason, this isn't his fault. This was a campaign staffer who made a bad decision. Obama took responsibility for the staffer's behavior and apologized to the women personally. What more do you want?

Originally Posted by naturemomma

First grannie, and now this.



I was coming to support him, and I felt like I was discriminated against by the very person who was supposed to be bringing this change, who I could really relate to,” said Hebba Aref, a 25-year-old lawyer who lives in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. “The message that I thought was delivered to us was that they do not want him associated with Muslims or Muslim supporters.”

In Detroit on Monday, the two different Obama volunteers — in separate incidents — made it clear that headscarves wouldn’t be in the picture. The volunteers gave different explanations for excluding the hijabs, one bluntly political and the other less clear.

In Aref’s case, there was no ambiguity.

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.

“I was like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. Are you serious?’” Koussan recalled.

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Originally Posted by Towelie

Although I'm sure you're salivating at the chance to slam Obama for any trivial reason, this isn't his fault. This was a campaign staffer who made a bad decision. Obama took responsibility for the staffer's behavior and apologized to the women personally. What more do you want?

Originally Posted by kgpoolerev

Any libs upset that during the primaries to today that Obama manipulates the people he is seen with to exclude blacks and Muslims?

Originally Posted by Obama's Empty Suit

He threw his own grandmother under the bus, why would anyone be surprised about him tossing 2 fellow jihadists?

Originally Posted by RASTAMAN

I can't wait until Obama throws ignorant ass conservatives under the bus. Now that will be caused for great celebration...

Conservatives have given muslims a bad name during this election season. The strategy is to win in November. Conservatives would just love to see Obama embracing muslims soooo they can spread fear and paranoia.

This is all politics. Sure we should not behave this way as a society. Its all about winning! Obama can't snub muslims nor can he allow racist Republicans paint him into a corner.

Originally Posted by kgpoolerev

Ahh, the conservatives control Obama. He does nothing for himself. Is it the conservatives who made Obama put mostly whites behind him in Nc to make the crowd look white?

Again you excuse Obama and blame others for the flaws of Obama. Obama is his own man, he makes his own choices yet he refuses to own up to his choices.