Obama Throws Muslims Under the Bus Too
By PaganPower on June 18, 2008 at 2:20 PM in Barack Obama, Muslim
It’s Headscarves-gate.
Barack Obama is going to great lengths to distance himself from his father and step-father’s Muslim backgrounds. He even joined a radical so-called Christian church and was a member for 20 years just to dispel the notion. But now that he is a big shot Presidential candidate he has taken this distancing stuff to the extreme. His message to supporters: No head scarves allowed in any photographs with The One. If you are Muslim and you support Barack Obama, you are going to have to look like regular folk or you won’t be included.
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.
The Obama of course immediately apologized when the women went public with their displeasure (and not before). But we are used to this. Obama does one thing. People react badly to what he does. Obama suddenly appears to change course and offers an apology. Well, his WORMs do.
“This is of course 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,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “We sincerely apologize for the behavior of these volunteers.”
It’s always the same response. Here is the short version:
We are so deeply sorry that you were offended by what you perceived to be a sleight to your character. Please know that what happened to you is completely contrary to Senator Obama’s message of hope and unity. Therefore he couldn’t possibly have meant to harm you in any way. Don’t start acting like those bitter people now. Senator Obama really loves you like he does all of his children. Really, he does.
The two women that this happened to were flabbergasted.
“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.”
I can really feel for this lady. yep, lots of folks are bamboozled into believing Obama’s message only to find out that the reality of it is that he discriminates against a lot of folks. It happens all the time. Not to seem non empathetic but get used to it. They don’t call him Snobama for nothing.
In fact, this wasn’t an accident at all. It was a carefully calculated political ploy to present a non-threatening message to the voters. A shame that the actual message it sent was one of hate and exclusion.
That incident began when the volunteer asked Aref’s friend Ali Koussan and two other friends, 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 twenty-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, who is 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.
As SusanUnPC explained in her excellent piece, “Brit Hume Raises the Question of Barack Obama’s Muslim Background,” Obama is going to great lengths to distance himself from his own heritage. Why else would the campaign be hiding his real birth certificate? And just why would his supposed Anti-Smear Website go so far as to blatantly lie about his real Muslim background? How else do you explain this?
This incident might have everything to do with the “political climate” and all. But from where I sit, the climate is going to start heating up around Senator Obama. Very Soon!
*munching my popcorn*
Obama minders please be aware,
Several of us will be looking to appear behind Obama at open events. We are all across the country. We look respectable. But once the cameras are on we will don multi-colored afro wigs and hold up cloth signs saying “Obama 3:16″ Then we will chant “For God so loved the world that he gave us Obama, and whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” To make the message get through we will hand out cards with this message.
(We might have to think that over…the ObamaMessiahBots might see nothing wrong with that, but it would confirm the righteousness of their adulation.)
lol* Personally, after seeing the MI tape of his rallies, no way in heck would I ever attend his event. Way too scary!
Also funny is the Obama counter-propaganda planted in this story,
ONly an Obamabot would believe McCain wouldn’t want a Hispanic face behind him. Both campaigns are about empty images. The Obama counter-prop guy didn’t have the nerve to lie and say he was a Republican, thus averting questions that the snub he received was due to something else than his skin.
And why would it be scary to you AnninCa?? He can’t win for losing, right? You know darn well that had someone wearing a headscarf appeared behind Obama at a political rally, all hell would break - and the whole muslim thing would start up again. He is not a Muslim but with people like you, he will always be associated with whatever is ‘evil’ to the racist narrow-minded people of this country. don’t deny it…he scares you.
That is frickin hilarious. RFLMAO! What a great idea.
PaganPower,
The new CNN article has follow-up info
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/18/obama.event.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest
A lawyer!
Go Hebba Go!
Hebba, you’re a lawyer. Sue! Sue! Surely this counts as a legitimate discrimination case, and with a public facility to boot!
Hebba, you need to visit the following address,
Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse
231 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, Michigan 48226
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080618/NEWS07/80618043
And even more from the local Detroit paper,
Michigan law school. She must be very smart!
That sounds like she’s setting up a law suit. Sue! Sue!
Smart family, with money too. Anesthesiologist? They know how to shut people up. Sue!
YOu know, I kept hoping that would happen during his massive turn-out of “folks” as he likes to call them. that would be s-o-o-o great.
Obama’s campaign apologizes and says:
“This is of course 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…”
Oh bull!
If that’s so, why have we never seen a scarf-covered head in the crowd behind Obama during this entire campaign? Why have we never seen a photo of Obama posing with a scarf-wearing muslim on the campaign trail? Why have we never seen a photo of a scarf-covered muslim even in a crowd around Obama?
Are we to think that no female muslims support Obama? NONE??? Really???
Isn’t this muslim sexism? Muslim men can pass but muslim women can’t - in the all-inclusive, unity campaign of Barack Obama.
What a hypocritical jerk!
Obama is a racist.
We need to go and carry headscarves! For sure they’ll pick us middle-aged white problem ladies for the solidarity look!
Once the cameras are rolling, don the headscarves!!!
Also, send these articles to Donna Brazile at
donna@brazileassociates.com
And ask her to STOP THE HATE!!!!!!!!
Obamai: They were not the Muslim women I once knew, lol.
It’s beyond me what keeps the kool-aid drinkers at the tap, as the kool-aid get more rancid in each passing day.
Obama is confusing Arabs all over the world. With this in Detroit, and firstly, with his comments that Jerusalem will be undivided forever. Arabs thought, “WTF? Even the Jews don’t say that!!”
lol* I know. I thought that was one of his funnier gaffes. He’s very unsophisticated, really.
It just keeps getting better and better
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1738412720080617?sp=true
Adviser denies Obama showed naivete on Jerusalem
Oh, my, that doesn’t sound good!
Uh, whatever.
The comment was so pro-Israeli even the Israelis denounced it!
Pagan Power, I think this story might deserve it’s own posting.
ya’ll crack me up!
let’s plant Trolls behind him, & when the cameras roll, they quickly don Burkas.
Being a skin cancer sufferer and desert offroader in my (copious, thanks to the Bush Recession) spare time, I own AND WEAR a Kaffiyeh.
It doesn’t look ANYTHING like a Rachel Ray scarf, thank you very much. It looks much more like required dress at a r**head hoe-down and RPG Swapmeet.
(I bought the MF’er, and 5 more like it, in The Emirates, and I’m KEEPIING them!)
And, since I have a real, “Air’s FREE!” schnozzola and an Iraqi Army/LAPD moustache, I have learned not to wear it in town. I was pulled over for a Meet and Greet by some donut munchers in Calaveras County, who (1) didn’t think camel jockeys came in my size, and (2) had a lot of trouble understanding my VERY thick “Southern accent,” which overcame me about the time they told me to do the “South Central LA Macarena,” against the hood of my Jeep.
Anyway, my point is, a Burka is pretty big to carry, even folded up, but a Kaffiyeh will go in the pocket of Levis and can be donned and tied in 4 seconds.
Just a suggestion, to those who’d brave a bad case of cooties to attend on Obama.
Get seated, put on your CATERPILLAR ball cap, then switch to your Camel Jockey Boralino when the cameras swing your way!
ROTFL! Me, too, Ann.
I don’t feel a bit sorry for those kids who were so “shocked” and thought he was “the one” candidate who would “stand up” for them. Do your HOMEWORK, bratz.
Thanks to you, we’re all stuck with this schmuck. So, it’s THE MORONS I’m laughing at. Your tears and hand-wringing will provide the same entertainment we got from the Bush morons when they discovered their first “tax rebate” wasn’t anywhere near the $600 they were salivating over…because their ignorant asses didn’t qualify for even that piddling amount.
We’re gonna need a bigger bus.
I hope there is some really bad news in store for bobo because CNN is reporting Qunnipiac poll has him ahead in Penn Ohio and Florida…this is most distressing .
He did not win any of those states Hillary did..I hope there is something to stop this horror from becoming POTUS
You mean the “horror” who advocated many of the exact same positions your Queen, Hillary, proposed? What’s funny is you accuse OTHER people of being in a cult of personality.
You mean the same “horror” that you called a bitch over and over again. What’s funny is you accuse other people of being in a cult of personality.
Did you come into this election in the middle? MSNBC was taking a poll for months and listed every candidate and every position they took and Obama wasn’t even close to Senator Clinton’s positions. (Actually, I don’t think he had done enough work in the Senate to know what he thought.)
As she laid out her proposals, Obama snatched them up. I know because I read every candidate’s health care proposals, every candidate’s Iraq war proposals, every candidate’s economic and energy proposals before the field dwindled to three and the word “ditto” started describing Obama’s “plans” late in the primaries. I suppose it is better to imitate the best but why settle for the copy if you can get the real thing cheaper?
Because Obama supporters are SEXIST. They want a man to do it. Sad, but true.
The rest of us can read too…and he did not take her proposals to call his own. you people spout so many lies - prove that he took her policies and called them his own…i dare you to prove it by citing word for word ALL their policies to show similarities/differences.
His new NAFTA stance should help out nicely in Ohio, don’t you think?
The general campaign is on, independent voters up for grabs, and Barack Obama is toning down his populist rhetoric - at least when it comes to free trade.
In an interview with Fortune to be featured in the magazine’s upcoming issue, the presumptive Democratic nominee suggests he doesn’t want to unilaterally blow up NAFTA after all.
“Sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified,” he conceded, after I reminded him that he had called NAFTA “devastating” and “a big mistake,” despite nonpartisan studies concluding that the trade zone has had a mild, positive effect on the U.S. economy.
Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified? “Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself,” he answered.
In the up-coming Fortune magazine. The above is from CNN.com
“Does that mean his rhetoric was overheated and amplified? “Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself,” he answered.”
Score one for Jeremiah Wright. With a tinge of scorn in his voice Wright said the same about Obama.
Touche!
How have people here not jumped on that story? Isn’t that exactly what Canada said he told them, that his speeches was just rhetoric and that he’d back off as soon as it was politically conviennt? Didn’t he fight for weeks to deny that story? And here he’s admitting to it? This should be front page news! We’ve got to get this story to the top of digg, see what excuses the Obamabots have for that one.
Geez, this is exactly what the CTV reporters said. Obama is now admitting that he was just a politician and that NAFTA was “just rhetoric.” This is pathetic.
The polls are still all over the place. ABC announced totally different polls yesterday. There’s an 11 point difference in FL.
Someone is lying. Methinks I can figure out whom and why.
Polls can not be trusted. They are manipulated and are just one more “thrill” for the media propoganda war.
>>> Polls can not be trusted.
I’m pretty leery of Lithuanians and Finns, too!
Hillary was granted an extravagant lead when she first entered the primary. They were just setting her up for the slaughter.
If Obama is throwing Muslims under the bus, can we finally dispel the rumor Obama is a closet Muslim?
No, silly, this is the reason why he made sure his workers “crop those people out of his picture.” He’s trying to make us believe muslims don’t support him and are not part of his favored minions. We know better.
We certainly have further proof as to what a sadly conflicted man he is. Bush only had to prove something to Dad. Obama has so many people — most of them dead — to prove something to that we simply can’t afford to watch his on the job therapy/governance/jihad.
Yes, it’s just another episode being played out in the psychodrama that is Barack Obama. And he’s dragging the whole country along with him. Just what we need when we’re fighting in two wars and our economy is tanking.
kookoo
Yes. Louis Farrakhan calls Obama the “savior.”
No. But we now have evididence that he is prejudiced against muslims.
He’s doing what ever he can to make people think what he thinks he should think (and do) so that he can get elected; everything means something (and nothing); remember, with Obama: down is up, up is down; and Wright is right!
You mean racist.
No we can’t, only that he is not much better at “throwing people under the bus” than he is at bowling.
He must have it in for taxis and school buses.
Ask his brother http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm
Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt — contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.
As the Jerusalem Post reports, “Barack Obama’s half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.”
The Obama brothers’ father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik — live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985 in the US.
“He was best man at my wedding and I was best man at his,” said Malik in a 2004 interview with an AP reporter. Their paternal grandfather, Onyango Hussein Obama, was one of the first Muslim converts in Nyangoma-Kogelo, Malik said
Considering that he threw his typical white grandmother and his racist black uncle pastor under the bus, I doubt it very seriously.
Nobody gives a crap but him.
Me thinks not. Remember J. Edgar Hoover. Hated homosexuals during his day time job and dressed in flaming red dress at night!
Actually this proves he IS a Muslim.
Those hussies should stay draped AND out of sight, like the Taliban sez.
What’s the dress code for being photographed with Obama?
Well, according to Gavin Newsome, you can’t be, or support gays.
And you can’t be photographed with him ESPECIALLY if you’re a burka wearing, gay muslim.
THERE’s an Idea!
Get a seat behind His Most Deluxe Self, and, when the camera swings to you put on a Gavin Newsom mask!!!!
So Obama is SEXIST, RACIST, AGEIST and HOMOPHOBIC. What a fun combo! LOL
It changes day to day. Right this minute, you need to be a white woman wearing an upside down Hillary button that is positioned below your shiny new Obama button. In order for you to get into this “condition,” you need to drink the red liquid at the front door of the auditorium, handed to you by an aid who tells you “Drink this, it’s kool.” As soon as the smile appears on your face (the one that tells the world you’ve seen a happy vision), you will be escorted to the seating section right behind the Senator’s strutting area. By that time, it doesn’t matter what the hell you’re wearing; you’ll be in the middle of a kool-ade induced orgasm along with the rest of the crowd. Now keep smiling, the Senator is ready to have you in the background of his picture1
lol…this is to funny to let go, you need
to let a lot of people see this, i mean it
Obama is owning McCain in all the polls.
Now all of us secret-gay-muslim-drug addicted terrorists can come out of our madrassas!
Ha Ha! What you say? You should have listened to the sooth-sayers of No Quarter. They know the truth.
Now all of your bus are belong to us!
wow–this is delusion supreme.
I’ll bet you are aware of all internet traditions.
Trust me. This is his first campaign. He has no clue what’s in store. Will someone pass the pop corn? Please? Thank you!
Huckabee is warning the Republicans to not go too far on the demonizing him deal. I think he’s right. It will backfire.
The whole UNITY rally thing is just great though. The press is there. Everyone is ready for unity.
And then the Obama supporters show up. *haha
The press can’t turn off the cameras. Too late! Nobody can wipe the shocked look off of the faces!
And Obama probably doesn’t remember that he used to whip them into a frenzy by flicking her off his shoulder……*WooHoo*……and smiling as the crowd roared with approval!
Ah yes, you reap what you sow.
He sowed this PR nightmare all by himself.
Damned right! That weenie has NEVER been told to, “Step to the Back of the Bus,” and he’s facing a GOP financed by rich old Fascist bastards who’ve been WAITING to let their Racist Flags fly for a couple of decades now.
Of the hundred or so African Americans who I know by sight and name and see at least once every 10 days, all but six drank the Kool-Aid and became dim-witted Klockies on the spot.
The other six are Republicans, who think that ANYONE who would swallow this Obama horseshit is either deluded or retarded.
Obama is owning McCain
The racist poser. Hey! Didn’t your mommy tell you owning another human being is called slavery?
The only thing Obama is going to own is a Kool-aid distillery that’s filed chapter 7.
Now that the DNC and HuffPo are having a closer look at McCain military records, I bet they will find that everything isn’t as McCain claims. We will soon find out this “war hero” is nothing more than a sham. HuffPo has revealed that McCain received preferrential treatment the same way Bush did.
Do I care, I still won’t vote for Obama.
I’m sure you will. You trashed Hillary all year. Why should McCain be spared the leftie nastiness.
Obama will do anything to be elected.
One thing that’s nice, however. I’ll not have to read that trash. I put up with HuffPo to make sure there was a Hillary voice there for months.
Never again.
And why should you when you have this lovely, insightful, hate filled, rumor mongering site that you and all your spiteful loser friends can trash Obama. You can feel the democratic love over at HuffPo but here you just feel the love to hate.
If you all want to defeat the Great Obama then you need to channel all this hate into some work and get out there for what ever party you represent. It looks like the Hater Party. I know of four fund raisers and voter registration drives this weekend just in my town alone. I’m personally donating to BO, DNC ,DNConvention and MoveOn every week. I also gave your Priestess money to pay her bills. It won’t work if your only inspired by hate.
Yeppers….bout like the love we felt from that great Unity Rally. LOL*
“The Great Obama” (Barf)
Girl, find yourself someone to admire and love who will reciprocate your feelings.
Step away from the Cult-Aide.
San Francisco Chronical, August 2004. Let’s see if Kerry is any where near the man that McCain is.
‘The TV spots became a center of controversy Thursday when McCain, in an interview with the Associated Press, harshly criticized the ad.
“It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me,” McCain said, referring to attacks on his military record during the 2000 Republican primary race by supporters of Bush. At the time, Kerry and other senators who served in Vietnam came to McCain’s defense. Kerry and McCain also worked together in the 1990s on resolving the question of American soldiers missing in action in Vietnam, which led to normalized relations between the countries.
“I deplore this kind of politics,” McCain told the Associated Press. “I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat (Kerry) commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam. I think George Bush served honorably in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War.”
Have you told your Master that it won’t work if he only inspires hate? He really needs to hear your message because he seem inordinately proud to have Senator Clinton under his heel. And by the way, your message of “See what you made me do!” also falls on deaf ears but keep up your work for redemption with your contributions to Senator Clinton.
He doesn’t have Clinton under his heel.
You really need to step back, and apply some clear headed analysis, here.
Same with me regarding Huffpoo. But after the RFK spin that they all jumped on the bandwagon over, I just could not return. I put up with so many insults and hatred from those ‘folks’, but felt it was important to at least get another voice into their Obamamesiah echo chamber. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
What care I? McCain gets my vote, unless Hillary wants to do the Independent thing.
Right, he doesn’t lift his arms because he doesn’t want to, right? You people are thoroughly disgusting! McCain is no Kerry. If they push McCain, he’ll unleash those 527’s early. They are screwing with the wrong war hero.
Look, McCain is the affirmative action naval officer. He only got his rank through preferrential treatment.
And YOU complained because we weren’t all sobbing for Russart? You are the height of the new low ….
Methinks you need to learn what “affirmative action” is.
NEWS FLASH!
That’s how the Navy works!
If you think that hate, fear and loathing are going to work this time then you may be mistaken. That only works for the small minded and god knows that there are plenty of you here and there but good will be triumphant.
>>> good will be triumphant
So FEW instances in all of Western Civilization illustrate Good prevailing over Evil…
True, but there are many instances of a tough old bird like McCain prevailing over a snot-nosed lazy little twit like Obama. Or, in deference to his wife, who knows him best, a pathetic little twit like Obama.
Experience and Treachery will always prevail over Youth and Enthusiasm.
Hate, fear and loathing? I know they are outdated. That’s why Obama uses SEXISM, RACISM, AGEISM and HOMOPHOBIA under the guise of HOPE and CHANGE! YES HE CAN throw everyone under a bus. Oh yes, he can.
Oh no, not preferential treatment!
They wrecked his shoulders instead of …. what exactly?
We hate that.
Can’t have it.
BREAKING!
McCain isn’t OBAMA!
Therefore, he gets my vote even if he’s a closet Charles Manson drag queen!
That says a lot about you.
Yes, it says that I, along with 18 million other voters, think for ourselves.
WE are the reason that the Democratic party will not fall victim to nutbags as the Republican party did.
We won’t stand for a take over; it’s not my fault you’re not paying attention…
“fairy tale” is racist? answer that.
“LBJ and MLK” is racist? answer that.
Defend Obama’s disapproving “unfortunate” response
Defend Obama’s keying in on the theme propagated by the media that teh Clintons are racists, with the “leaked” Obama memo detailing “racially sensitive comments.”
yes, it says that I have PRINCIPLES and seeing another so-called Dem attack teh only successful 2 term democrat in 40 years while praising Reagan, and calling two truly liberal Democratic powerhouses “racists” is AGAINST MY PRINCIPLES!
You and your dear leader will not be forgiven!
The fact that you’re unwilling to even consider that Obama is anything but “Great” says even more about you.
and mine as well. But keep ranting, if it makes you feel better. You won’t change our minds, but it is amusing to read your posts and realize anew how Barry Hussein inspires you to so much frothing at the