Or could you just not resist the chance for yet another post with "women" in the headline?

Erica, you're devaluing your currency lately. What gives?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFREDHB-nQ

It didn't pass through either one of their hijab wearing heads that maybe their hijab wearing presence might not be the best idea for a man already under suspicion of being a closet Muslim, in a country at war with Islam and most intolerant of that religion?

I smell a rat.

A young Muslim woman said she and another woman were refused seats directly behind Barack Obama — and in front of TV cameras — at a Detroit rally because they wear head scarfs.

FTFY.

Lookout, I hear a woman rode a brakeless direct drive bicycle the other day too.

If this (alleged) act by a field surrogate is all it takes to put you off Obama when it comes to his relationship with persons of the Islamic confession, then you best sit out the election.

Obama has had ample opportunity to diss Islamic Americans and he has forgone those opportunities. Think about it -- brother gets shit for his name, his childhood...and he never says, "Oh, yeah, I'm with you. Those Muslims are bad shit!"

If anything, he's done exactly the opposite.

So you go ahead with your tender little seismic needle, Cook, and quiver at every perceived slight. Meanwhile, I'm going to sit back and watch Obama be an amazing role model for how to slam back at his critics without throwing Muslims to the wolves.

Yeah! Muslim Americans should be invisible in their support of the Democrats. Just like the gays... (Someone needs to clue them in.)

For Immediate Release:
Barack Obama is an American Citizen

Meanwhile, back to the free trade issue, he's backing off the stance that he'll just tell the Canadians and Mexicans where to put their Nafta:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/18/magazines/fortune/easton_obama.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008061810

Also, maybe it's just me, but just because this is "alleged" doesn't mean I'm not going to take it seriously. Why would these women claim that they were persecuted by Obama's campaign? Doesn't that seem kind of outrageous to accuse?

And I've never been for Obama. It doesn't matter if I vote for him or not though, because whichever state I vote in he will win by a large majority (California and Washington? come on.) My vote is his to gain, and if he comes back and fires the staffer who carried this out and speaks against this racist act, then I'll certainly like him a lot more. But since I'm a Middle Easterner, I guess I should just shut up and hope for change, huh?

"Why are we being singled out?" asked prominent New Jersey-area party clown Dr. Guffawsalot, tying a balloon animal as he spoke to reporters at a children's birthday party in Great Neck. "Is McCain saying that his precious image is more important than our right to show our support for the only candidate who shares our values and speaks for people like us?"

Repeated questions to the McCain campaign over whether campaign "branding" considerations might dictate seating arrangements behind the podium at televised events remained unanswered at press time.

The McCain campaign has for months been dogged by persistent rumors that the candidate is secretly a red-nosed, big-shoed, horn-honking clown, with some polls indicating that as much as 27% of the population believes this to be the case. There is widespread speculation that this may have made his campaign staff unusually sensitive to anything that might encourage such associations in the public eye.

I can still be out and proud and sitting out of camera range until we get our man elected.

The public, especially the American public, is a fickle bastard/bitch. Obama might be ahead in the polls in mid-June, but it's a long haul until November and the Republicans have successfully used flim-flammery in the past to distract the ignorant masses.

i don't think this means obama is over, but everyone needs to admit that this scenario ("hijab-gate," if you will) is f-ed up on many levels.

i hope obama wins over mccain, but first, a few points:

1) obama's stance on israel/palestine is THE SAME as bush's (and clinton's for that matter) (As in, only one side is allowed to have bombs, and we'll (taxpayers) buy them!)

2) his stance on gay marriage is that he was to "protect the sanctity of marriage, that it is between a man and a woman." WTF?

ok at least he wants civil unions, but come on seattle..

so where's the liberal candidate in this election?? the US political scene blows - we're given a fake choice, just like last time around (two skull n' bones frat bros battling for prez).

ugh.

Didn't you get the prime directive? A vote for McCain in 2008 equals a vote for Hillary in 2012.

So this post was an attempt at humor?

Anyone want to tackle that one? I'm not sure where to begin.

1. We can end this "Obama is a muslim, muslim-lover, etc." bullshit.
2. Obama can apologize and blame it on Islamophobic Detroitites.
3. Michigan gets egg on its face as payback for their Hillary backing.