The photo below was on the front page of the NYTimes yesterday. It accompanied an article about how many Muslims feel that they are being snubbed by Obama as he tries to get the rest of America to understand that he isn’t Muslim.

The caption read:

“Muslim women at an Obama rally in February. Last week, two Muslim women were not allowed to appear behind the candidate.”

The photo seems to finish the thought:

Yesterday, the campaign revised it’s position, instituting a “rafters” policy under which Muslims may only sit in the very last row of any arena lest they surreptitiously sneak into the frame of any photographs of the candidate.

What a cheap shot.

With all of the options he had, the photographer trolled the nose-bleeds looking for the Jim Crow photo, like Obama made them step to the back of the bus. I don’t condone the Obama campaign’s decision to remove the two Muslim women from behind the candidate, but let’s not insinuate the he then deposited them in the hinterlands of the arena for good measure.

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