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.
I just realized that Senator McCain doesn’t adhere to the de facto requirement that an aspiring president’s website only use red white and blue. His banner is black[1] and gold (my high school’s colors).
Gosh John, you maverick, you.
John
Cf. Hillary
Cf. Barack
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[1] I suppose, technically, Barack’s banner has some black in it too…
Saw this quote (originally in the Guardian) in an email from a friend:
“If one candidate is trying to scare you, and the other’s trying to get you to think; if one is appealing to your fears, and the other is appealing to your hopes — it seems to me you ought to vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”
Bill Clinton, 10/26/04 while campaigning for Senator Kerry (link)
Hendrik Hertzberg has a blistering piece in the New Yorker on the State of the Union, Senator Webb’s response, and the President’s mishandling of the war.
And so, rather than looking for a policy that might be within our means and might mitigate the disaster, Bush is betting all his chips—all our chips—on the only choice that allows him the fantasy that in the end people will say: Bush was right. He is sending twenty thousand because twenty thousand is all he has. Next to nothing in the way of ground forces remains for other contingencies. His Presidency and his “legacy” are in ruins anyway, so he imagines he has nothing to lose. If only that were true of the rest of us.
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