Army of Dog

The Obamessiah comes to you with a message of hope, inclusion, international harmony, and racial unity … unless of course your a muslim chick in a headscarf.  In that case, you’d best scoot to the end of the stage where we can make sure you don’t wind up in the photos.

Two Muslim women at Barack Obama’s rally in Detroit 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 campaign has apologized to the women, all Obama supporters who said they felt betrayed by their treatment at the rally.

Cue the jokes about “These aren’t the volunteers I knew.”  Actually, the campaign spokesman was very careful to make sure that his statement included the idea that these were volunteers.

“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.”

My question is this:  Were these volunteers just random bigots who did all of this on their own?  I find it hard to believe that two separate campaign volunteers in two separate incidents managed to both have the same idea about women in headscarves?  Sounds a little thin to me.  I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this is campaign policy, but I would give excellent odds that these two got the idea to exclude hijabs from someone higher on the food chain.