So apparently, a pair of women in Muslim head coverings were not allowed to be seated behind Barack Obama at his big speech with Al Gore in Detroit last week. This was obviously a stupid thing for them to do, and the campaign apologized as soon as they heard about it.
What probably happened here is that a campaign volunteer - as opposed to, say, David Axelrod or Obama himself- did a stupid thing that the campaign backed away from the second they heard about it. To say this is somehow "hypocritical" would only be the case if it were the official policy of the campaign to kick Muslims off stage, and there's no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
And besides- who exactly would refuse to vote for Obama because of this? Someone who really loves Muslims but isn't exactly sure about Obama?
And no, when it comes to Obama and Islam, this isn't even the stupidest story of the day...
Posted by Stephen Silver at June 19, 2008 04:48 PM