More Racial Cruelty From Obama

The anything to win folks think nothing of trouncing on their party's supposed commitment to racial sensitivity. Of course, Democrats aren't used to being held to the standard they set for the rest of the world.

One of two Muslim women who were denied visible seats behind Barack Obama’s stage at Joe Louis Arena on Monday because they wore head scarves said they deserve a personal apology from Obama and close-up seats at a future campaign rally.

That's it? How about Stones tickets?

Hebba Aref, 25, and her friend, Shimaa Abdelfadeel, received apologies from the campaign Tuesday after they complained that they were not allowed to sit near the podium when campaign volunteers learned that they wear the traditional Muslim head garb called a hijab.

They're surprised? Perhaps they didn't hear about it, back in April, when the same thing happened with people of different skin tints.

“Get me more white people, we need more white people,” one campaign coordinator said to another.

Here's another quote from the story in the school newspaper, the Tartan: "To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, 'We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.'"

If she was better informed, she might have known this is, apparently, the campaign's standard MO.

“I was kind of in shock that had happened,” said Aref, a Bloomfield Hills resident and graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. “I’ve lived here practically my whole life, and never been treated that way.

Aref said she received a phone call and apology from an Obama campaign offiicial, but said that’s not enough.

Will this get 1% of the play that the mainstream media would give it if the McCain campaign had committed such a PC infraction - repeatedly? Not likely.

That incident began when the volunteer asked Aref’s friend Ali Koussan and two others, Aref’s brother Sharif and another young lawyer, Brandon Edward Miller, whether they would like to sit behind the stage. The three young men said they would but mentioned they were with friends.

The men said the volunteer, a 20-something African-American woman in a green shirt, asked if their friends looked and were dressed like the young men, who were all light-skinned and wearing suits.

Miller said yes but mentioned that one of their friends was wearing a headscarf with her suit.

The volunteer “explained to me that because of the political climate and what’s going on in the world and what’s going on with Muslim Americans, it’s not good for [Aref] to be seen on TV or associated with Obama,” said Koussan, a law student at Wayne State University.

Hey Barack - can you say zero tolerance? Muslims are already unhappy with Barack for a perceived slight - when clarifying the fact that he is not Muslim, he says it, as if, perhaps, that's a bad thing.