Hate, not incident at Obama rally, is the real issue
By ROCHELLE RILEY • FREE PRESS BLOGGER • June 19, 2008
We are missing the bigger story.
That two young Muslim women wearing head scarves were steered away from seats behind Sen. Barack Obama at his televised Detroit rally on Monday was sad, but not the bigger story.
That his campaign apologized, as it should have, for the badly mishandled incident by campaign volunteers was not the bigger story.
The bigger story is that hateful extremists who used to exist on the fringe of society are now taking over and too much is being done to appease them instead of ignore them.
The Obama volunteers who didn't want the women to provide fuel for rumors that Obama is a secret Muslim chose to let hate-mongers dictate their actions and hurt the women's feelings. They made a mistake, as far as we know. (Of course, the Web would have you believe that they did it on purpose because they KNEW that these women were actually plants by Sen. John McCain's campaign, an unlikely but possible scenario that seems all the more impossible when you read about their wonderful attitudes.)
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080619/BLOG08/80619032
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"The bigger story is how the 2008 presidential campaign is giving more power to bigots, spigots and the hateful fringe than ever."
That quote is the last line of the article that this blog links to. I agree, but I don't think the campaign is the cause of this; rather, the PC police and the universal effort to dumb everything down to the lowest possible common denominator have given rise to the tyranny of hate and mediocrity. Discernment and excellence are not only no longer valued in the USA, they barely exist at all. Instead of working to change what is wrong with our country, we are constantly assailed to accept sub-par performance, products, and people as "normal" or "good." Sorry, but no matter what you tell my brain, my nose still knows that bullshit stinks.
Winger: "Grey Kitty" slammed the piss out of you in the JT Farewell blog. It's gettin' good in the hood playa!!
Hypocrisy seems to know no bounds. Can you even imagine the roar if McCain had done this?
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