Obama and Hijab

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The latest Obama dustup has to do with a few earnest campaign workers "who refused to let two women wearing head scarves into a campaign photo-op."

While I think this is a tempest in a teapot, I do wish the Democrats would act a little less, for lack of a better term, Republican when it comes to episodes like this. I can't help thinking of the hideous "free speech zones" (the phrase is about as oxymoronic as can be imagined) that the Dems set up in Boston in 2004 to keep any potential threats away from their fragile John Kerry.

The Obama story also reminds me of the 1963 picture to the right wherein it's clear that those behatted individuals behind Dr. King are of a particular religious persuasion. Their presence in this, one of the greatest photo ops of the 20th century, certainly didn't take away from the moment or its memory.