Disgusting: Obama Volunteers Asked Supporters in Headscarves to Move Out of Camera Shot.

Of course, if we just treated people as individuals rather collectives, we wouldn’t have this problem.

I don’t mean to criticize Obama personally, but if volunteers were doing this, does anyone believe that they weren’t told to do so by someone higher up?

This incident serves as a reminder of why government coercion is so dangerous.  Even if Obama is as great as many of his supporters think he is, it’s simply not possible for one person to prevent every possible abuse of power.  How could Obama as president stop government bureaucrats (or agencies, or entire branches of government) from abusing power any better than he could prevent discrimination in his own campaign?

Of course, from the War on Poverty to the War on Terror, such abuses are what’s been happening for administration after administration, Democrat and Republican alike.  The solution is not to find the right person to “manage” the government, but to eliminate those unconstitutional aspects of government that restrict human liberty in the first place.