No, Obama isn’t a Muslim, and he isn’t a Christian either. The god he most likely believes in is Obama. Pretty small change as far as Supreme Beings go.
That said, Obama the Muslim is a crude but useful package for legitimate questions about this man, his core beliefs, his upbringing, his early influences and whether he even considers himself an American. Of course, he is legally, but he get America? Doubt it. His leftish sullen mother didn;’t. His father didn’t, and there’d be no reason why he should. His international experiences as a child would make him more a citizen of the world than of the USA. Then we have his delightful wife, his spiritual father, Rev Wright. His initial failure to understand why wearing a little flag on his lapel would matter to Americans is revealing. So we have here a tapestry woven with little troubling doubts. Obama is a muslim is a much simpler and direct way of putting the matter.
It’s unwise for McCain to descend to saying this; the public doesn’t want mud slinging. At any rate they don’t want to see any traces of mud on the next President’s hands. But GOP irregulars–we partisans–can and should keep sniping at him.
Quashing such smears and rumors oblige the Obamaites to divert resources and time. Also, these attacks put him on the defensive, where we are learning Mr Obama does not perform well. How many times did he change his story with respect to the Rev Wright scandal?
If you think that question is ancient history, then let’s pose a parallel one: How many times will President Obama have to correct himself and explain to world leaders what he “should have said”?
