I’m a card carrying conservative, but isn’t this detestation of Obama a bit OTT? He was an ambitious black man making his way up the greasy pole of American politics, isn’t it inevitable that he would frequently find himself in company with the (comparatively) far left of american political life? And what of it? I suspect there are not all that many politicians in America who are very much more principled than Obama, sad to say, or who have not, in the course of their political lives, had contacts and alliances which they would prefer were not exposed in the New York Times or on Fox News (depending on political hue). And this conspiracy theory about maybe Obama is a secret muslim, really! I can’t buy this. Let’s focus by all means on his political agenda, but let’s keep the mad paranoia out of it.