Taking a page from the playbook of the Swift Boat Veterans, who neatly managed to turn John Kerry's wartime heroism into a liability, Obama's multi-ethnic, multi-national background, so appealing to Americans who are not nuts, provides plenty of grist for conspiracy theorists, only this time it is Islamic mullahs instead of Chinese Communists pulling the candidate's strings.
If that seems unbelievably ham-handed, a reader directs me to the Web site of something called the North Carolina Independent Media Center, whose profile of "Barack Hussein Obama" identifies him as a secret Muslim and ends this way:
"Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Osama [sic] was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta.
"Wahabism is the radical teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.
"Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.
"Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy."
Note the accidental shift from "Obama" to "Osama" in one reference and the dropping of his last name altogether so he becomes the ooo-scary "Barack Hussein" in another.
We in the cosmopolitan Chicago area might not realize how eagerly they lap up this sort of drivel in the intellectual wastelands between the cities. Sometimes you have to wonder why a man would want to be president of this madhouse.
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