TPM Reader JW chimes in on Obama …
I was surprised at work the other day when I heard two of my co-workers discussing Obama. One, a right winger, called him “Osama” and said he’s a Muslim. I said his name correctly and said he wasn’t a Muslim. The other, a hard-core liberal hippie, said something in support, then added, “He is a Muslim, though.” This threw me: I was far from an Obama expert, but I remembered Obama being a Christian. Their
resoluteness quieted me, though. So, now I check, and of course, he’s a Baptist – and I remember how he said the title of his book came from a sermon from his pastor. So, the point is this: the bigger meme is just
to make people think Obama’s a Muslim. Obviously someone has been putting out this meme even before this new fabrication. Even if people hear that the madrassa he attended wasn’t radical, the main sales pitch
has been delivered: Obama was at a madrassa because he’s a Muslim. Not that it matters to me what his religious affiliation is. But this is the hook, and a lot of people will be driven off from Obama just for
this simple deception. His religion, remarkably, needs to be clarified for most people.
Soup to nuts. Or in this case, Greenfield to Fox.
