The Pew Center national survey on Obama and his religion has been talked to death by pundits. 18% of Americans think Obama is a Muslim. And this is up 11% last March. Mind you, this is the same survey that indicates that 41% of Americans have never heard of the religious right, which I just don't believe. But, let's take the survey numbers as true.
This means that since last March, the anti-Obama-ists have managed to persuade approximately 21,490,000 people of an utter canard. Make no mistake and let us not bandy words lightly. The people who claim that Obama is a Muslim are either stupid or liars. There is no other option.
All Americans of any real intellect and/or any respect for the Constitution of the United States knows that the decent response to "Obama is a Muslim" is "So?" in as far as one wants to have the conversation within the bounds of ordinary American politics. My own response is more akin to "And this makes him different from other deluded, superstitious people how?"
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