On Oct 20, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro wrote: > Julia Thompson wrote: >> >> It's like the people running around accusing Obama of being a >> Muslim -- >> it's inaccurate, but they may have been lied to by people who want >> to turn >> opinion against Obama, and not be intending to lie. >> > That would be the perfect conspiracy theory, following the > Bush-is-a-Manchurian-candidate conspiracy. If Bush is at sold > of some foreign sheiks, what would be best for them then to > blunder everything in the final weeks, weaken the Republican > candidate to death, and place a Muslim at the POTUS? :-) > > Alberto Monteiro
You know what? a) Barack Obama is *not* a Muslim, and I have a fairly high degree of confidence in that statement. b) If he were, I'd be even *more* likely to vote for him. I have to ask -- would it be so unimaginably bad to have a Muslim holding public office in this country? The most disturbing part of the rumor to me isn't the suggestion that he might be, it's the implication behind the rumor that that would be a reason to disqualify him from office. The former is merely slander; the latter is un- American in the most bigoted way. (The fact that it's historically consistent is no excuse as far as I'm concerned.) "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
