--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/4/08 9:10:48 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Wouldn't it be interesting if Americans chose between a black > Muslim and a white Baptist minister for president? > > Obama isn't a muslim and never was, you idiot!!! dixon doesn't even > have a basic knowledge of the facts in geopolitics. > > oooooooooh, this is so interesting. Some seem very defensive > of the assertion that Obama is (correct or not) a Muslim. Would > that be an embarrassment if he were? A political liability? Now, > who's the xenophobe?
The Muslim label is worse than xenophobic if the labeler is aware (as you are) that Obama isn't a Muslim, because then it's a purely cynical ploy to appeal to xenophobes who are too ignorant to realize it's a lie (in whose eyes being a Muslim *would* be a political liability). The "embarrassment," though, belongs solely to the unscrupulous cynics like yourself. And *especially* to you, since you obviously set this up so you could suggest that those who found the labeling (as opposed to the label itself) offensive were xenophobic.
