<p>Obama's news <a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011799,00.html">continues to be bad</a>:</p>
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<p>Nearly one third of the country thinks adherents of Islam should be barred from running for President &mdash; slightly higher than the 24% who mistakenly believe that the current occupant of the Oval Office is himself a Muslim.</p>
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<p>Well, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck&hellip; What could possibly give the impression that he's a Muslim? His first television interview ever as president was with a Arab news organization. He gives speeches in Muslim nation where he derides the United States. He cheers for a center of worship for the religion of the attackers who brought down the Twin Towers. Heck, even Ted Kennedy thought his name was Osama. As in, bin Laden. He claims to be a Christian, yet still doesn't attend a church over a year into his presidency, a surprising thing for an American president, even a Democrat. The final straw will be if he starts yelling &quot;Death to America&quot; during his radio addresses. Then even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Kos">Markos Moulitsas</a> will have to admit something wasn't quite right.</p>
<p>To be fair, maybe he hasn't found just the right cauldron of America haters and practitioners of black liberation theology in Washington like he had in Chicago. If he really wants to hear like-minded anti-American hate mongers, he could try listening to Nancy Pelosi, as painful as that would be.</p>
<p>Back to the Muslim issue. He may not consider himself a Muslim, but a lot of Muslims do, as this 2008 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html?_r=3&amp;pagewanted=print">New York Times article </a>describes:</p>
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<p>As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother&rsquo;s Christian background is irrelevant.</p>
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<p>I hear Muslims don't like apostasy. They have interventions and groups hugs for that sort of thing. Just kidding! They actually do beheadings. But to each there own, right? Coexist, as the bumper sticker reads on the cars of the brainwashed. More polling:</p>
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<p>And while more Americans are open to the idea of having a mosque built in their neighborhoods than near Ground Zero, it's still not an overwhelming majority; 55% of respondents say they would favor the construction of an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from their own homes, and an equal number say they believe most Muslims are &quot;Patriotic Americans.&quot;</p>
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<p>I have to take issue with the &quot;Patriotic Americans&quot; issue statement, though. I have a Muslim a few doors down from me, and he has a Virg Bernero sign in his front yard, which means he's not really a patriotic American, he's a Democrat.<br />
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