Elections 2008: Trashing Barack

Since it is likely to be a frequent subject of my blogs, I am going to make it an official tag along with the short-lived Sacagawea series and the semi-regular Douchebag series. By the way, I am still primarily using golden dollars, but they are very hard to come by these days.

In any case, right-wing bloggers and journalists are still trying to find the chink in the ever-growing popularity of Barack Obama's political armor. It seems that they are hoping this weakness is his connection to Islam. FoxNews's "Fox & Friends" made this their question of the day: Barack's background: Ancient History or Madrasa Matters? Throughout the show they spoke to callers about the possibility that Obama was educated in Madrasas using a Wahhabiist curriculum, which they also argue (somewhat correctly) is based on hating America.

First of all, although they openly claim that he is hiding his past connections to Islam while living in Indonesia, anyone who has read either of his books knows better. I've read Audacity of Hope and it clearly talks about his 2 years (?) of education as a child in a Muslim school before going on to a Catholic school. How is that hiding?

Secondly, they continue to bring up his middle name - Hussein. At this point, their arguments are bathing in the wretched stench of desperation and even - dare I say - xenophobia. His non-practicing Muslim father gives him a very common Arab middle name and all of a sudden he is a terrorist? Give me a break. This reminds me of my previous post where conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel came up just short of calling Obama a terrorist.

At some point they are going to need to come up with something better if they want to defeat him. Especially if they are even considering a candidate like Mitt Romney who has blatantly switched views on many major issues just to be a more suitable candidate for the Republicans