http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/0...ay-hes-muslim/
I think the conservative/republikkkan/tea-party/Fox machine worked once again and has convinced millions of nervous white people that Obama is not a Christian.
Over the last decade, the religious far-right has beaten their chests and taken their bull-horns and drowned us in christian rhetoric. The republikkkans used the religious right to further their own ends for political gain. It got so bad that if a candidate didn't pass their little litmus test, they got pubically flogged. People voted for candidates for any type of office based on their religious leanings. President Obama decided he was not going to wear his Christianity on his sleeve. Your faith is a private matter and that's how it should stay.
Of course, none of this has calmed the birthers and racists. Their only real goal is to get a conservative back in the White House, but the masses don't see that. They allow their worries about the economy, fear of terror attacks, and their hatred of a person of color as the President of the United Stated of America.
Just a few scant years ago, it was typical for white people to give a Dr. laura-type of comment and say that there would be no racism if only "the blacks" would stop whining about it. I don't hear white people saying that anymore. Why do they need to when we have racist commentators like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, the two Lauras, Michael Savage, and all the other conservative nut-jobs, doing it for them?
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