The Whispers Continue

Hillary asks why Barack Obama can't close the deal and run her off into the sunset. One of the reasons has to do with race -- she has been able to play up her ethnicity and play on racist fears, which unfortunately are still with us. She doesn't have to try very hard at this. She doesn't have to be overtly racist. She just has to portray herself as the champion of white working folks.

But even more troublesome is the continued attempts to portray Obama as a Muslim. Here it's less a direct campaign tactic, though her surrogates have sowed seeds here and there. The Obama's a Muslim is similar to that long running Procter and Gamble story -- that the head of P&G went on the Donahue show and declared his allegiance to Satan. It's a story that's been passed on very years.

What is interesting is that this new "whisper campaign" benefits from the viral nature of emails. Just got one today. Maybe you've seen it, it's the one that suggests that Obama might be the anti-Christ -- as prophesied in the Bible. And of course, he's supposedly a Muslim, and here's the kicker -- if you don't believe me, snopes.com proves it. The truth is otherwise, but how many people check out snopes. All you have to do is put that in and people assume it's true. These emails just keep getting passed on without much thought -- often by good Christians who would be horrified to learn that they're engaging not only in gossip but slander.

On the Obama as anti-Christ -- see here.

Let us deal with facts not fables, shall we not?

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