Saturday Morning

You know what bothers me most about this whole "Obama is a Muslim" thing? It's that it seems to really come from nowhere. I used to get annoyed (more than I do now) at people who were utterly certain that 18,000 conspirators got together to murder John F. Kennedy but at least those folks had some actual evidence, however misinterpreted, that the official version was suspect. The Obama-Muslim meme seems to come down to "We don't like what's happening with the economy so the rumors must be true he's a Muslim. Especially since he's black." An awful lot of the folks saying that don't seem to know what a Muslim is, either. But then most of those same people don't seem to know what a Socialist is, what a Fascist is, what a Communist is, etc. All those terms are getting reduced to generic, interchangeable insults you hurl at anyone you don't like. "Hitler" is now a euphemism for "opponent."