Shocking misinformation

Yes, I know there's all that blather about Obama's being a Muslim, not a native born American, a socialist, etc.  But the degree to which the demonization of Barack Obama has taken hold is shocking and absurd.

Public Policy Polling has asked "likely voters" in Republican primaries in Mississippi and Alabama what they believe Obama's religion is.   Here are the results:

                         Mississippi          Alabama       

Christian                12%                   14%

Muslim                   52%                   45%

Not sure                 36%                   41%

I don't suggest that any of the candidates' campaigns are pushing this, but they aren't doing anything to combat it -- like John McCain did in 2008, when he stopped a woman at one of his rallies and corrected her when she said Obama was a Muslim.

Instead, we get meanly-mouthed responses, like "He says he is a Christian."   "I have no proof that he's not."   And then there was the despicable Franklin Graham on TV casting doubt -- only later to issue a retraction and apology, but one of those "if I said anything that caused offense . . ." kind of non-apologies.

Of course, I want to jump in and say, "So what if he were a Muslim?   Is there something categorically wrong with that?"

Ralph