Ironic Surrealism II

Warning: May cause severe indigestion.

WaPo After Free Republic Again, Now Over Barack-is-a-Muslim Email - Stop The ACLU

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Posted on June 28, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston

The Washington Post published a June 28th piece geared to protect Barack Obama from the nagging rumors that he is a secret Muslim, rumors that have been circulating since 2004. The Post’s Matthew Mosk penned an attack on Free Republic, based on an Obama flak who claims she has somehow discovered that Freepers are to blame, if not initially responsible, for floating the Barack-is-a-Muslim chain email that so many millions of Americans have found in their email boxes over the last four years. But, the Washington Post’s article is so filled with assumptions and a singular desire not to really investigate the matter that it boggles the mind. Naturally, all the journalistic missteps serve to shield Barack Obama from any controversy and make all opposition seem nefarious or unhinged.

The Obama flak in question is one Danielle Allen of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton. Mosk wishes to assure us that she is one smart cookie, apparently. To settle any question to the contrary, we are treated to some earnest, if over-the-top, adulation for good Doctor Allen. Allen is called a “razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist,” that she’s “gained valuable insight into the way political information circulates,” and that she works at the institute “most famous for having been the research home of Albert Einstein.” Mosk tells us that Allen “boasts two doctorates, one in classics from Cambridge University and the other in government from Harvard University.” The Post tells us that one winter morning Allen was “studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation’s most brilliant minds.” Mosk also tells us that Allen “works alongside groundbreaking physicists, mathematicians and social scientists. They don’t have to teach, and they face no quotas on what they publish. Their only mandate is to work in the tradition of Einstein, wrestling with the most vexing problems in the universe.”[…]
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Cheese & rice!

Obama’s defense has now risen to astronomical levels, damn near meteoric proportions. Are we to believe the now infamous [and what I thought to be long forgotten] Barack Obama-is-a-Muslim chain email, is one of the “most vexing problems in the universe”?

Take into consideration the commentary of Roger Gardner as left on the above article.
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Wow. First of all, to the main issue — Whether or not Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim. I always found it a very convincing argument that if you are born a Muslim to a Muslim father and you attend a Muslim madrassa, you are indeed a Muslim. Further,we have been informed by reliable sources that a Muslim cannot repudiate his Muslim status; if he attempts to leave Islam for some other religion, he automatically becomes an apostate. And the fate of an apostate is well known.

Secondly, does merely pointing this out somehow constitute some form of slander? If demonstrating that technically someone may still be a Muslim, even if they have subsequently embraced a different religion is slanderous, then what does this say about Islam?

Obamamaniacs are just following their leader. Or is he following their lead? The line is blurred I am afraid.

“We know what kind of campaign they are going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young. He’s inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And, did I mention he’s black.” - Barack Obama Jacksonville Florida fund raiser June 20 2008

Then there is this.
Obama Partisans Threaten “Expose-Obama” Staff - 7.62 Justice

June 25, 2008 By PA Pundits

[…]Two of the common themes that run through many of the hateful e-mails we receive are; an overt hatred of patriotism and Christianity, and a desire that there actually be LAWS against people who ask legitimate questions or tell the truth when it comes to Barack Hussein Obama![…]

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[…]When we announced the release of our latest ad — which asks a very simple yet legitimate question, “Was Barack Obama A Muslim” — Obama’s attack-dog minions and supporters obtained Floyd Brown’s home telephone number and deluged him AND HIS FAMILY with obscene and threatening phone calls.[…]

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Lastly…
Obama Supporter, “I hope (McCain) dies before November” - Macsmind

Now where did I put that bottle of TUMS®?

Update:
For fricks sake!
‘We Are All Hussein’ - JammieWearingFool

Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name[…]

and…
Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform - Stop The ACLU

Update: Perhaps it isn’t google, but Obamaniacs taking advantage of google’s faulty system.
Regardless who is at fault, this shutting down of free speech is disturbing.