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Did you see Stephen Colbert's thing about Hillary Rodham Clinton being a Muslim? Her maiden name does rhyme with Saddam...

Anyway, a friend and I were talking about head scarves becoming trendy. The headline on Fox news,"ISLAMIC INFILTRATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE, OBAMA TO BLAME"

I'm pretty sure I've heard him talk about what he would do. What has Hillary said about the unconstitutional executive orders? The only thing I've heard her talk about is health care, and whether she prefers diamonds or pearls!

And Barack's mother was white, and probably of Christian ancestry, which makes him non-Muslim, but I don't even see why it's a problem. So what if he was not a Christian? Would you want someone making a big deal about the fact that Hillary's dad was a Jew (if he was, hypothetically)? Probably not. This is America after all, we do have a thing called equality. In my opinion, what his dad was or was not isn't an issue. He wasn't raised by his father, he was raised by his Anglo/Saxon grandparents. That sounds real menacing, doesn't it? If he became president it wouldn't be some sort of champion for the terrorists, I'd say that if he was elected it would be a champion for the American people. For us to put this cultural tizzy behind would be very mature, and maturity isn't something we've had a lot of these past 8 years.

I so totally agree Dis! This jibber jabber about who's Muslim and who isn't is really uncalled for, especially in our great nation.

Anyway, his pops was "reared" among Muslims, but he became an Atheist when he left Africa.

You know, I read an interesting article on the Huffington Post the other day. It was an editorial by a former Clinton supporter. He brought up some interesting points that I think Hill supporters should think about before they completely remove Obama out of the picture.

Now way back in 1992 when my BFF (and I mean that) Bill was running for president, he was so very determined. He had no foreign policy experience, being that he was only a governor from the great state of Arkansas, he had a rough past, and he was relatively young at 46 (which happens to be Senator Obama's age). He was elected though, and it wasn't just some huge coincidence either. He became president because he had a message of hope and of change. Does that sound familiar?

I know you're probably wondering what that has to do with Hillary, but what exactly is she always saying about Barack? The same characteristics that she shoots him down over are the same qualifications, or lack there of, that her husband had not too long ago. However, Bill Clinton tried, and he became a very decent president for our country.

And no, I don't think experience has much to do with success, I think compassion has to do with success. I think perseverance has to do with success, and that something that Obama has a lot of. He's ready to take on the system and look at everything with a fresh mind. That sounds pretty good to me.

Hillary knows that this junior senator is a threat now, quite unexpectedly, and she's doing the best she can to split the democratic party. They both are in a way. That's what we have to worry about. All I care about is that when Barack Obama gets the democratic nomination all the Hillary fans still decide to vote for Obama, even if he wasn't their man...or woman.

Just to correct you, the Democrats favor tax cuts for middle class, tax hikes only for people who make $200,000+ per year.

And on Iraq; they'd need a world class economy to be a threat to us (let's face it, long range weapons require lots of money), and world class economies don't like to wage war on other world class economies. Also, we left Vietnam and they're out friend now.

The hijackers were mainly from Saudi Arabia, which is where Osama himself is from. the Sauds are our allies, though.

As for helping Middle Eastern nations; we could stop sending them to war for a start. As for their economy, we can both get some benefit from it; we send over specialists to build them some modern infrastructure, we get money, they get to do business at a high level.

As I've said in many a debate, "the man who must work 40 hours a week to feed his family is much less likely to take up arms against his neighbors". Build them schools, universities, factories, and hospitals. Educate them, feed them, and send them to work as doctors, diplomats, computer technicians, and other medium to high income jobs, and you'll see terrorism dry up very quickly. This can be helped, even further, by allowing them to choose their own government (not just forcing democracy on them, but allowing them to choose between two-party democracy, parliament style, monarchy, or something else).