Throwing in the towel on the "Obama is a Muslim" meme, the right is now tarring Barack by claiming he... belongs to a black church! How dare he!
Sean Hannity has ripped the church as "divisive"- and compared it to a cult- because it claims on its website that it supports "commitment to God, commitment to the black community, commitment to the black family, and adherence to the black work ethic." Clearly our nation must be defended from such evil, subversive, far-left-wing ideas. Because obviously, black churches have never done any good for America.
So yes, the Republicans - who claim to be the party of people of faith and bash the Democrats as "Godless" and the "party of death" and claim that those resisting the religious right are attacking faith itself- are now vilifying Barack Obama because of... his commitment to his religion. And if they're not tying Obama to one world religion, they just try another. I can't wait until someone tries to complete the trifecta by calling Obama a "bad Jew."
Thankfully Erik Rush, the dim-witted columnist who originated this nonsense, was on Fox News tonight and appeared so overmatched that he was actually outargued decisively by Alan Colmes. Not an easy feat, to be sure.
Posted by Stephen Silver at March 1, 2007 12:56 AM