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1 in 5 people are morons.

I would suggest these idiots go read the United States Constitution.

I am sick of this fucking issue because it shouldn't be. There is no religious test to holding public office nor is there a religious test to be a citizen. His actions are what people should judge, not what god he claims to believe in. It is nothing but conspiracy crap on the part of those who cant stand the fact that their party lost the last election.

The United States is full of people with ethic and religious backgrounds from all over the world, and it has always been that way. It is sick to me that people still today want to try to link Obama to nuts like Bin Ladin because they lost an election.

Fortunately none of these conspiracy nuts had anything to do with the writing of our Constitution.

Even if he came out tomorrow and said, "I am a Muslim", that would not make him a terrorist or a criminal, nor would that disqualify him from the Presidency.

1 in 5 people believe he is a Muslim? SO THE FUCK WHAT, he isn't, not that anyone should care. Again, this is nothing but sour grapes on the part of the right wing because they didn't get the outcome of the election they wanted.

Oh..... I think you're giving the populace a lil' too much credit there, Bri.....

From what I understand without reading this article is that he was raised from 6-10 or something in a muslim community but I don't think that makes one a muslim.

It's just straw grabbing coupled with the general dislike of muslims in this country.

Personally I don't like Obama, I really don't like any politicians though some are just worse than others. It doesn't matter who we elect because they will have their party strings attached and we just have to watch them do the stupid puppet dance.

Yeah...seems like someone's always gotta be the bad guys...Before it was the Muslims, it was the Iraqis, then the Commies, then the Nazis and Japanese...

1 in 5 Americans also believe that the Sun rotates around the Earth.

Most of these people will think he is not an American citizen.  Whenever they say his name they'll always say, Barack Hussein Obama, because you know, Hussein means he's an evil Muslimist who wants to eat our babies don'tcha know!

Seriously, most of these people are willfully ignorant bigots.

I wouldn't be shocked if he was a closeted atheist/agnostic.  If he is a theist, he's a very liberal one.

Holy shit that's like 15%

Fact: 13 out of 14 RRS'ers believe that surveys collected and presented by corporate press agencies actually mean precisely what said agency claims they do

I don't know, but I think considering that the SCOTUS ruled earlier this year that Fox News Channel wasn't actually news but entertainment, it doesn't hurt to look at mass media with a skeptical eye...

Shut up Kyle and give me your Jew gold...

Maybe he meant the 2003 Florida Court of Appeals ruling that said Fox News had the right to lie during its "news" coverage?

http://ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html

I made the assertion that it reached the Supreme Court (SCoTUS), though...

Exactly Rebecca.... I believe this is all put out there to distract us from the larger Socio/political issues..... Like *who* is going to replace Danielle on Real NJ Housewives?......and Will Snookie ever find true Love?

The church I used to attend has some people who don't think he's a Muslim. they're all solid Fox News Christians, though.

Watching his presidency has, for me, been an exercise in good intentions being slowly ground to dust by idiots.  American's really do deserve the government they get.  Ever since he was elected it seems like a great many people have been hell bent on slitting their own throats just for spite, and showing the rest of the world how stupid we, as a people, can be.

Agreed... But we tried to be bipartisan and the GOP took advantage all the way. And now they're in a great position because of these attempts at bipartisanship.

This is a fairly well known phenomenon. Our minds do not behave the way we think they do. They are evolved for simple survival before all else. That means we have many mechanisms for accepting a thing as true. One of them is to accept what is commonly repeated as fact. However it extends to repeated connections also.

It works fine when everyone says, "Don't pet the lions." It works when all mentions of people and lions in the same breath imply danger. Lions and danger are quickly associated.

If the most commonly heard statements are to the effect Obama is a Muslim or if the most commonly heard statements are with Obama and Muslim in the same breath even if it is a denial is taken as fact.

In a news report about the subject there will be several mentions of his name and muslim but likely only one usage of Christian. A lead-in describing the misapprehension with muslim and Hussein said several times with only one statement that he is a Christian.

There is another aspect to it. The more aggressive the "correction" the more likley a person is to hold more strongly to the misconception. The attempt at correction appears to emphasize the ratio of many incorrect to one correction.

It is the same problem with dislodging religious beliefs.

I believe that with the attacks on Sep. 11th getting so much anti-muslim flack from the media, the general public are skiddish of anything Islamic. It is simple herd instinct. The media controls the uneducated mind. The hijackers were no more Muslim than the crusaders Christian.

If you should look into it you will find the claim of being religions of peace are frauds for both. It lets the members of one side claim to be the victims of the other.

Fact is religion has almost no effect upon behavior. The basics of religion are identical to the behavior required for social animals. One does not kill because it makes it dangerous to have such a person within a community.