UR SO STUPID

Everyone else may be watching CNN,waiting for that swirly red mass of Ike to make landfall in Texas, but I'm still reeling from an NPR piece on York, PA on race and politics. It just so happens I was in York a couple of weeks ago, moving neice Katie D. and hubby John from their suburban 4 bedrm, to a storage locker in Syracuse. Ringed by interstate, York is a former small town PA., Civil war battle field, turned urban sprawl nightmare, that for some reason was picked by NPR to encompass a nebulous demographic of "Amerika". Why not?
So I listened with expanded interest as the microphone went around the room regarding Obama and McCain. White and Black, the York folks made their points regarding what they thought about the candidates and how they would vote. To nobody's surprise the voting fell along racial lines. Then some white woman made a very honest admission. She said she felt that Obama had, early on, become a Muslim. And no matter what he said now- "...once a Muslim, always a Muslim." This woman was genuinely afraid that Obama, being a Muslim, would, if elected President, sell us all out to his more radical breathren. There was no way she would vote for this Muslim. Jihad mutherfucker.
The NPR host was taken aback, but did nothing to dispell this view point, other than reiterate that Obama had assured the public over and over that he was a Christian. Well, what would be so bad if he was a Muslim? Wasn't JFK Catholic? The fact that NPR never even brought this point up leads one to believe that to be a Muslim in American politics is something akin to a Jew running for Furer. I'm so happy my neice is now living in a Storage container in Syracuse. Leave York to the ignorant. I heart NY.