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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Oliver Burkeman

Do try to keep up: calling Barack Obama a Muslim terrorist is so last week

Obama banner

Look, get with the program: it's true that a few days ago, Barack Obama was indeed a secret Muslim terrorist Muslim with connections to home-grown Pentagon-bombers, and also an enthusiastic Arab who faked his own birth certificate using Tony Rezko's high-tech birth-certificate-faking machine, but now he is a "decent family man" and the election campaign is going to be a fair and respectful one. But fair enough, I suppose: you spent so much time this weekend with the marker pens, and the first time round you didn't leave enough space for the second 'a' in Obama, so you had to start all over again, and so who can really blame you for taking your banner along to this morning's McCain/Palin rally in Virginia Beach? [via Huffington Post]

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