[troutman]

Originally Posted by peter12

Bah, I hate that rationale. If Clinton or Obama lose this next election, it will strictly be based along the fact they didn't run successful campaigns, not because Americans are so backward as to reject a woman or a black man (also a Muslim). American voters show themselves very open to voting for both such "groups".

Funny how Canadians can't really seem to get up the guts to vote for anything but a white, upper-class man.

Obama is not Muslim:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

A theme of Obama's keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and the title of his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, was inspired by his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.[146] In Chapter 6 of the book, titled "Faith," Obama writes that he "was not raised in a religious household." He describes his mother, raised by non-religious parents, as detached from religion, yet "in many ways the most spiritually awakened person that I have ever known." He describes his Kenyan father as "raised a Muslim," but a "confirmed atheist" by the time his parents met, and his Indonesian step-father as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." The chapter details how Obama, in his twenties, while working with local churches as a community organizer, came to understand "the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change." Obama writes: "It was because of these newfound understandings—that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for economic and social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved—that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of Trinity United Church of Christ one day and be baptized.