O thanks troops on Christmas

Thanking the Troops in Person on Christmas Day

The loons say he's a Jihader sympathizer and the "legitimate" right offers them aid and comfort.

In a new NPR interview, President Obama complains that "strains in the Republican party suggest that somehow I'm different, I'm Muslim, I'm disloyal to the country, which unfortunately is pretty far out there." 

Is it?

While there's no evidence to suggest Obama is a practicing Muslim, there is plenty to suggest he is disloyal. 

He not only shares Muslim hatred for America and Israel, but actually sympathizes with the endless anti-Western grievances lodged by Muslim terrorists.

The reason the president won't engage this enemy is because he sides with it, not because he can't see it or understand it. 

It is not a matter of incompetence. 

It is a matter of bias.

If this sounds like betrayal, that is because it is.

The Birchers said Eisenhower was a Communist.

Was GW a Muslim? A Jihad sympathizer?

Democrats Find an Unlikely Ally on Muslims: George W Bush

The Democrats are blurring distinctions, of course.

The GOP candidates are not calling for a war against Islam but boots on the ground against ISIS and a far more aggressive approach to fighting "radical Islamic terrorism."

And mostly they left Trump isolated in his call for a purely temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration and travel to the US, though a fair number of conservative pundits have gone further than he has and called for a ban without at all qualifying it as "temporary."

But the Republicans blur distinctions, too, mistaking or misrepresenting their doubts about whether the president is native-born or about his religion for evidence he is disloyal, betraying the country, or just laying down on the job of defending it.

How's this from September 2015 strike you?

[A] majority of Trump's supporters . . . also believe Obama is secretly harboring faith in Islam, according to a CNN/ORC poll conducted earlier this month. 

That poll found that 54% of Trump supporters believe Obama is a Muslim. 

Among Republicans nationwide, the poll showed, 43% of Republicans think Obama is Muslim, as do 29% of Americans as a whole.

Trump, ever the bomb-thrower, has repeatedly expressed uncertainty about the president being native born and about his religion as part of his political attacks on the president.

But the birth issue has to do with O's being constitutionally qualified to be president and has nothing to do with his loyalty, religion, political views or aspirations, or competence for the job.

And if O were secretly a Muslim he would be a Muslim much as a liberal Christian with some sympathy for Black Liberation Theology is a Christian, or perhaps as a secular Jew is a Jew.

Everything we know about him and have seen of his conduct in office belies he is a Muslim at all, and even more emphatically belies that he is a Muslim as the Ayatollahs are Muslims or as the Taliban are Muslims.

And it is lunatic to suppose he has any sympathy at all with the religious ideas or political aspirations of the likes of ISIS or any others of the Jihaders.