Hehe, us youngins love to give crap.
It is just annoying when people make accusations against others, in this case Obama, without any substance at all. There's no proof Obama was a Muslim. We actually have a Muslim congressman. That's why America is supposed to be so great. We have the right to practice or not practice any kind of religon we want.
The people who usually do this type of smearing are those that have some deep, often false fears. My Grandfather would straight up tell you that he "won't vote for a [black man]" (and he ain't saying "black man"). I'm not saying that's you by any stretch, however there's a lot of people out there. And a lot of people, driven by hate, with the aid of internet can cause many problems.
My sophomore year here I took a history course - medieval, renaissance, and middle age history in Europe. Every war and conflict was caused by one of three things: social class inequality, the blaming of Jews for Christ's death, or conflict between the Muslim world and the Christian world. Needless to say, great strides have been made since the 1400s. The one thing I took out of that class (taught by Rudi Lindner, a Jewish professor of Islamic studies) is this: People of Islam are no different than those of other religons. They believe in one God, as do Christians. Also, it wasn't the Muslims who started these conflicts (a little thing called the Crusades). There are 1.8 billion Muslims. A quarter of the World. We can either blame them for all our problems, continue to think that they are some kind of lower class. Or, we can continue to make strides in the right direction. Just because someone is Muslim doesn't make them a terrorist, doesn't make them loyal to any terrorist faction. It is their religon. In America, a country I'm so proud to be a part of, we don't tolerate different religons, we accept and welcome them.
Alot of people get on Obama's wife for her statement about being proud of America. I'm proud to be an American, but I am not proud of the actions of many Americans. I'm not proud that Americans still teach hate and don't tolerate those who are different. And I'm certainly not proud of the past 6 years of our government.
If John McCain keeps us in Iraq, keeps spending billions upon billions in that country, then I have no doubts that the US will fail to be the most powerful country in the world. We will fail to have a strong middle class. That money could have helped to prevent a recession. Instead, we will likely see China, a Communist country, grow to unimaginable power while we struggle to find jobs. There's so much ridiculously at stake with this election. We need to worry about our problems first, not the middle east's.