An important theme of US elite propaganda - going back in fact to the 18th century - is the inculcation of contempt for the unwashed majority on the part of the political class (today roughly the 20% of the population who've been to "a good college"). And the growth among the majority of the suspicion that Obama is a Muslim is a confused but accurate recognition that he's not working for them - so he must be working for someone else. Unfortunately the class language that's necessary to explain the real situation has been excluded from political discourse.
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Doug Henwood<dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> http://people-press.org/report/645/
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> Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim
> Religion, Politics and the President
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> A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a
> Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More
> than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public
> says they do not know what religion Obama follows.
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