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Dear Leader ZerO has absolutely no perception of reality. On June 1st, 2009, he gave an interview to Laura Haim. He claimed the number of Muslims in America made it one of  "the largest Muslim countries in the world". He has no clue. The real world does not even come close to his delusional perception of it.

The full interview is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4quEKZEoYo

Transcript at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Transcript-of-the-Interview-of-the-President-by-Laura-Haim-Canal-Plus-6-1-09/

From the interview:

Q    I'm sure they will appreciate that, sir.  Thank you so much for them.

Tomorrow we're leaving for the Middle East.  It's going to be your first trip there.  What do you want to achieve with this trip?

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, we're going to be traveling to Saudi Arabia; I'll be having discussions with King Abdullah.  And then we'll travel to Cairo, in which I am delivering on a promise I made during the campaign to provide a framework, a speech of how I think we can remake relations between the United States and countries in the Muslim world.

Now, I think it's very important to understand that one speech is not going to solve all the problems in the Middle East.  And so I think expectations should be somewhat modest.

What I want to do is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world understands more effectively how the United States but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy, to discuss the framework for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran, and also how we view the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Now, the flip side is I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.  And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.  And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples.

Emphasis mine.

This is just another illustration that Dear Leader ZerO lives in his own delusional narcissistic world of his own definition where the facts are twisted to make himself and what he does all important. He is making a trip to the Middle East to visit Muslim Nations and is making his trip seem all the more important by making up his own perception of the world.

The reality is that there are 60 nations with significant Muslim populations (around 2 million or more). America doesn't rank in the top 10, or 20, or even the top half. America ranks... 52, 8 from the bottom. To be in the top 10, you need at least 32 million Muslims. America has 2,350,000, just over 2 million. Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation has over 207 million Muslims.

The only reason I can see for his delusions and incorrect assumptions about America comes from his 1995 literary masterpiece "Dreams of my Father". Wherein he wrote:

"I tried drugs enthusiastically", "if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the worlds ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and cheap moralism"

His perception of the world was built during a drug induced haze. After years of education, he is still delusional.

Dear Leader ZerO doesn't even have a clue who really lives in America and how many there are of the various diverse peoples that makes up our Great Nation. He lives in his own world of drug induced delusions about America, and about what America needs and wants.

Video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4TqoC2iU4

A Matter of Honor - A Matter of Disgrace

Debra J.M. Smith - Informing Christians

Architects, Paul Murdoch and Byrd Woltz designed the memorial with the shape of a crescent. Would they design a memorial for an attack in a predominately Muslim nation in the shape of a cross?If you were to stand right between the tips of the crescent and face into the center of the crescent, you would be facing North East, which from the crash-site is the direction to Mecca. That is the Muslim direction for prayer, so if you are a Muslim, this site should make you quite happy. -- There is audio available for this article: Click Here.

ONLY IN NEW YORK CITY.

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People, I live about 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan. It's just a Metro North train ride away. I used to work in the city and would commute there on a daily basis. Before that I would always commute there to see two of my old friends who lived there. Now, one old friend is gone to California and the other has moved 1 hour and 10 minutes north.

I have no other reason to go to Manhattan ever again and couldn't be farther from it, especially around this time. Watch the whole video if you haven't already and you'll hear what I'm saying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI

Only in New York City. But this is not the real New York.

I've often said, whether on my show or in blogs that. only in a SICK place like Manhattan, you could be a convicted rapist, an illegal immigrant who drove drunk and wiped out an entire family of six or even a pedophile, once you tell a tolerant liberal that you're a Republican/conservative you will then find out how INTOLERANT ILL-liberal liberals can be.

The people in this video are the same kind of people who allowed a Muslim anti-American rally in 2006, where they burned flags and chanted "Death To America" right on the same city streets.

Did we hear any jeers or boos in that video? Nooooooooo!

Only in New York City.

Don't get me wrong. I love the city. I love the beauty of it. I love the energy of it. I love Central Park, Bryant Park, the museums, the comedy clubs, the food, the Empire State Building, Brooklyn Bridge and Times Square. I love BBQ ribs at Brother Jimmy's and cheese burgers at PJ Clarke's. Trust me, there's a lot to love.

But I can't stand the people. Especially the ones who are in this video. This is not the real New York. This is not the New York where I come from.

These losers, who call themselves the intellectual elite (although you might think differently with the intelligent middle fingers that are counted in this video), DO NOT represent me as a New Yorker. These are people who elected Mayor Dinkins out of white guilt/black pride.  Dinkins, in just four short years, drove the city further into the gutter.  Then, the same ILL-liberals secretly cheered when their one bedroom condo dollar values soared under a Giuliani administration. They're the same disgusting, despicable, liberals who would call you a racist if you told them you wouldn't vote for Barack Insane Obama.

Meanwhile, these intolerant, ill-liberals remain idle and silent when faced with sexism regarding Sarah Palin. You know, it's racist that a woman at a McCain rally would call Obama an Arab (although it's still up in the air whether or not that woman was an Obama plant to set McCain off) but it's IS alright when a group of degenerates want to sport "Palin's a cunt" t-shirts at Obama's rallies. And what about the comments from Obama himself, who claims McCain is "out of touch" and "can't use a computer" implying that he's old?

I ask you intolerant, ill-liberal liberals, is John McCain a victim of AGEISM? Or is that ISM above your pay-grade???

I'll say this again, the fact that McCain can't use a computer because his shoulders were broken by the Vietcong is a plus. Because it will be one less politician in Washington who won't be on Craigslist looking for whores.

Only in New York City.

Not my city. Not the New York that I know.

Mr.L

This is remarkably bad...

Two Muslim women at Barack Obama's rally in Detroit Monday were barred from sitting behind the podium by campaign volunteers seeking to prevent the women's headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate.

The Obama campaign has apologized to the women, which was the right thing to do, and it's likely this story will elicit relatively little further attention.   This will be useful to remember when the press or the Left tries to indict the McCain campaign for mistakes, poor wording or activity outside their control. 

But there is a larger problem here that hasn't really been addressed in much detail so far. 

It is one thing for the Obama campaign to criticize the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors - he is not a Muslim, and there is no excuse for making that claim - but what does it mean when Obama says these claims that he is Muslim as not just false, but a smear? (e.g., fightthesmears.com)

In 2006, when he was asked if he was Jewish, George Allen (for whom I worked) said the questioner was "making aspersions."   Naturally, Lefties were outraged.  Media Matters harangued the media for not pressing Allen on why he called questions about Jewishness an "aspersion".

How is Barack Obama's use of the word "smear" different than this?  To paraphrase progressive blogger Lindsay Beyerstein, "Why the defensiveness? It's as if he thinks being [Muslim] is a very bad thing." 

False rumors about Obama deserve bipartisan denunciation.  But perhaps the media should begin asking Barack Obama why he thinks Muslim identity is a 'smear'.

UPDATE: Marc Ambinder says the Obama campaign's tightrope between denying the allegations and being sensitive to Muslims "snapped today".   Perhaps so, if you discount calling being a Muslim a "smear".  He also points out that this gaffe is "as egregious as anything McCain's advance team has ever done".

UPDATE II: Doug Mataconis, of Below the Beltway, makes a good argument that "smear" is not as insulting a term as I suggested.  His points are reasonable and I'd encourage you to read and consider them.