Frank_Gaffney.jpgA few years ago on Air America, Al Franken had a pretty smart riff about what conservatives do when they get caught, as he put it, "taking a dump in the middle of the room."

It goes like this: some wingnut says or writes something offensive. People castigate them for it — "Hey, you just took a big dump in the middle of the room!" Then the wingnut, rather than explain himself or apologize, just kicks up a lot of dust around the dump and says, "No, I didn’t."

Frank Gaffney, who took a dump in the middle of the room last week, is the latest example of this phenomenon.

Let me be clear. The nature and religious context of Mr. Obama’s relationship with his Creator is, as far as I am concerned, the man’s own business. Religious tests for holding public office in this country went out around the time of the Salem witch trials, and I don’t want them to come back.

Uh-huh. Then why did you write this, Frank?

With Mr. Obama’s unbelievably ballyhooed address in Cairo Thursday to what he calls "the Muslim world" (hereafter known as "the Speech"), there is mounting evidence that the president not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself. Consider the following indicators:

• Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to "the Holy Koran." Non-Muslims — even pandering ones — generally don’t use that Islamic formulation.

• Mr. Obama established his firsthand knowledge of Islam (albeit without mentioning his reported upbringing in the faith) with the statement, "I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed." Again, "revealed" is a depiction Muslims use to reflect their conviction that the Koran is the word of God, as dictated to Muhammad.

• Then the president made a statement no believing Christian — certainly not one versed, as he professes to be, in the ways of Islam — would ever make. In the context of what he euphemistically called the "situation between Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs," Mr. Obama said he looked forward to the day ". . . when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) joined in prayer."

Gaffney’s a typical neocon. He talks tough, but when it comes right down to it, he pees his panties and runs home to mommy.

Pathetic little weasel.