In Defense of Obama

People have plenty of good things to say about Barack Obama, and plenty of bad things too. I'm no fan of his, but some things being said about him are obviously ridiculous to reasonable people. I wonder if these people realize they're only making fools of themselves, on both sides of the argument.
First you have what I can only describe as total right wing nut-jobs grasping at anything possible in his background to discredit him. Then you have most of the media and Democrats defending everything he does. When did opinion become news?

He's a "secret Muslim" attempting to take over America for Al-Qaeda, or whatever. How ridiculous is that? There are over 500 people in Congress to override anything that dastardly he would try to do. And if he was a Muslim, so what? Not all Muslims are extremists, just like not all people who are against abortion bomb abortion clinics. what happened to religious freedom? Let's ask Mitt Romney. This is a two-edged sword that not only is stupid, but makes America look anti-Muslim instead of anti-Terrorism. This "secret Muslimness" is conveniently forgotten when Jeremiah Wright says something stupid, then he obviously is a follower of this Christian(?) idiot. Maybe he's secretly a Muslim too.

He lacks experience. Okay, this is probably true enough and I hate to beat a dead horse here, but both sides keep bringing it up, only when it's convenient for them. The Democrats don't really have a response, except to attack Palin. I think that makes them look stupid, don't they realize they are comparing the Senior member of their ticket to the Junior member of the other one? This tactic has obviously backfired for both sides.

He's black. I know, that's not a criticism, but unfortunately some people look at it that way. Most of these people won't publicly admit it, but you better believe they still exist. Anyway, people ignore his whiteness. And I'm not saying "he's not black enough" whatever that could possibly mean. I'm saying his mother was actually white.

He's not black enough. I don't even know what this means. If they're saying his mother is white so he's not 100% black, then I understand, but I don't think that's what people mean, and it would be stupid if that's what they meant.