Are you for real or a Troll?
What makes you ask me that?
Let me give you an example of the kind of thing I want to see our side avoid. In the 2002 race for governor of Michigan, the Republican candidate, Dick Posthumus, tried to make an issue out of the fact that his opponent was born in Canada.
There were many good reasons to oppose Jennifer Granholm, but this was not one of them. He looked like an idiot (and was), and he lost.
There are many good reasons to oppose Barack Obama’s candidacy, but is the completely unsupported notion that he is secretly a Muslim really the thing we want to hang our hats on? And don’t we run the risk of looking like complete idiots if we do?