Did Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour dip his toes into birther waters?
A reporter followed up to ask Barbour for his opinion as to why so many Americans (wrongly) think Obama is a Muslim.
"I don't know why people think what they think," Barbour said. He paused and then added, "This is a president that you know less about than any other president in history."
According to Barbour, we know "plenty" about Ronald Reagan, and we know that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree (really?), although there was no word on what Barbour knows about George Bush's missing Texas Air National Guard years ... about Obama, not so much. Apparently Barbour skipped reading Obama's two autobiographies and the massive record of his public life.
But Barbour wasn't really questioning the President's birthplace because when:
Reporters asked if Barbour believes Obama was born in the United States. "As far as I know," he said. He added that, "I don't have any such question."
Of course not.
On the bright side, Barbour accepts "totally at face value" that Obama is a Christian. Whew.