How can such a slanderous hit piece make it on CBS? How can Hillary Clinton imply that Barack Obama may be a muslim, but she takes him at his word that he is not? To paraphrase Patrick Moynihan, this is defining despicability downward!
60 Minutes did a typically shiity piece on the election, focused on Ohio. It was mostly a look at the impact of lost jobs on blue collar voters there. Toward the end (it was a very short piece) one worker stated that he had difficulty with Obama not respecting the Bible and not knowing the National Anthenm and being a Muslim. The man who stated this was nonetheless leaning toward voting for Obama.
Croft corrected him properly. Then he cuts to interview footage with Obama in which he clearly states that he is a Christian who has worshipped at the same church for twenty years. He also says that the e-mail campaign is not only offensive to him but to Muslims. Then we get an unnecessary shot of Obama in Somali dress.
Following this Mr. Croft interviews Hillary who says, "I take him at his word that he's not a Muslim". Pressed by Croft, she says she has sympathy because she has been the victim of so many false rumors, but she refuses to state unequivicably that Senator Obama is not a Muslim. It was pretty obvious that she wasn't looking to vouch for Senator Obama's Christianity - in fact it was obvious that she was happy to let such slanders spread.
I wonder how much she and her campaign had to do with promulgsating them in the first place! I have never suspected this before, but her performance tonight raised some very disturbing questions. How low will she go? I think we are finding out as her campaign implodes.