Hey, Kossacks. My first diary. Let's see if I can get banned right out of the gate. Now, don't get me wrong, that is neither my intent nor my desire. It's just one of those topics.

I've been following alot of the "Obama is a Muslim" discussions with great interest. Last summer, during a friendly discussion with my neighbor Lefty (who has never met a Republican he liked), I confidently asserted that there was no way that this country was ready to elect a woman or someone named Barack Hussein Obama. He was certain I was wrong. I told him that he severly underestimates the obtuseness of a great portion of this country. There just wasn't any way that it "would play in Peoria".