Ruse #3:  The Boys Who Cried Hussein.  Obama is a Muslim, right?  Wrong.  He's the Reverend Wright's most accomplished Christian convert.  I don't think Camp Obama started the Muslim rumor which has gone viral in the right-wing blogosphere (and, absent proof, it is a rumor).  But it almost appears as if some of those posts come from Obama trolls in disguise.  I know it's a stretch, but hear me out.  What's the advantage to Obama to promote this rumor?  It's an easy one to dispel, and he can claim he's the victim of right-wing paranoid propaganda.  Note, his religion and religiosity are tied to Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ.  Keep labeling him a Muslim and he gets to use his twenty year association with a Christian church run by a racist bigot to disprove a bigoted religious slur.  The issue is not Obama's religion, it's his religious mentor's racism.  Never conflate the two. Also, he spent many years being tutored by a master in the science of victimology.  He knows how to play this one.  Don't be duped by the Obama-the-Muslim scam.  The web savvy Obamaniacs are out there trolling for suckers.  You take the bait, we all take the barb.  Duplicity, not audacity is Obama's real forte.

Ruse #4:  Prince Obama and The Magic Carpet Ride to Teheran.  What should a 47 year old neophyte Senator with NO experience in international or military affairs do when facing a John McCain in the general election.  Why, propose the most simplistic solution to all of our foreign policy problems and bluff his way through November of course.   Just talk your adversaries to death, without preconditions.  Well, that's a pipe dream right out of 1001 Nights.  How sophomoric junior Senator Obama.  Would you talk to all of our enemies?  Including Osama bin Laden?  You do know, don't you, American Presidents traditionally talk to our adversaries when there are clear gains to be made, and our conditions are met?  Personally, I doubt that's the case with the Iranians, and I doubt Obama is serious about his proposal to talk to them.  First of all, who's gonna go to Teheran?  President Obama?  Might wanna check their current list of fatwas against apostates first.  Who else?  The State Department?  Hell, they don't even want to go to Baghdad where they're surrounded 24/7 by those trigger happy killers employed by Blackwater.  Good luck talking them into going to Teheran where I'm pretty sure the Quds Force guys will want to be their guards.  Oh, by the way, we got any Farsi speakers down at Foggy Bottom?  Seems George Bush realized we had a deficit of Middle East linguists about four years after he invaded Iraq.  And finally Senator Obama, are you old enough to remember what happened in 1979?  If you wanna send diplomats from State over to Teheran, they won't be able to "talk to our enemies" when they get there because you're gonna have to bind and gag 'em first just to get them on the plane.  And in that case, all you're doing is saving the mullas the trouble.  Seriously, this is all a feint by Obama, absolving him of the customary requirement for a candidate to put forth specific and realistic solutions to our foreign policy dilemmas, so we can evaluate them before we vote.   We should call his bluff.  Make Obama promise  that if he is elected president, he will  nominate Hillarity for Secretary of State.  Come January, ship her off solo to meet the mullahs.  Dress her up in a gray pant suit with fins, and give her a beehive hairdo shaped like a warhead.  Stamp:  Greetings from the Great Satan on her forehead.  That'll get'em talkin'!