Guess What, Another Obama Smear

Thanks, Jake Tapper of ABC news for getting to the bottom of the latest Obama's a Muslim smear. This is especially noble because you don't strike me as an Obama supporter. You could have ignored this story but instead you did your journalistic duty and set the record straight.
Quickly, the story goes like this. The Jerusalem Post reported, Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. As you can imagine it soon showed up on conservative and other blogs who ran with the Muslim background aspect of the report and then it found it's way to Fox news on June 16th. Brit Hume said, "Barack Obama is a practicing Christian, married in a Christian church, whose children were also baptized in that church. His campaign has emphasized his faith in part to dispel what the campaign calls an online smear campaign which contends among other things that Obama was raised a Muslim. There is even a statement on his official campaign website reading quote, Obama has never been a Muslim, and is a committed Christian. But Obama's half brother is not so sure. Malik Obama tells the Jerusalem Post that, if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background."
The problem is that Malik Obama never said that. ABC news got a hold of the audio interview and there was no such thing said. The Jerusalem Post has removed the story from it's website.
I'm not exactly sure why I feel so compelled to stick up for Barrack Obama, especially when I see him smeared. I think that part of it is that in the past it seemed that if one politician didn't come through then the next one probably possessed a similar set of skills and all the other attributes, that in my eyes, this country stands for. But now so much has changed and the stakes are much higher. At the same time the probability has never seemed lower that someone could rise through the ranks with the important qualities necessary to improve things.
I view Jon McCain as a good man but I am not sure he comprehends the degree of the problem. Regardless of which patriotic coat you wear most would agree that the U.S does not hold the same place of power it previously did. World wide envy has resulted in the closing of the gap. After all haven't we been in the business of spreading our secrets to success like democracy, human rights and capitalism so the world could catch up? Well it's happening and I don't think the old guard likes it much.
In these marketplaces things are far more efficient these days and the smart guys are the ones who know that strength means something different than it once did.