June 28th 2008
Witch Hunt For “Obama’s A Muslim” E-Mailer
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That’s the subject line of an email received by Institute for Advanced Study scholar Danielle Allen - and, boy, did she end up looking into it.
Allen’s field of study is the machinery of politics and her candidate is Barack Obama, so when she received this email claiming Obama is hiding his Muslim roots and could be Islam’s Manchurian Candidate, she decided to dig. After all, her job required nothing more of her than that she think - no classes to teach, no papers to publish.
The whole deal is laid out in a four-clicker from WaPo today, and it’s a marginally interesting read from an Internet sleuthing angle … and a raucous read from a freedom of speech point of view and definitely from blind political bias point of view.
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Tags: Danielle Allen, Freedom of Speech, Obama, Washington Post
Sure, Gates is staying on as Defense Sec, and that’s a very good thing in these tumultuous times. But good leaders require and depend on good deputies, and Gates’ deputies apparently are not too keen on working with the Obama team, or visa versa.