For the last year, and especially during the final months of the US presidential elections when the McCain campaign started to get desperate, Obama was being attacked by "accusing" him of being Arab or Muslim (which is equivalent to saying terrorist these days). One can understand such attacks when they come from racists and ignorant people; however, these attacks were coming from McCain, his partner Sarah Palin, higher ups in the campaign and campaign surrogates. When an elderly women stood up during a McCain townhall meeting and said she did not trust Obama because he was Arab, McCain took the microphone back and said "No maam, he is not, he is not." He stopped there as if being an Arab were a crime in itself. What is even more hurtful to Muslim and Arab Americans, is that no one (from the Obama campaign, the mainstream media and others) stood to say something about the injustice of equating being an Arab or a Muslim to being a crime in itself… until finally one person, a person who has done more than his fair share in causing the Iraqi holocaust, finally spoke up. He was the least expected to say it but he did. That person was Colin Powell. The conservative nutcases jumped on his endorsement of Obama as being racially-motivated. They forgot that it could be the guilt he must be feeling after giving false testimony on Iraq’s virtual WMDs. . See the video here:
