Nothing dumb about it. It’s deliberate. After all, he is the Mahdi, isn’t he?
That’s what he was hinting at when he was doing the Messiah bit. That wasn’t any Christian Messiah he was talking about. Just ask Louis Farrakhan, or the Iranian clerics who have spoken about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-_qUHe3HU
You are right!!! Take a look at the following very DISTURBING video:
Barack Hussein Obama & Khalid Al-Mansour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81P8T4UX40