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Does majority not know his middle name today? He has been saying his name and dealing with allegations of being ‘Muslim’ on National TV for a while. Dems dealt with it in their debates too. So its hard to imagine Majority is oblivous to his background and history.

First of all, Obama will NOT be the nominee.

Question is that all the dirt that has already been dumped on Klintons in the past, will Republican surrogates bring it up again? Has Hillary been inoculated against all those charges? Do new facts have to be dug up, since Klintons stole furniture from White House and pardoned criminals for money?

McCain is not going to campaign negative. It would be interesting to see if GOP decides to take negative route.

From the February 28 edition of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes:

HANNITY: So, as the election season kicks into high gear, we have been repeatedly reminded of Mitt Romney’s affiliation with the Mormon church, Latter Day Saints.

However, new information has recently come to light regarding the Trinity Unity [sic] Church in Chicago. That’s the one that Senator Barack Obama calls home. Trinity Church’s congregation subscribes to a 10-point list, which they refer to as, quote, “Afrocentric.” Now, a closer look at the church’s vision has led many to call them separatist and, in some cases, even drawing comparisons to a cult.

Joining us now with more on the Trinity Union Church is columnist Erik Rush.

Erik, thank you for being with us, my friend. Appreciate it.

RUSH: Thank you — pleasure to be here.

HANNITY: Let’s — let’s look — if we look specifically at the 10 items in the church — for example: commitment to God. Basics, simple — nobody will disagree.

RUSH: Right.

HANNITY: Commitment to the black community. What if it was a commitment to the white community? Commitment to the white family versus commitment to this church, which says commitment to the black family.

RUSH: Right.

HANNITY: Your thoughts?

RUSH: Well, that — well, the first thing I did in the column that I wrote was interpolated the words black for white, and I looked at it and suddenly, I was looking at this really scary doctrine, you know. It was something that you’d see in more like a cult or an Aryan Brethren Church or something like that.

I would go beyond saying that they’re Afrocentric. They’re African-centric. They refer to themselves as an African people, and that somewhat disturbs me from the viewpoint of, well, do they consider themselves Americans? Do they consider themselves Christians? Are they worshipping Christ? Are they worshipping African things black? Well, I mean, what is it?

HANNITY: Well, let me ask you that because, beyond what we just mentioned, you know, the commitment to the black community, the black family, you know, the black work ethic they mentioned in this document, the black community, pledge allegiance to black leadership who embrace the “Black Value System.”

RUSH: Right.

HANNITY: You know, if there were a presidential candidate and they were part of a church and, as you point out in your column, you substitute the word “black” for the word “white,” there would be an outrage in this country.

RUSH: Yes. Massive

HANNITY: There would be cries of racism in this country.

RUSH: Massive.

HANNITY: Will there — will this even be a controversy in your view?

RUSH: I think that it could become something of an issue. You know, I’ve had people flaming me, but I’ve also had people writing me saying, you know, “What took you guys” — I guess it means, the media — “so long to uncover this, because they really are quite cultish, quite separatist?”

COLMES: Mr. Rush, this is Alan Colmes. I have a question. Are you questioning Barack Obama’s Christianity?

RUSH: Yeah.

COLMES: Who are you to do that?

RUSH: Anyone just the same as anyone else who can make a discernment about someone’s faith.

—K.H.