his own website
http://www.barackobama.com/2007/03/06/obama_man_of_the_world.php
‘’I was a little Jakarta street kid,’’ he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his
elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘’one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’’
Me? I prefer the smell of napalm in the morning. The smell of victory.
I was speaking of the specific accusation against Rush.