How does the administration even manage to screw up their own propaganda? The obvious gamble here was to depict Obama as a man who is willing to do anything to get back the noble American soldier. How’s that going to work when straight out the gate everybody knows the freak is a traitor?
The AFPAK soldiers were not supposed to speak up.
And my guess is that when his dad spoke Arabic and said a prayer to Allah, Obama smiled caused he realized he just got punked.