Barack Hussein Obama: US "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world"

Barack Hussein Obama: US "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world" :: Toby Harnden

It is important to note that "if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world".

So says President Barack Obama. Or I should say: Barack Hussein Obama.

That's right: Barack Hussein Obama. Say it proud. Say it out loud. The middle moniker that dared not speak its name during the election campaign is now front and centre of the US president's attempt to woo the Muslim world...

Amazing.  And to think, if George W. Bush had said this, the mainstream media would have been happy to point out that he was grossly incorrect.

In updates to the story above, you can find out that a reputable survey by Pew puts the number of Muslims in the US at 1.8 million. This would make it the 48th biggest Muslim country, behind:

Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, China, Ethiopia, Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Tanzania, Syria, Malaysia, Niger, Senegal, Ghana, Tunisia, Somalia, Guinea, Kenya, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Tajikistan, France, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Germany, Kuwait, Oman, Eritrea, Lebanon and Serbia and Montenegro

Obama Lifts Ban on Lobbyists! Back to Business as Usual

Obama Lifts Ban on Lobbyists! Back to Business as Usual | NewsBusters.org

Roll Call is reporting that during the typical Friday afternoon document dump -- a practice used to hide actions that might prove somewhat embarrassing to the White House -- the administration quietly announced that some of the former restrictions on lobbying ballyhooed about during the late campaign have been lifted. And now, we have to wonder: will the media notice this sudden change? I mean, a whole day has gone by and so far only Roll Call has mentioned it.

In any case, let special interests ring, baby!