A Jan. 11 NewsBusters post by Seton Motley noted that the church Barack Obama attends claims that it is “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian” and remains “true to our native land.” Motley has decided that this means Obama isn’t a real American — and isn’t even American enough to run for president:
A commitment to Unashamed Blackness, remain true to (his) native land (that would be Africa, as per Trinity United parlance) and the embrace of the Black Value System certainly seems to stand in diametric opposition to Obama’s potential upcoming oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and his doing his very best to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Our prohibition on the Presidency for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has chosen fidelity to the United States but whose loyalties are called into question merely by the matter of his place of birth, could reasonably be extended to Obama, who had the good fortune to be born in America, but who chooses to pledge allegiance elsewhere as an article of faith.
All of these are questions worth asking. So why are the media not?
Because it doesn’t matter all that much, and because Motley is so hopelessly biased against Obama that he’s trying to throw a racial bogeyman into the presidential race? That’s our guess.