Why won't any Republicans condemn the "Obama is a Muslim" myth?
Who's winning, who's losing, and why. Aug. 23 2010 8:23 PM  Let
It Lie   President Obama. Click image to expand. President
Obama at the Ramadan dinner hosted by the White House  With so
much traffic on the low road in American politics, you'd imagine
a politician or two might take the high road simply to beat the
congestion. Sunday on Meet the Press, Mitch McConnell was asked
about the Pew poll that showed 31 percent of Republicans believe
Obama is a Muslim. He said, "The president says he's a
Christian. I take him at his word. I don't think that's in
dispute." If you only paid attention to his first two sentences,
as some pundits did, you might think McConnell was trying to
keep doubt alive by suggesting the matter was one of debate. If
you were patient enough to listen to the last sentence, you
heard him say that the matter is not one of debate at all.  John
Dickerson John Dickerson   If McConnell wasn't trying to stir
the pot, he also wasn't