Prometheus 6

I can't decide which side Timothy Egan is on. In Stranger in a Stadium he presents pretty much every Republican-crafted doubt about Obama in a rather sympathetic sounding framework. Many of the commenters seem to accept the framework as indicative of his message.

Me, I see things like this

Obama’s central dilemma — strange in this age of media saturation — is that so many voters still don’t know him. 

“My story is your story,” Obama tells crowds. But it’s not. 

“Do we know if he ever sold drugs?” Sean Hannity, ever eager to inject a lie that fits a stereotype in the national bloodstream, asked Jerome R. Corsi, the professional character assassin and author of “Obama Nation.”

The Texas Republican Party targets Obama with a Web video that shows pictures of an African who lives in a shack, identified as Obama’s half-brother, George Hussein Onyango Obama. Hint, hint.

And at a Washington state fair this week, the Republican booth distributed $3 bills depicting Barack Obama with Arab headgear and a camel.