My ears hurt

By Megan McArdle
Barack Obama just actually explained that he is not a muslim. That he goes to church. That he wasn't schooled in a Madrassah. That he rejects Lewis Farrakhan's weird version of anti-semitic race-based politics. That he knows nothing about the Watergate break-ins . . . sorry, wrong scandal. I am ashamed to live in a country where this was actually a question in the debate.

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