Why "Obama is a Muslim" is such a powerful accusation.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

When someone says "Obama is a Muslim", there are three possible sane answers:

1) "No he isn't" - this comes across as an implicit admission that it would be a bad thing that if he were.
2) "It wouldn't matter if he were" - this comes across as an implicit admission that he is.
3) "No he wouldn't, and it wouldn't matter if he were" - this comes across as both - if we were confident he weren't, we wouldn't need to add that it wouldn't matter, and vice versa. Plus it doesn't boil down to a soundbite, and so the kind of people who care about these things will switch off.

I'm tempted to suggest "yeah, well, Duncan Hunter rides around on a broomstick and sacrifices babies to Ahrimanes in exchange for campaign contributions, and Sarah Palin dances naked at Stonehenge on Halloween" as the best possible response.