Conservative Canadian blogger Adam Yoshida: “I’m not saying that Obama is a concealed Moslem, a Manchurian candidate, waiting to seize the office of the Presidency in the service of sinister interests. But, on the other hand, it’s impossible to rule it out. These things are, after all, unfalsifiable by their very nature.”

And then: “It takes a strong man to overcome early bonds of affection and accept that it might be necessary, in the interests of our civilization, to kill people one was raised with – maybe even to kill one’s own relatives, if that is what is required. Does the candidate of Oprah seem likely to be the one to dispense with that sort of sentimentality?”

So the test for becoming president is whether you’d kill your own family to serve the state? Does that only apply to Obama or does Yoshida expect white candidates to show the same ruthlessness?

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