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Obama’s Rumor-Monger

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Meet the man who called him a Muslim.

What do you need to know about Andy Martin, the man who, in 2004, started the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim? This sentence from a New York Times profile pretty much says it all: "He is a law school graduate, but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of 'moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.'" Martin has run for public office including president, and one campaign set out "to exterminate Jew power." This is clearly a man with little shame, and yet even Martin, who says he now accepts Obama's Christianity, calls others' circulation of the Islam meme "scary."

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