It seems that Obama supporters are actively seeking to turn MyDD into a spinoff of the  'slash and burn Hillary' DailyKos. Well, spinoffs are lame, stick with the original. This issue is a great example of an MSM/Obama blogosphere manufactured story creating somethin' out of nothin'. It is also another blatant attempt to make religion/race an issue by painting Hillary as racist. it is not Hillary's job to defend Obama's religious preference or elaborate upon it. She goes on in the interview to note that she has been the target of a number of awful smears over her years in public life. Thus, she actually defends Obama by likening the 'non-factual and fabricated' lies brought against her to the 'Muslim' issue surrounding him.

I have to say...this is a pretty dumb diary. She didn't emphatically reject the smears enough? Wow...and you wonder why they call you guys a cult

Uhh yeah I read her quote. What is amazing to me is that Obama supporters are doing their best to parse Hillary's words as best they can. She is basically stating that 'to her knowledge', Obama is not a Muslim. Now, how is this problematic? Does she have a lifelong relationship with Obama to unequivocally make a factual statement on his religious preference. Individual religious preference is private choice. Thus, we must infer one's religious preference by what that individual tells us their choice is. AGHHH!! The fact that we even have to discuss this issue is absolutely maddening. Why are we not talking about the fact that your candidate runs a campaign largely based on his rhetoric (absent of real experience) and the same campaign goes on to debunk some of its own rhetoric with a Canadian govt official. Subsequently, when called out on the issue, the campaign first denies the conversation took place. If Hillary's campaign had done this, she would already be up on a cross.

It is completely beyond me how anyone could read or listen to her comments and conclude that she's somehow saying he's Muslim.  Good God, have we all taken leave of our senses?

With the constant non-stop distortions of not only Hillary's record but of her character perpetrated by the Obama campaign do you really think Hillary is going to come out in strong defense of Obama? I mean, you folks are supposed to be highly educated. Right?

Her last sentence is clarification enough for me. I actually watched the interview. And I understand exactly why she isn't rushing to Obama's defense. He sure as hell hasn't rushed to her defense when HIS campaign has smeared her over and over again, reciting right wing attacks and all that. And wasn't it Obama himself who gloated that the Republicans had a dump truck full of attacks to dump on Hillary? So if you Obama folks think you can have it both ways. Think again.

Well Obama supporters are certainly implying that is the case, just as they implied that Hillary was somehow racist after she had made a factual observation about Lyndon B Johnson turning MLK's vision into a political reality during the civil rights era.

Hillary said about 10 different ways that she didn't believe Obama is a Muslim.  She even compared it to the baseless smears the right wing has aimed at her.  I am really disappointed by this string of ludicrous diaries which try to claim that somehow, she left the door open, in the midst of all those 10 denials.

Hillary saying she takes him at his word should be enough for anyone. I can't believe anyone would make anything out of it.

What's troubling is that Obama was born a Muslim and was a practicing Muslim at least until the age of 10. Both his birth father and stepfather were devout Muslims so Barry studied the Quran and attended prayers.

At some point, Barry Soetoro had no religion so was probably an atheist prior to converting to Christianity 20 years ago so he could marry Michelle. I'm not sure when he changed his name to his birth father's name. So many unanswered questions.

Ah, more manufactured outrage? Imagine that.

If Hillary had screamed "No, you sleazy hatemonger!" and punched the guy in the mouth, it still wouldn't have been enough for you people. We would have seen diaries titled, "HILLARY EMPLOYS VIOLENCE IN RESPONSE TO MUSLIM QUESTION: CLEARLY TRYING TO SEND THE SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE THAT OBAMA IS DEFINITELY A MUSLIM AND THAT ALL MUSLIMS ARE VIOLENT EXTREMISTS."

Ludicrous... But let's just go ahead and "burn the witch", shall we?