Obama: Call to prayer one of the prettiest sounds on earth...

Reading this just gives me a headache. Unfortunately, I'm afraid the good old US of A will be getting something much worse when he's elected POTUS.

I do think he will be elected.

Evidently so does Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times who in this March 2007 piece, not only takes a slap at Alabama voters but also provides us this fascinating tidbit about Obama and his study of the Koran.

In foreign policy as well, Mr. Obama would bring to the White House an important experience that most other candidates lack: he has actually lived abroad. He spent four years as a child in Indonesia and attended schools in the Indonesian language, which he still speaks.

“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

Funny. I haven't heard Obama talk about this on the stump. Have you?

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