Is It Even Relevant?

Can't sleep so I thought I would write.  Looking over my Facebook feed my "Right Wing" friends are all making comments about a quote attributed to the President.  Apparently he made the comment that he wasn't the same young Muslim Socialist he used to be.  The left is basically saying "He was joking..Duh".  The right for some reason seems to think that "no..he has finally admitted it and we were right all this time".  My thought is - is it even relevant?

Let's take it one assertion at a time - Obama is Muslim.  He said he isn't, no "records" show he is but the right believes it.  But so what!  One of the founding rights of the United States is Freedom of Religion.  I am not a scholar on this particular topic but I do not remember reading anything that said you could not be a Muslim and the President.  And hey, I get it - 12 years ago Muslim terrorists attacked the United States.  But I think the key word in that statement isn't Muslim...it's terrorists!  To lump all of the billions of Muslims into one group because of the actions of a minority would be the same as saying all Catholics are child molesters and all Christians are the same as the wackos from that church in Kansas that stage protests at the funerals of soldiers.  One group inside your religion should not define your religion.

Second assertion, Obama is a Socialist.  Once again, there is no proof to this except that the right continues to harp on it.  And again I say, so what.  I would argue that most Democrats believe at least a little bit in the tenets of Socialism.  Obama seems to get the claim applied mostly, as far as I can tell, because of his health care initiative.  Similar systems are in place around the world, and yet none of those governments are called Socialist.  In fact, the most "Socialist" thing I have seen in the past 10 years was the government subsidies and bailout of the banking and auto industry that was started under Bush.  That had all the earmarks of "state controlled business".