Many conservative internet blogs and Fox News picked up a story provied on the website of Insight Magazine. The story contended that Barack Obama had been educated at a radical Muslim madrassa in Jakarta, Indonesia.
CNN and the Associated Press went to the school and found that it is a secular (non-religious) public school and has been since the late 1960's. Obama did attend school there from the age of 6 untl age ten when he returned to the US to live with his grandparents.
Obama aids swiftly responded that they would not be swift boated like the political attacks against John Kerry that questioned his status as a Vietnam hero.
The problem for Obama might not be the allegation that he attended a radical Muslim madrassa, but instead that he attended school in Jakarta at all as a student.
In the minds of Americans, will they be ready for a presidential candidate that attended school in Indonesia, especially with the instability and unrest in that country, widely popularized in the US as a hotbed for Muslim extremism.
Americans can accept Clinton going to Yale, but Obama studying in Jakarta?
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