PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, NOW A BUDDHIST?

As a senator he visited Africa, the land of his father, where his father's kinsmen honored him, dressing him up in a turban traditional attire. Some people and press in America went gun-ho that he is of an African-Kenyan anti-colonialist tribe? His name is Barack Hussein Obama, oh no, that is a full evidence of his being a Muslim and an Islamist with a secret agenda to destroy 'their America?'

President Obama while in Japan for the just concluded APEC 2010 summit, visited Kotokuin Temple of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, Japan and that must now make him also a Buddhist? Icheoku says, wait for the next few days before some media talking-heads of America will start propagating the idea that President Barack Obama is now a Buddhist. It is coming and such oddity of misinformation adds to the inexplicable naivety exhibited by many Americans which have made us all the laughing stock of the rest of the world; which marvels at the depth of misinformation or lack of any information in America.

As they most probably read such misguided statements within the next several weeks, they will be cracking their ribs laughing at our ignorance or appearance thereof that a mere ephemeral association by visit to a temple due to reverence or deference automatically now makes the president an adherent of Buddhism. Strangely enough no one called the president Jewish when he adorned the yarmulke while visiting Israel and when former CNN's Rick Sanchez complained out loud about who controls the media in America, he got fired. Icheoku admonishes Americans that President Barack Obama is not a new convert to Buddhism; he is still a Christian but merely visited a Buddhist temple just like you would Disney Land. Meanwhile welcome back home Mr. President from your ten day Asian trip and let the new war in Washington with those extremist Tea Party led Republican Congress now begin!