2008-02-23 Star-Telegram Q&A with Barack Obama

2008-02-23 \Barack Obama http://www.star-telegram.com/761/story/491092.html Star-Telegram Q&A with Barack Obama &ldquo; [Q:] Some critics have questioned your patriotism. Is that fair game? [A:] It typically is based on this scurrilous e-mail [possibly this one?] that's been going around, which is completely false. So to the extent that it's a vicious, false rumor that's deliberately being spread over the Internet, no, that's not fair game. But nobody said politics was fair. It is important for us to dispel it ... I am not a Muslim and never have been. I've been going to the same church for the last 20 years. I was sworn in on my family Bible. And I have been pledging allegiance since I was 3. And in fact you can see it on C-SPAN sometimes. When I've opened up the Senate and am presiding over the Senate, I lead the Senate in the Pledge of Allegiance, so these are just the kinds of, I think, dirty tricks that you see crop up periodically.&rdquo;   