Tell me I am wrong but evidence seems to show extremists and fundamentalists in every religion are bigots.
Obama is Christian.
Polycarp if you have doubts about that find help, better still read the book you claim is your one to live by.
Clinton had a head job?
Tell me what former leader of America did not play up in office.
Obama is full of hope for us all, he will win, just hope the bigots and Fundy's do not kill him.

Polycarp,
If my memory serves me there is a Muslim in the US congress. One wonders if, as I suspect it's that he's not White is the real issue and the Muslim bit is a straw man.

“You can lead a koala to water but you can’t make it drink”. Those who are bigoted will continue to be so and will continually change their criteria rather than admit their views are base on emotion and fear rather than facts.
BTW koalas very occasionally drink.

Runner
I think your views are coloured by your concept of faith. The five reasons you give are unsustainable.
Keep in mind The US isn’t two discrete groups and contrary to common misconception fundamentalist Christians are as cohesive and as numerous as believed. Many find the idea of a woman in the white house is marginally more acceptable than a man of colour. One of their biggest fears was that republican rump may not even vote. So they promoted Palin to the ticket was to placate a small minority of religious zealots and attract disaffected Clinton supporters.

The GOP leadership is more concerned about winning.

Palin as a candidate was like a “polywaffle” appealing on the outside but a gooey white mess inside.
She proved to not have the public skills required as a potential Prez.
She was neither able to converse with the other moms of daytime TV or sound knowledgeable and coherent on issues facing the US. She had to be quarantined (protected) from her own country’s press. Imagine if she had to negotiate with real hostile parties? Like the congress etc.
Then there’s the unseemly mess with her heavying the police dept to sack her ex brother in law! To do that or even leaving herself potentially vulnerable displays her lack of focus.
She may well be the salt of the earth but salt is best in small quantities she is just not ready to run America. The press were right to rubbish her candidacy

Antony Green he may be the only one who finds elections more interesting than me.
On leaving this page this morning I will get into my favorites.
News Medea from across the world.
Never far from a radio tomorrow I will be more concerned about the outcome than watching my money go around in todays Melbourne cup.
Wish however I could be as sure as I am about Obama win, its in the bag.
Strange, bizarre really, he will catch new supporters after that win, many of those who are against him will forget they ever said things we will remember.
America will remain America warts and all, but it will be a better country.
More mature and if its the landslide it should be?
Well just maybe the country can get laws up that have been stalled by big business interests.
OPINIONS we all have them on every thing, how many of us are strong enough to say I was wrong?
To hold ourselves accountable for being so very wrong?
The good the bad and the ugly tomorrow America steps up to the plate and elects a black man, from a Christian/Muslim background he is and has been all his life a CHRISTIAN.
Who dares in the name of his/her God judge the man unfairly.
How quaint, Fundy's re write their Holy books as they go along.
David judge not less you be judged.

The NAME OBAMA IS REMARKABLY CLOSE TO THE NAME OF THE MABUS AS SPOKE OF IN THE PROPHESIES OF NOSTRODAMUS AS THE BLACK MAN SITTING IN THE GREAT SEAT.
NOSTRODAMUS SPOKE OF KENEDY .
AMERICA HAS PROBLEMS NOW HOW WILL IT BE IN A YEARS TIME.

Polycarp

Thanks for the gratuitous 'information' about active opposition versus simply holding different beliefs. But why do you turn again to historic Muslim religious oppositions and not, say, Catholics versus Protestants? (That's a rhetorical question to which I require no answer of course - not that you'd ever comment on Christian wars.)

Perhaps you could offer a comment on the undermining of democratic processes by ill-intentioned 'Christian' groups in the USA - and by extension to Australia?

Whats wrong with fundamentalists Belly?
To me christian fundematalists take a simple road... and believe that everything in the Bible is the truth.
They dont have room for porn, abortion, witchcraft, bad political systems, drugs, drunkenness, idolatry...
As jesus said "we are the salt of the earth".