"My Muslim Faith"

Guess what? Barack Obama's human.

On "This Week With George Stephanopolous" he made a mistake. Not a big mistake, more of a verbal slip, but it's one that the right-wing bloggers are already obsessing about, trying to make it into a big mistake -- and it's one that we're going to be hearing a lot about in the next few days.

I guarantee that Rush Limbaugh and the boys at Fox News are going to be jumping on this one like a horny football player on a slutty cheerleader.

What did he say?

He said that John McCain had not attacked "my Muslim faith."

Ooooops!

Was it just bad phrasing? Or was it a genuine Freudian slip? I believe it was the former, the right-wing bloggers are already claiming that it's the latter.

What he meant to say is pretty obvious -- that McCain has not so far been one of those people falsely accusing him of being a Muslim. It just came out wrong. I suppose he could have used an expression like "my alleged Muslim faith" or "my so-called Muslim faith" but that would have been seen as being demeaning to Islam.

I see this hitting the mainstream media by Tuesday at the latest. Did Obama make a gaffe -- which is Washington is defined as the moment when a politician accidentally tells the truth?

After all, the right-wing has nothing better to talk about. They can't run on the record of the past eight years (and Sarah Palin on ice skates can't run away from it fast enough), so all they can do is mock Obama for being "community organizer" (although if you think about it, as one poster on the ABC News board put it, so was Jesus Christ) and imply that he's some kind of a scary Muslim.

Will it work? The last 28 years of American history would seem to indicate that we would be distinctly foolish to assume that it won't.