Demagogue

Barack Obama's potential White House candidacy has caught the attention of the Religious Right. Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the right-wing National Clergy Council, has updated and re-released a pamphlet critical of Obama entitled, "Barack Obama: Sheep or Goat?"

If Schenck's name sounds familiar to you, there's a good reason. Schenck was among the nutjobs who appeared at a 2005 news conference to defend Roy Moore, the former Alabama state supreme court justice who defied a federal order to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments from the state courthouse. Schenck praised Moore and called him a "white martyr."

The Religious Right is in trouble if this is the most credible person they can find to publish a screed attacking Obama.