Muslim born Barack Hussein Obama may or may not be part of an Islamist cell, but his presidency will destroy America either way. Whether he did it because he was an Islamist or a Socialist will hardly matter to our children. Lots of nice people believe that it is simply not possible for a presidential candidate to be a stealth Islamist. Why is it impossible?

It took more than five years of planning and meticulous execution to carry out the attacks of 9/11. The anticipated next attack on American soil has so far not materialized. Why is it not possible that planning for the second attack began ten years before the first attack was conceived? Twenty years ago Obama was recruited by Antoin “Tony” Rezko into what appears to be a Saudi financed militant Islamist network.

Congressman Steven King, R-Iawa, thinks that electing Hussein to the position of Commander in Chief of the US armed forces could be dangerous.

U.S. Rep. Steve King on Friday announced his bid for a fourth term in Congress — and he raised some eyebrows with comments about National Security under a potential Barack Obama administration.

King held major press events in Sioux City and Council Bluffs as part of his announcement tour. He met with local reporters during stops in Spencer and a handful of other cites in his district, which covers the western third of Iowa.

It was during a stop at the KICD studios in north Spencer that he also talked about the presidential campaign and his decision not to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Tom Harkin. King said he would support presumptive GOP nominee John McCain in part because of alternatives coming from the Democratic Party.

“I don’t want to disparage anyone because of their race, their ethnicity, their name – whatever their religion their father might have been,” he said. “I’ll just say this: When you think about the option of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States — I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam?”

He continued: “I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”

King thinks radical Islamists will say the United States has capitulated because the Obama administration would be pulling troops out of any conflict associated with al-Qaida.

“Additionally, his middle name (Hussein) does matter,” King said. “It matters because they read a meaning into that in the rest of the world. That has a special meaning to them. They will be dancing in the streets because of his middle name. They will be dancing in the streets because of who his father was and because of his posture that says: Pull out of the Middle East and pull out of this conflict.”

He continued: “There are implications that have to do with who he is and the position that he’s taken. If he were strong on national defense and said ‘I’m going to go over there and we’re going to fight and we’re going to win, we’ll come home with a victory,’ that’s different. But that’s not what he said. They will be dancing in the streets if he’s elected president. That has a chilling aspect on how difficult it will be to ever win this Global War on Terror.”

ABC News now puts “Hussein” bweteen scare quotes.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaking to a local Iowa radio station, said that terrorists would dance in the streets if Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is elected president — precisely because of not only Obama’s position on withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but because Obama’s middle name is “Hussein,” his father’s Muslim roots, and his appearance — or “optics,” as King put it.

Not surprisingly, spokesmen for both Obama and McCain agree that opining about Muslim born Barack Hussein Obama’s relationships with Islamists is a thought crime.

UPDATE: Obama spox Bill Burton: “These comments have no place in our politics, and we hope Senator McCain will repudiate them like he has previous offensive comments from his supporters.”

McCain spox Jill Hazelbaker: “Our position on this is very clear. We are against the kind of politics that divide and degrade people in the process.”