Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, with an assist from Sen. Joe Lieberman, competed in freshly minted assurances of allegiance to Israel as it embarked on a weeklong 60th birthday party.
Neoconservatives have hinted darkly that Mr. Obama, whose middle initial stands for Hussein, was born a Muslim and later grew up as a Christian. This, they say, makes him an apostate and puts him at risk of execution by an Islamist extremist.
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