While I doubt it matters to any of the people in question, I don't especially like Louis Farrakhan's crackpot race-based view of Barack Obama:

"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better," he said. "This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

"A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," he told the crowd of mostly followers. "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."

Seriously, if we consider the context of Farrakhan's remarks, he's comparing Obama to a deity. The speech was delivered at the annual "Savior's Day" celebration, which commemorates the birth of Wallace Fard Muhammad -- a man believed by NOI members to be the incarnation of Allah, and who founded a religion based on the principle that all white men were created evil:

Fard claimed that armageddon was imminent. His doctrine maintained that black people in America had a duty to discover their origins and purpose. Out of all the nations of the Earth, diasporic Africans, particularly those in "the hells of North America," were the only nation without any knowledge of their history, no control of their present lives, and without any guidance for their future. Black people had been systematically denied knowledge of their true history by their white oppressors. Christianity was a religion of the slave owners that had been forced on enslaved or subordinated Black peoples. He claimed that Islam was the original faith of Black people prior to slavery, and that the original peoples of the world were Black. He called white people a race of devils created by a scientist named Yakub on the island of Patmos. He also claimed that Black people were divine by nature, created by Allah from the dark substance of space, and that a spacecraft was waiting to destroy all white people when the appointed time came.

Or is this a "religious" issue? I don't know, but I'm thinking it might be a good time for Obama to set the record straight, and say a few words on the subject of the NOI generally.

He might at least make it clear that is running for president, not Savior. (And certainly not Allah in human form.)

As to what might constitute an equivalent endorsement for Hillary Clinton, I don't know, but I suspect that if someone as kooky as Farrakhan crawled out of the woodwork and endorsed her, she'd speak up -- her status as a blue-eyed she-devil notwithstanding.

But as I say, it makes no difference what I think, because according to the rules of identity politics, blue-eyed devils are not allowed to speak about such matters.

Things are getting pretty wacky out there.

How long must we wait for the mother ship?

When will the appointed time come?