University of Oklahoma Professor exercises his first amendment right to pen nonsense

A friend brought to my attention this lovely article by University of Oklahoma professor David Deming. Deming manages the impressive task of stating that Obama is Muslim, a Black Nationalist Christian, and implying that he's a Stalinist all in two paragraphs:

When Obama refers to “my Muslim faith,” the verbal gaffe resonates as a Freudian slip because of Obama’s thinly veiled hatred for this country’s unique culture and institutions. Obama sat for 20 years in a church where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr preached “goddamn America.” He only resigned from the congregation when it became politically expedient to do so. When earlier this year, Michelle Obama said “for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” can we conclude that her husband disagrees? Is it not remarkable that Michelle Obama can be so small-minded as to find nothing in the history of the United States that merits her admiration but the personal success of her husband?

What is Barack Obama for? His campaign motto is “change.” But even a 6-year-old child understands that “change” can be either good or bad. Lacking specifics, the invocation of “change” as policy is completely empty. As we witness Obama’s minions mindlessly endorse the meaningless maxim of “change,” it only can call to mind the barnyard animals in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” chanting “four legs good, two legs bad!”

Deming, a Geophysicist, is no stranger to controversy. A letter to the editor he wrote in 2000 resulted in 25 sexual harassment complaints at U of O, and several years ago was embroiled in a lawsuit against the University to regain his position after he “went on the record as having no confidence in the leadership of [the School of Geology and Geosciences.”

Not to rely on ad hominem attacks, I believe (like any good post-structuralist) that the seeds of destruction for Deming's argument lie in his text, and here they are- would you believe anything from anyone who wrote this of Sarah Palin?:

Unassisted by affirmative action, Palin has risen to national prominence on the basis of her character, intelligence and natural gifts.