This has been a gripe of mine for quite some time, most recently fed by the urban myth that Obama is Muslim, but it first began post-9/11. We have become a nation that has accepted the popular view that:

I'm a skeptic. I come by it naturally. So it was no surprise (to me) when I interviewed for this job that the skeptic in me jumped out of her chair and questioned the sanity of working in an enviroment