In Montana, Obama says Republicans will try to make the race about him, raising false rumors that he’s a Muslim and questioning his patriotism.

I’ll stand corrected if someone can point to one, but has any Republican official suggested Obama is a Muslim?

Wasn’t it Hillary Clinton who, asked if she believes he is Muslim, said “there’s nothing to base that on — as far as I know“? Weren’t two volunteers from her campaign dismissed because they forwarded e-mails suggesting he’s a Muslim?

UPDATE: A reader sends in Rep. Steve King as an example, and clearly he came close:

Rep. Steve King based his prediction on Obama’s pledge to pull troops out of Iraq, his Kenyan heritage and his middle name, Hussein.
“The radical Islamists, the al-Qaida … would be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in this war on terror,” King said in an interview with the Daily Reporter in Spencer.
King said his comments were not meant to demean Obama but to warn how an Obama presidency would look to the world.
“His middle name does matter,” King said. “It matters because they read a meaning into that.”

But I wonder how different King’s remark is from this one:

It’s conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, “This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he’s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,” and that’s something they’re hopeful about.

That comment, of course, comes from Barack Obama.