Apparently, palin' around with a washed-up '60s radical like Bill Ayers isn't enough to get Barack Obama admitted to the International League of Extraordinary Terrorists. If I didn't know better, I'd say that al-Qaeda doesn't like our new president. Didn't they see the secret fist jab?

CAIRO,Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group's first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites Wednesday, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

Al-Zawahri also called Obama—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—"house negroes."

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."

See, this what happens when you watch too many McCain-Palin rallies on CNN International. Somewhat seriously, this also gives you an idea of why Islamic terrorists want someone like a George W. Bush or a John McCain in the White House, and not a Barack Obama. Their main job is to win the hearts and minds of impressionable young Muslims around the globe, and we all know that Bush was a boon to terrorist recruitment.

The Obama presidency scares them. Ironic, huh?