One is contemptible, fanatical vermin responsible for untold human suffering.

The other is an Islamic terrorist group.

I see that Al-Qaida has figured out how to be really offensive to Americans — just plagiarize our old palRalph Nader.

But his choice, basically, is whether he’s going to be Uncle Sam for the people of this country, or Uncle Tom for the giant corporations.

Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house negroes.”

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