Some sources have reported that Presidential candidate Barack Obama is a 32nd degree "Prince Hall" Mason, which would be interesting if true. He certainly has the support of the Lodge, as documented on his campaign website.

Masonic apologists like to boast that several Presidents have been high-ranking Lodge members. Like Franklin Roosevelt, the New York blueblood and darling of Wall Street, who seized the people's gold, devalued the currency, and expanded the Federal Government with dozens of socialist programs before dragging the U.S. into World War Two.

Then there was his successor, Grand Master Harry Truman who, along with Secretary of War Henry Stimson (of Skull and Bones), dropped the A-bombs on Japan two months after the U.N. Organizing Conference -- a rather extreme way to lead people to "the Light".

And don't forget Gerald Ford who, along with Brother J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and Brother Earl Warren of the Supreme Court, were the architects of the Warren Commission coverup of the JFK assassination plot and the official myth of the "lone nut" gunman and the "magic bullet" theory.