[Winged Hussar]

This could cost Obama the election, so please circulate as widely as possible

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2152821/Muslim-Barack-Obama-fans-told-to-hide-from-television-cameras.html "Barack Obama's campaign has been forced to apologise to two Muslim women barred from sitting behind him at a public event."

Suppose the following took place. Someone says that a white candidate had a Negro great-grandparent, and the candidate puts up a "Fight the Smears" page that says: "SMEAR: So-and-so is part Negro."

Another viewpoint: my religious identity is Jewish. Suppose I'm running for office, and someone says I am really a Christian. What is the difference between the following statements?

(1) "Winged Hussar is not a Christian even though he acknowledges Christianity as a positive force for guiding human behavior."

(2) "SMEAR: Winged Hussar is a Christian."

Obviously, #2 says there is something wrong with being a Christian because the allegation is a "smear." The line "SMEAR: So-and-so is part Negro" similarly implies that there is something wrong with being a Negro. Obama's own Web page is therefore derogatory of Muslims.

Note that Obama did not say "SMEAR: Obama is an Islamic supremacist," which would indeed be a smear. He said "SMEAR: Obama is a Muslim."

"Muslim Barack Obama fans told to hide from television cameras"-- suppose it was "Negro McCain fans told to hide from television cameras," or "Jewish Lieberman fans with yarmulkes told to hide from television cameras."

"Muslims barred from picture at Obama event"--right, Obama tosses Muslim-Americans under the bus the way Theodore Bilbo would have tossed African-Americans under the bus a hundred years ago.

It won't cost Obama any votes if it stays at Free Republic, so please take it to your blog, Web site, friends, and local newspapers.

[wilco200]

This is what happens when you play identity politics.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave.

[Mamzelle]

re: Why is the presidential candidate who claims to be religiously inclusive is treating the word "Muslim" as an insult?)))

LOL

[HankArcher]

“Muslims Against Sharia”

Large group I am sure. 2? 3? members

[Jeff Head]

IMHO, Obama and his handelers doth protest too loudly.

But irrespective of his religious affilitions, Obama is an abject marxists and militant anti-American.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[McGruff]

You going down you half an infidel!

[hosepipe]

[ other viewpoint: my religious identity is Jewish. Suppose I'm running for office, and someone says I am really a Christian. ]

ALL the first christians WERE Jews..
After that for 2000 years, many christians continued to be Jews..
Currently many Jews ARE christians..

Jesus was, is and will continue to be A JEW..

[lilylangtree]

Yet, Osama Hussein meets with islamic agents of terrorism.

[weegee]

SMEAR: Obama has white blood cells in his veins. < /s >

[ßuddaßudd]

But he could be, right?

[Friendofgeorge]

Obama is a disgusting human being and so is his wife. What a couple of phony`s!!!!

Obama and wife are no more Christian than Osama Bin Laden.

His support for abortion disqualifies him without looking any further. If you chose to look a little further, it only gets worse! He is not a Christian!!!

[Milligan]

Obama is a mixed up person.
He has a idenity problem.
He never recovered.

That’s why he is hiding his family background. He is trying to be picture perfect for the American voters. He wants the public to think he is the next Messiah. People better wake up before they vote for someone who is insecure and gets the most powerful position in the world....POTUS.

[firewalk]

obamba doesn’t like muslims?

[Contra]

Dukakis called Dan Quayle “J. Danforth Quayle” throughout the debates, trying to paint Quayle as an elitest with a name like that. George Bush (the elder) rightly called him on this. But what if McCain or his veep in the debates called Obama “B. Hussein Obama?” Of course the point is, why would you want to run from your heritage instead of embracing it and being proud of it? Liberals don’t want to run as liberals (unless they’re from San Francisco) and running as a muslim or black is also apparently not in style when you still have to win over white America to win the general election. Obama is muslim and black (he was born a muslim and when born a muslim you are always a muslim and he is black, although soon you will see him playing up his “whiteness” too). He will not be able to hide his muslim heirtage anymore than he can hide his blackness and win or lose he should embrace it, not hide it. This shows a real weakness in this clown and I hope the American people (or should I say enough of the American people) are smart enough to see it.

[Contra]

Dukakis called Dan Quayle “J. Danforth Quayle” throughout the debates, trying to paint Quayle as an elitest with a name like that. George Bush (the elder) rightly called him on this. But what if McCain or his veep in the debates called Obama “B. Hussein Obama?” Of course the point is, why would you want to run from your heritage instead of embracing it and being proud of it? Liberals don’t want to run as liberals (unless they’re from San Francisco) and running as a muslim or black is also apparently not in style when you still have to win over white America to win the general election. Obama is muslim and black (he was born a muslim and when born a muslim you are always a muslim and he is black, although soon you will see him playing up his “whiteness” too). He will not be able to hide his muslim heirtage anymore than he can hide his blackness and win or lose he should embrace it, not hide it. This shows a real weakness in this clown and I hope the American people (or should I say enough of the American people) are smart enough to see it.