[Humidston]

WHOA NELLY!!!

[Michael.SF.]

Of course we can expect to be told that this is all a part of the VRWC out to destroy a poor downtrodden Black man, proving once again that all R's are racist and anti-muslim.

[AmericaUnited]

Lying birds of a feather! Kerry and Osama (whoops, I meant the other Muslim, Obana)

[no dems]

Oh my! First the Swift Boat Vets ad, then "Unfit for Duty" book and now this. The news just keeps getting better and better. I'm sure Ambassador Keyes has been informed of this eh? O'Reilly? Hannity?

I'm lovin' this.

[MattinNJ]

Keyes Ping

[JulieRNR21]

WOW....if true.....this could be the start of something BIG!

[LWalk18]

What does his fsther's past have to do with him? If your father is a Muslim, then you must be labelled a Muslim even if you practice another religion? Is Islam a race? Unless the columnist can show that Barack himself is a Muslim who is pretending to be Christian (not his father, siblings, etc.) , then this is silly. The goat herder lie is the only one that is interesting to me, sort of like Edward's "son of a mill worker" claim when his father was the manager.

[aShepard]

Ah, the smell of napalm in the evening!

2004 - the year for smash-mouth politics!

[TomGuy]

Is this story getting much play in Obama's state?

He was hailed by the lib-media as such a rising star in the party. This could surely dim his bulb.

[Unam Sanctam]

Is Obama currently a Muslim? I'm just curious.

[B Knotts]

Ouch.

Somebody's working fast.

[vpintheak]

Won't get reported by the mainstream press, they will continue to refer to him as a "rising star", and never say anything about Keyes.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Bump

[Elpasser]

HOLY CRAP!!!

[GOP_Raider]

What's this?!?! A democRAT LIED?!?!? Why, I can't believe it!!

[tuckrdout]

HE IS SUCH A DEMOCRAT!

(Democrat/liar, the words are interchangable)

[TankerKC]

...It is likely Obama's father had Mau Mau sympathies or connections, or he would not have been welcomed into the murderous inner circle of rapists, murderers, and arsonists...

Nice smear job.

[Waco]

Reckon he spent Xmas in Cambodia in 68? If not, why not?

[Wisconsin]

This is trash.

The fellow has always been open about his family's background. See for instance the Chicago Sun Times:

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So, I have a deep faith," Obama continues. "I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

"That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived."

It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God.

That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me," is heard.

Obama's theological point of view was shaped by his uniquely multicultural upbringing. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a white mother who came from Protestant Midwestern stock and a black African father who hailed from the Luo tribe of Kenya.

Obama describes his father, after whom he is named, as "agnostic." His paternal grandfather was a Muslim. His mother, he says, was a Christian.

"My mother, who I think had as much influence on my values as anybody, was not someone who wore her religion on her sleeve," he says. "We'd go to church for Easter. She wasn't a 'church lady.' "

In his 1993 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Obama describes his mother as "a lonely witness for secular humanism."

"My mother's confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn't possess, a faith that she would refuse to describe as religious; that, in fact, her experience told her was sacrilegious: a faith that rational, thoughtful people could shape their own destiny," he says in the book.

When he was 6 years old, after his parents divorced, Obama moved with his mother and her new husband -- a non-practicing Muslim -- to Indonesia, where he lived until he was 10 and attended a Roman Catholic school.

"I went to a Catholic school in a Muslim country, so I was studying the Bible and catechisms by day, and, at night, you'd hear the [Muslim] prayer call," Obama recalls. "My mother was a deeply spiritual person and would spend a lot of time talking about values and give me books about the world's religions and talk to me about them.

"Her view always was that underlying these religions was a common set of beliefs about how you treat other people and how you aspire to act, not just for yourself, but also for the greater good."

Obama earned a degree in political science from New York's Columbia University in 1983 and in 1991 graduated magna cum laude with a law degree from Harvard University. Since 1993, he has been a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-spirit05.html

[LadyPilgrim]

What is it with the dems?
They can't seem to help themselves!

Lie, lie, lie, lie.

But with a name like barack obama.........even I knew there was something amiss..............