Posted on 01/24/2007 10:39:13 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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Typical AP-they don't get past the first sentence before trotting out the first lie.
Also note the time (age 6 through 10) that Osama Obama went to that school in Indonesia is the time that he claimed as "education overseas" when he was asked about his experience in international affairs. This, and a few college courses, represent his entire experience in that arena.
I wonder, too, if the AP will spend as much time debunking any false statements or misrepresentations concerning Mitt Romney's faith. Somehow I doubt it.
Didn't they even catch him in some lies that didn't require eye witnesses, like Nixon sending him into Cambodia when Nixon hadn't even been sworn in yet?
Bald-faced lies. Obama was a Muslim for 25 years of his life. His "conversion" of convenience to the ultra-liberal "church" occurred a mere 14 months before his first political run.
The article should be titled "Associated Press Fights Back for Obama"
If Suharto's relatives went there you can be sure it was not an "open" public school as we define them. So did the curriuculum include mandatory quoran classes?? I thought I read a teacher's quote saying that B. Hussain Obama was known making faces in his quoran classes.
Could this be a "Christmas in Cambodia" type lie from Obama???
An atheist white woman doesn't marry a muslim and then bring up her child as a Christian. What phony BS.
"Senator Obama has never been a Muslim," Gibbs said.
Now which one is it?
Unless you have pictures of him, arse up, kneeling to Mecca that are less than 10 years old, and his advocacy of radical Islamic preachers within that timescale, this issue will not work. It is much harder for him to deflect the questions regarding his experience as this is just not a hook he can wriggle off of. Furthermore, it's nearly impossible to call one bigoted if they're merely asking for experience.
Regards, Ivan
A bit confused- article states he went to school there age 6-10. At 6 he was in Catholic school as a Muslim. He states he went to the 'public' school age 7&8. Where did he go at age 9 10?
Doesn't Obama himself claim he attended a (mostly?) muslim school?
He sure didn't classify this place as a public and secular institute.
When I was born, I was signed up as a Christian. I had no choice in the matter. By the age of 6, I still had no choice, and very little more understanding of what being a Christian meant. The same thing apparently happened to Obama.
So, for whatever reason, Obama "converted" to Christianity later in his life. If that move was sincere, that's great, I'm happy for him. If it was only to further his political career, that's a problem.
What concerns me far more is what the Muslim world would think of the "apostate" Obama, and how that would affect his attempts to deal with that world as president. Would he be marked for death for this reason alone? Would he be more likely than a Christian-from-birth to be targeted for assasination? Would an implied or actual threat of death make him more likely to cave in to terrorist demands?
Reads like a non-denial denial to me.
That was just one of many -- DOCUMENTED in their book.
Semper Fi
My point is that he was registered as a Muslim, and his spokesman knows this. It's a matter of public record.
So why say "he was never a Muslim"?
The swing vote in the middle couldn't care less about his religion, then or now. In addition, anyone who tries to use it against him will find themselves hoist on their own petard as the middle is exceedingly "tolerant". I don't care whose party or campaign first broaches the subject, and I don't care if they're probably right - It won't make any difference in the end.
Mark my words on this - Forget his religion and attack his ideas intelligently or suffer the consequences.
Regards,
Col Sanders
Has anyone read the autobiography which he now claims is fiction? I understand he has made statements about the untruths in the faux autobiography. What are the lies he admits to?
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Obama's mother, divorced from Obama's father, married a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family relocated to the country from 1967-71. At first, Obama attended the Catholic school, Fransiskus Assisis, where documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim, the religion of his stepfather.
The document required that each student choose one of five state-sanctioned religions when registering Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant. Gibbs said he wasn't sure why the document had Obama listed as a Muslim.
Photograph of the Fransiskus Assisis school registration document, taken in Jan. 2007 by AP reporter and photographer Tatan Syuflana, but not used in the article at that time.
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