Posted on 07/15/2008 5:23:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I was watching Morning Joe today, and someone (I don't recall if it was Mika or Joe, or whom ...) was lamenting the fact that polling shows us that 39 percent of Americans (read yokels) mistakenly believe Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia, etc.
Jonathan Alter of Newsweek similarly mocks the notion, writing:
His stepfather sent him to a Muslim school. False. When Obama lived in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, his mother and stepfather sent him for a time to a Catholic school, and for a time to an Indonesian public elementary school, where he had a class in Islamic studies (as required by the state). When CNN and other news organizations investigated whether this was a "madrassa" (religious school), the answer was a clear "no." Girls did not have to cover their heads, prayers were not required, students came from many different religious backgrounds and the school was recognizably "public."
The only problem is that this contradicts Obama's own words ...
On page 154 of "Dreams From My Father," Obama writes:
"In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during the Koranic studies."
And on page 204 of "The Audacity of Hope," Obama has a slightly different recollection, writing:
"During the five years that we would live with my stepfather in Indonesia, I was sent first to a neighborhood Catholic school and then to a predominantly Muslim school."
(Okay, so this time he refers to the school with the qualifier "predominantly" ... but the words "Muslim school" are Obama's -- not mine. And if the quote from "Dreams From My Father" is correct, this "predominantly" Muslim school required "Koranic studies" -- a notion that Jonathan Alter acknowledges was part of the law).
HERE'S MY POINT: If there is confusion about whether or not Obama attended a Muslim school, it does not come from ignorant people ... rather, it comes from people who actually took the time to read his books -- and believe him...
As such, you could argue that the biggest source of the Muslim rumors is Obama himself. He's the one who wrote and published the rumors -- not some right-wing cabal.
Why is this important? The liberals who are vigorously trying to "set the record straight" act as if conservatives are the ones who pulled this out of thin air in order to fool a bunch of rednecks living in places where one must cling to guns and religion.
But Obama's own book says he attended the Muslim school. So if there is confusion, I pretty much have to think that he is to blame. And along those same lines, let me also point out it was a liberal magazine -- not a conservative one -- who published the controversial cartoon cover that has been derided as offensive.
Note: It really doesn't matter whether or not Obama attended a Muslim school. What does matter is whether or not he is telling the truth. And I think it is also important to note that this rumor was not started by conservative skullduggery, but by Obama's own writings ...
Everyone, regardless of their religion, should be able to relate to this.
We can not blame Obama.. He Hardly Knew his self..or he didn’t know himself that well.
That is the point. The man is a liar. He doesn't "fudge" or shade things or do nuance. He just lies.
If you get upset about cartoons with muslims in them, you may be a muslim.
That’s where he learned to be absent whenever anything important was happening.
The media is going to have to round up every copy of “Dreams From My Father” and destory them. It goes against their storyline. Hehehe.
It’s only a matter of time before Obama throws himself under the bus.
Just because he attended Muslim school and his dad was a muslim socialist and his step dad was a muslim socialist and his cousin odinga is a muslim socialist,
That dont mean he has a muslim background!
Sound like the reporters are Moslem, so they understandably
lie to the stupid dhimmis watching their show.
You said “destory” rather than destroy, but both work! LOL
Poor syntax. /s
Don’t give Team Obama ideas, they probably would enact a “Sin Tax” if it didn’t effect abortion, homosexuality, pedophilia, democratic corruption (redundancy?) or welfare fraud.
Obama is confused and the old media, the goliath of truth, is helping him get his facts straight. obama did not attend a 100% muslim school, nor were his 2 daddies full muslims, nor the rest of his family. They were all kind-hearted, good people, who only on rare occasion, wanted to cut the heads off infidels.
Maybe it is fiction first the rev then the school I really wonder were the truth lies.
Went to a Catholic School, did he?
OK. Where’s his baptismal record? Where is any document that says he was a Christian at an early age?
Seems the documents, like a full birth certificate, are missing.
In the late 50's, I attended a public school in New Jersey which was "predominantly Christian". We opened up every school day with a Psalm from the Bible, and everybody (including the non-Christians) got a chance to read a Psalm. I don't recall any Muslims; there were a few Jews.
So did I attend a "Christian school"?
Hell, no. I attended a public school. The "Christian school" was (for example) the Catholic school down the road a piece.
So what's the big deal if Obama attended a "predominantly Muslim" school? Who cares?
What matters is that the man is a socialist running for President, with a decent chance of being elected. His childhood school orientation is a big yawn! Why in heaven's name do we have such a hard time staying on topic?? It's his politics that should have all our attention.
Sometimes I really wonder...
I think the problem is Obama lies for self serving purposes.
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