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So When Will a Muslim Be President?
Slate ^ | Nov. 12, 2008 | Mark Oppenheimer

Posted on 11/14/2008 7:56:03 AM PST by forkinsocket

A guide to which minority group has the best chance to win the White House next.

At long last, my people have an answer to the question "When will we have a Jewish president?" The answer, it turns out, is "Not before we have a black president." I imagine that all ethnic groups play this game of "when will one of ours get there?" (The question is especially common among Jews, since we're sort of white and used to success at other jobs—law, medicine, swimming.) But now that a half-African man with Muslim ancestors has defeated, for the presidency, an Episcopalian with a Roman numeral after his name, the bookmakers have to move the odds for all of us.

Which historically oppressed group will see one of its own take the oath of the presidency on a Bible/Quran/Analects/etc. next? We must admit that some groups are too small to have much of a chance—met any Zoroastrians lately?—and others seem too exotic. But plenty of others are in the running. Here, then, is a guide to which minority group will next see one of its own in the White House, in descending order of probability, and with possible candidates included:

The women: First off, they're not a minority. With so many more men than women imprisoned, unable to vote because of felony convictions, dying in battle, and murdered, there are both more women alive and more women eligible to vote. If they choose to unite behind one of their own—as many of them were inclined to do in 2008—they'll be the not-so-little voting bloc that could.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2008; blackpresident; husseinobama; minorities; muslim; muslimamericans; muslimpresident; president
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To: RaiderRose

Perhaps when the swooning ends, I will be able to have a look at more objective reporting. However, I am not holding my breath.


41 posted on 11/14/2008 8:33:35 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Long Island Pete
And his middle name Hussein is just a silly coincidence? Please point me to another Christian with that name.. Take your time...
42 posted on 11/14/2008 8:43:37 AM PST by petercooper (1/20/13 - Change I can believe in.)
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To: sarasota

I think objective reporting, at least as far as the msm goes, is done. Until somebody can get us a cable network, there will be little in the way of fair and balanced.


43 posted on 11/14/2008 8:43:47 AM PST by RaiderRose (No thanks, Barry. You can keep the Change.)
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To: EagleUSA

“He will lie AGAIN when he takes the oath.”

I have no doubt about that.


44 posted on 11/14/2008 8:45:10 AM PST by Canedawg (The media is a ass, a idiot.," said Mr. Bumble.)
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To: forkinsocket

That’s easy to answer and probably has been by many on this thread already but I will say it anyway: On 20 Jan 2008.


45 posted on 11/14/2008 8:49:59 AM PST by calex59
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To: PRePublic
I am still changing channels anytime he is on...

Me too. Can't stand that lying piece of crap. This turd took a two year campaign and setting the Chicago type machine to steal the election.

46 posted on 11/14/2008 8:50:16 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Long Island Pete

Of course he’s a muslim.

And that bull about getting a hypoallergenic dog.....

hah, his muslim teachings do not allow dogs as pets.


47 posted on 11/14/2008 8:51:19 AM PST by Carley (Real Americans love Trigg's mom.)
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To: lado
I’ll keep saying it, the leftists won’t be happy until we have a black Muslim lesbian woman as president. Oh who am I kidding, they’ll still b1tch and moan!

I am sorry but they will not be happy until they have a black, muslim, who is a man but decided to have a sex change operation and then become a lesbian after the operation. AND they still won't be happy, because the left makes a lifestyle out of keeping the masses stirred up and there will always be some "injustice" they must wipe out, including the people who are causing it, for the good of the body.

48 posted on 11/14/2008 8:54:48 AM PST by calex59
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To: forkinsocket

Well... DUH! Eight weeks from now? Just a guess...


49 posted on 11/14/2008 8:56:50 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("...a hyphenated American is not an American at all." T. Roosevelt)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Well... DUH! Eight weeks from now? Just a guess...

"Duh" is right. Obama's 'movement' is a communist movement, not an Islamic one!

50 posted on 11/14/2008 9:03:08 AM PST by ETL (Smoking gun evidence on ALL the ObamaRat-commie connections at my newly revised FR Home/About page)
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To: AU72

It’ll be the Bible being held up there, but his hand won’t actually be touching it. Look for the space between his hand and the Bible ...


51 posted on 11/14/2008 9:13:52 AM PST by Jackson57
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To: forkinsocket

Next January 20th we’ll not only have our first Muslim President, but our first foreign president, if SCOTUS or the Electors don’t act on the missing birth certificate.

Debbie Schussel has now pointed out that Obama has faked his draft registration certificate online, as well as his COLB. And he has refused to release ANY of his other records, either.

Is he a Muslim? Probably. Is he an Indonesian? Probably.


52 posted on 11/14/2008 9:20:32 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ladyvet

Is that David Shuster?


53 posted on 11/14/2008 9:23:21 AM PST by Shady Ray
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To: forkinsocket

We’ll have one in January 2009. No secret there.


54 posted on 11/14/2008 9:29:49 AM PST by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: forkinsocket

We gotta’ do a lesbian, first.
Then a trans-gendered quad.
It’ll be a few years...they’re just going to have to wait.


55 posted on 11/14/2008 9:33:38 AM PST by baltodog (R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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To: Long Island Pete

Not sure what that post about paranoid was trying to say, but I’d say that since he _already_ was sworn into office by laying his hand on the Koran, it’s really quite simple which religion he is made of.


56 posted on 11/14/2008 9:35:05 AM PST by veracious
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To: ETL

Double duh, he was sworn into political office with his hand on the Koran already. New age Christianity?


57 posted on 11/14/2008 9:38:46 AM PST by veracious
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To: Shady Ray

OMG, I think it is!!!!!


58 posted on 11/14/2008 9:39:31 AM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: veracious
he _already_ was sworn into office by laying his hand on the Koran,

OK, now I know you have no idea what you are talking about. Do you know who sworn him into office? I would bet the answer is no. I despise everything he stands for, but when conspiracy theories are dealt out on FR, I just have to sit back and shake my head at the stupidity.

59 posted on 11/14/2008 10:00:52 AM PST by Long Island Pete (Facts are stubborn things.)
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To: sarasota

Yeah, I still get that sick feeling in the pit of my stomache every time that I see him on television and realize the sick fact that America rejected our God who is good and elected this muslim (or just godLESS) man who is evil to govern our nation. Completely dumbfounded over this whole situation.

Keep wanting to hit the rewind button and redo this whole process again. No God we didn’t mean it - really we didn’t, Not obama!


60 posted on 11/14/2008 10:07:20 AM PST by Godsgirl
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