Posted on 03/03/2015 4:48:20 AM PST by SJackson
Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani's recent comments about President Obama not loving American has set off a week of apoplectic press pronouncements and "gotcha" interviews with GOP candidates pelted with the questions: "Does President Obama love America?" and "Do you think President Obama is a Christian?"
These are manifestly silly exercises, largely because the press has no interest in determining the actual answers. (If they did, they would have doggedly pursued those answers years ago.)
Instead of asking what the president's religion is, however, one might do better to ask whether the president understands religion. Because a great deal depends upon that understanding. And his background, many of his comments and his policies all suggest strongly that he does not.
President Obama himself has acknowledged that neither of his parents was religious. His largely absent father was a non-practicing Muslim of far-left political sensibilities. His mother (at least according to her friends) described herself as an atheist. Obama writes that she was "a lonely witness for secular humanism" in Indonesia, and credits her with awakening his interest in politics as a vehicle for change.
Indeed, Obama's view of religion seems always to have been skewed by political expediency. Ed Klein, author of the 2012 book, "The Amateur," conducted hours of interviews with President Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who revealed that when they met, Obama knew very little about Christianity, but a great deal about Islam. (The president has said that he has never practiced Islam.) Rev. Wright further stated that church was "never (the Obamas') thing," but admitted that Obama needed visible membership in a Christian church to court the Chicago black vote.
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No doubt these are not intended as questions, they are demands. They demand GOP candidates praise Obama.
Example :
Grahamnesty fell all over himself telling the networks that he believes that Obama is Christian and loves America. He is Democrats useful idiot, but SC GOP keeps nominating him.
Barry doesn’t need to understand religion. He follows the teachings of a pedophile that founded a cult called islam. No religion involved in islam. It is all about subjugation, discrimination, brutality and domination. Mostly of women but also of religions too.
Barry sees his god every time he looks in a mirror.
Predident Obama understands Islam.
Possible answer to libtard ‘gotcha’ question.
You so-called reporters have had six years and have not yet figured it out?
” Grahamnesty fell all over himself telling the networks that he believes that Obama is Christian and loves America. He is Democrats useful idiot, but SC GOP keeps nominating him. “
Reason ?
You gave it away.
(GR)AMNESTY
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