Posted on 08/02/2015 11:53:07 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
For various reasons, though, he may PRETEND at times that he has.
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From AsiaTimesOnline
Feb 26, 2008
"Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech. ..."
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bkmk
It’s the emperor has no clothes proposition. Everybody knows what the real answer is but deniers keep asking the same old question as if doing so will change reality.
You are what you do.
Haven’t they attended church maybe 4 times since in the WH? And once was to hear a muslim speaker.
The reasons are not unclear.
It’s a “ gotcha” question and we must find a GOP candidate who is smart enough to refuse to be “ got”. so far Trump is the only man smart and brave enough to call out the press for its tactics and to refuse to answer irrelevant questions.
The standard across the board answe is “what relevance does this question have to my campaign ...... or to America? Obama has served for 7 years and is gone January 2017. We are here to talk about where we go from there. NEXT question...”
I've heard something similar...
They aren’t asking this to challenge Obama. They are asking this to trip up Walker worth his base who a lot believe Obama is a Muslim.
All this is water under the bridge, it is history, it is a distraction to keep Republicans attacking Obama the victim, and this is why selected reporters continue to raise this question.
The guy has no balls.
There is no reason to doubt “I”bama’s word.
I mean its not like he is a pathological liar or anything.
Well he wasn't baptized back then, so they probably went with the religion of the father.
Tangential question I've never heard anyone ask...apparently he was baptized at Jeremiah Wright's church. What is the form of baptism they use there, and is it Trinitarian and valid?
The correct answer for this particular ‘gotcha’ question is, “That’s between him and the Lord. Why ask me?”
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Yeah valid. Not sure what they do at your church, but most churches judge a baptism invalid unless the correct form is used.
Meaning basically, it didn’t work. The person has not become a member of the Church.
So their obsession is not with Obama’s religion but their need to prove that Republicans are obsessed with it.
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