Posted on 03/24/2012 10:23:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who was campaigning in Louisiana ahead of Saturday's primary, told reporters he believes President Barack Obama is a Christian but his behavior is causing many Americans to think he is a Muslim.
Former House Speaker Gingrich said Friday, the day before Louisiana will hold its primary, that perceptions over Obama's faith were not baseless. "It should bother the president. Why does the president behave the way that people would think that?" Gingrich said after a speech on Louisiana's Gulf Coast when reporters asked about polls indicating many Americans think Obama is a Muslim. "You have to ask why would they believe that? It's not because they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you."
Public Policy Polling recently found that 52 percent of the GOP primary voters in Mississippi and 45 percent in Alabama thought Obama was a Muslim.
Gingrich referred to the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate which requires all employer-based health plans to provide free contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs for employees; and the president's apology last month over an accidental burning of the Quran in Afghanistan by U.S. troops which led to attacks on Americans stationed in that country.
Gingrich, who is a Catholic convert, clarified, "I have said publicly several times that I believe Obama is a Christian. He went to a Christian church for over 20 years. He was listening to the sermons." However, he added, "I think it is very bizarre that he is desperately concerned to apologize to Muslim religious fanatics while they are killing young Americans while at the same time going to war against the Catholic Church and against every right-to-live Protestant organization in the country. I just think it's a very strange value system."
Before he became president, Obama attended a United Church of Christ congregation in Chicago. After taking office, he has only occasionally attended churches in the Washington area.
Gingrich raised the issue several times earlier this week in Louisiana. "First, look you need to understand the elite media is in the tank for Obama. They're going to do anything that helps re-elect Obama. They're totally committed to Obama. It is just astonishing to me how pro-Obama they are," he told the Sandy Rios in the Morning radio show Thursday. "You think you're going to see two pages on Obama's Muslim friends? Or two pages on the degree to which Obama's persistently apologizing to Islam while attacking the Catholic Church? Do you see anybody in the elite media prepared to see say, 'Gee, you know this is kind of odd that we really worry a lot about the Quran and nothing about the Bible?'"
On Wednesday, Gingrich said at a stop in Pineville, "They're anti-religious unless it's Islam. This is the heart of the Obama problem, the dilemma he has." He also told Fox News, "Why is it he's more sensitive to radical Islamists who are killing young Americans than he is to the Catholic Church, to Baptists, to fundamentalists. I mean, the fact is, this is a very strange presidency."
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who is leading in polls in Louisiana, also spoke Friday about Obama's pro-Muslim "bias." "You know, it's not surprising this president will go down in history here as the president who has embraced radical Islamic groups," he told the Sean Hannity radio show.
Amid doubts about his faith, Obama has reaffirmed his Christian beliefs. During a 2010 backyard discussion in New Mexico, he revealed that the "precepts of Jesus Christ" drew him to Christianity and affirmed that "we achieve salvation through the grace of God." He has also spoken about his faith during prayer breakfasts and holidays including Christmas.
Gingrich is having some “foot in the mouth” disease lately. Christians don’t behave “like Muslims.” A disciple of Rev. Wright is NOT a Christian, such a person is a Marxist in sheep’s clothing.
I like Newt!
obama is a misguided usurper who has been living on the race card his entire life.
...empirical evidence that, though magnificent,his time has passed.
Time to choose between Rick or Mitt or you have already chosen Mitt.
It’s a pun!!! Making fun of Zero! He is trying to say in the nicest of ways that Zero is a Muslim!
Barack Obama is not a Christian; that fact is beyond obvious, and I'm disappointed in Gingrich for saying that he is a Christian.
Yeah, you wish. He said exactly what he should have said. A Christian can not say another Christian is not a Christian. He can observe if he walks the talk and Newt is pointing out he does not walk the talk. Perfect tone. Unlike Mr. Foot in his mouth, Santorum.
You missed it.
I agree. He is saying if it walks and quacks like a duck you shouldn’t have to be goosed to conclude it is a duck. lol!
Why, indeed?
I almost spit out my coffee when I saw the headline. It is genius! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Newt just made the point that we already knew. Obama’s upbringing and present-day actions all speak reality. We knew all this BEFORE he was elected.
And he still got elected.
He is, of course, neither. Obama is a good, articulate little puppet, who puts his personal anti-colonial and Communist beliefs aside to focus on mollifying the Left while consistently doing the bidding of his benefactors: George Soros, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and JP Morgan. :)
So, if a sheep is a ram and a donkey an a$$, then why is a ram in the a$$ a goose?
I dunno. . .
;-)
LOLOL!!!
If the idiot Republican establishment does not choose Newt, we need to encourage him to go on a perpetual speaking tour. American voters need to be educated in the obvious.
LOL! I loved dressing up paper dolls.
He behaves like a secularist who sees a political advantage in calling himself christian.
I don’t think Obama ever was a Chistian.
He is Muslim through and through.
“A Christian can not say another Christian is not a Christian.”
Aren’t individuals known by their deeds.
Isn’t that (Obama is not a Christian) exactly what Gingrich is saying of Obama?
Oh, I get it now. To the Newties, their guy can’t say or do any wrong like Kings of old.
You're missing the point. Newt knows better than to claim outright that Bozo is a Muslim, the MSM would be all over it. However, he can point out that Bozo's behavior towards Muslims and Christians is decidedly in favor of Muslims because it is true and a matter of record and the MSM can't deny it. Thus his "Christian but acts Muslim" statement and then points out all the pro muslim and anti Christian things Bozo has done.
actualy, he is a muslim who behaves like a marxist
Gingrich thinks Obama is against abortion, and not pro-homosexual, etc.?
Yes, Chritians are known by their deeds. Which is exactly what Newt said. Obammy is a “Christian” who acts like a Muslim; which is why so many suspect that he is a Muslim. Perfect tone; knee capping the Left.
if it walk like a duck, etc.
What might make him President of the Confederacy or Prime Minister of New France or King of Louisiana won't help him much to win the November election in this reality.
“.........while consistently doing the bidding of his benefactors: George Soros, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan and the Saudi/Wahab cabal.
I took the liberty of adding one more group to your list. I think Zero committed a faux pas by bowing to the Saudi king...his muslim master, letting the cat out of the bag; and then tried to cover it over by bowing to everyone else but the janitor on subsequent visits to other venues. IMHO
If so, then Newt should have said “Obama says he’s a Christian but acts like a Muslim” which is vastly different from what he actually said.
Barack Obama is not a Christian; that fact is beyond obvious, and I'm disappointed in Gingrich for saying that he is a Christian.
Word.
Brilliant statement, considering what Wright was preaching. Remember, Obama said he never listened to the sermons?
You mean Vesty has foot and mouth disease. Newt is right on...there are catholics who dont view other faiths as christian and vice versa.
“On Wednesday, Gingrich said at a stop in Pineville, “They’re anti-religious unless it’s Islam. This is the heart of the Obama problem, the dilemma he has.” He also told Fox News, “Why is it he’s more sensitive to radical Islamists who are killing young Americans than he is to the Catholic Church, to Baptists, to fundamentalists. I mean, the fact is, this is a very strange presidency.”
Amen Newt!
Vesty is a pious little fraud that endoses pro choice candidates and voted for pro choice judges. I am beginning to question whether he is a true christian
Twisted logic don’t ya know. That Santorum is now considered a “fraud” because he voted for a Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee who in turn insured Justice Alito’s nomination, and of course Sotomayor was nominated to the bench by Bush pere and she swore that the constitution meant what it said and voted to uphold a partial birth abortion ban while being a federal district judge and all the recent polls show that the “hard” conservatives are voting overwhelmingly for Santorum, Nice try from guys trying to defend the electability of a guy who calls for establishing permanent lunar base colonies in eight years, pie-in-the-sky-chicken-in-every-pot $2.50 gas/gallon in two years, and is finishing either third or dead last in the recent primary contests.
Can’t remember the exact words.
0bamao stated he would stand by the muslims before anyone else.
That says it all.
“Goose”? Now, it’s a gender identity.
Unlike Mr. Foot in his mouth, Santorum.
Thankfully most people don’t take what he says literally and knows what he means. He will win Louisiana today THANK GOD! Poor Newt might make 3rd place and beat Paul, but that is not for sure. He sure is racking up last place finishes across America. I feel sorry for Newt....absolutely zero voters, but still thinks he can get the nomination. He is a dreamer that is for sure.
and Spector who voted against Bork and voted for Obamacare and RS voted for a 9th circuit judge that is profoundly liberal and ROMNEY who introduced socialized medicine to the USA...NOT to mention Sonia ...even McCain voted NAY. Rush was warning against voting for Sonia and claimed it would open the door to her nomination for a position on the supreme court. Yes, Sanctimonious voted for quite a few pro choicers.
IF not for Spector casting the 60th vote..we would not have Obamacare..thanks Vesty
“Obama has reaffirmed his Christian beliefs. During a 2010 backyard discussion in New Mexico, he revealed that the “precepts of Jesus Christ” drew him to Christianity and affirmed that “we achieve salvation through the grace of God.”
“achieve salvation”? Huh? I think you RECEIVE salvation.
Ephesians 2:”8........it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast
“precepts of Jesus Christ” What an odd thing to say. Not exactly “Christian Speak”. Something a liberal academic would say. but wait....
Santorum always comprimises his religious convictions to vote pro choice. He can’t blame this one on the “team”
. In 1997, she was nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Her nomination was slowed by the Republican majority in the Senate, but she was eventually confirmed in 1998. On the Second Circuit, Sotomayor heard appeals in more than 3,000 cases and wrote about 380 opinions. Sotomayor has taught at the New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School.
The “team” voted against her
It's the perfect religion for him. A Phony religion for a Phony man.
It is phony because it was completely MADE UP by Muhammad. A very despicable person. An illiterate rapist, pedophile, murderer, thief, genocidal maniac. Not calling names, this is fact. The perfect religion for Obama.
Paez, 9th circuit liberal that Santorum voted for "Following March 9, 1994, nomination by President Bill Clinton, confirmation by the United States Senate on June 15, 1994, and reception of commission on June 16, 1994, Paez became the second Mexican American to sit on the bench of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, a district that covers Los Angeles.[2]
Paez was confirmed by Senate on March 9, 2000, by a 59-39 vote, more than four years after President Clinton first nominated him to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Paez waited 1,506 days to be confirmed, which at that time was the longest wait for a vote by any judicial nominee in U.S. history.In a 2009 decision, he held that a San Francisco resolution urging the Vatican to withdraw a directive against same-sex adoptions does not violate the Establishment Clause. [3] In a 2011 decision, he issued the majority opinion upholding a lower court's blocking of the most controversial parts of the Arizona SB 1070 anti-illegal immigration law from taking effect Santorum is a pious little fraud! There isn't much difference between Romney and Santorum
Does anyone seriously think that Obama really understands what a follower of Christ is or should be? First, it means humbling oneself and acknowledging Jesus as the Son of God, and the Redeemer of mankind. Secondly, it also means that we are all sinners and must daily strive to be more Christ-like, i.e. behave with all the Christian attributes that are proclaimed in the New Testament.
Obama does not appear to have a single iota of humility in him. He lies like a rug, and he is in a battle against God-fearing people in the USA and in the world. He says nothing in response to the anti-Semitic events happening daily in the world, and he seems to be oblivious to the plight of Christians in the Middle East. Of course, since he himself is guilty of persecuting Christians in the USA, perhaps he cannot recognize anti-Christian bigotry elsewhere. It is a truism that people cannot see the planks in their own eyes.
‘He said exactly what he should have said’
Gingrich is way above the crowd. He is NOT politically correct, but he can point you in the right direction if you catch his underlying messages. It is no use arguing with the messiah who insists he is a ‘Christian’, or arguing with his obots who believe everything he says. So Gingrich simply points out the ‘weird’ anti-christian things the ‘messiah’ christian does despite his supposedly ‘christian faith’ and the pro-muslim things the supposedly not-muslim obozo does. You will be the judge - is obozo ‘Christian’ as he says he is or is obozo a ‘muslim’ as he acts like one?
We all know the answer!
Don’t be offended that Gingrich says obozo is a christian. He is just pulling everyone’s legs.
‘He said exactly what he should have said’
Gingrich is way above the crowd. He is NOT politically correct, but he can point you in the right direction if you catch his underlying messages. It is no use arguing with the messiah who insists he is a ‘Christian’, or arguing with his obots who believe everything he says. So Gingrich simply points out the ‘weird’ anti-christian things the ‘messiah’ christian does despite his supposedly ‘christian faith’ and the pro-muslim things the supposedly not-muslim obozo does. You will be the judge - is obozo ‘Christian’ as he says he is or is obozo a ‘muslim’ as he acts like one?
We all know the answer!
Don’t be offended that Gingrich says obozo is a christian. He is just pulling everyone’s legs.
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