Hi Danielle ... we've missed you ;o)
Posted on 10/12/2008 8:21:33 PM PDT by kristinn
The most persistent falsehood about Senator Barack Obama's background first hit in 2004 just two weeks after the Democratic convention speech that arguably set him on the path to his presidential candidacy: "Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion."
That statement was contained in a press release and it spun a complex tale about the alleged ancestry of Obama, who is Christian.
The press release was picked up by the conservative FreeRepublic.com Web site and spread virally and steadily as others elaborated on its claims over the years in e-mail messages, Web sites and, ultimately, books. It continues to be an engine that drives other false rumors about Obama's background to this day, with one finding national, public voice on Friday, when a woman told Senator John McCain at a town-hall-style meeting, "I have read about him," and "he's an Arab." McCain corrected her.
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But an appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground.
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Theories about Obama's background have taken on a life of their own. But every independent analyst seeking the origins of the cyberspace attack winds up back at Martin's first press release, posted on the Free Republic Web site in August 2004.
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"Martin gets credit for the idea of, call it 'the sound bite narrative mien,"' said Danielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University who has investigated the e-mail campaign's circulation and origins. "What he's generating gets picked up in other places, and it's an example of how the Internet has given power to sources we would have never taken seriously at another point in time."
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
Click the source link to read about Andy Martin's very serious anti-Jewish statements and his other behavioral issues.
My MIL insists Hussein is a Muslim.Wonder where she got that idea?All she does now is hang out at the Seniors Center and such.And I’ve never mentioned it.
Will have to ask her now.
Why is it bad for actual Christians to be Christian, but when Obama, who although he may not actually be Muslim, definitely has Muslim tendencies, or is at least Muslim curious, claims to be Christian, it is all streamers and confetti?
“At that time, Barry was also praying in a Catholic way, but Barry was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his father was Muslim.” Barry’s first-grade teacher Israella Dharmawan told the San Francisco Times
“Barry was a Muslim. He went to the mosque,” boyhood buddy Zulfin Adi told the Times.
“My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim,” half sister Maya told another reporter.
In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he also registered as a Muslim. Students at the school attended weekly religion lessons about Islam which were taught by Muslims.
In his autobiography, Dreams From My Father, Obama mentioned studying the Quran and describing the public school as “a Muslim school.”
http://www.usvetdsp.com/jan08/obama_lou%20tribe.htm
Osama HUSSEIN Obama is not a naturalized citizen, he is Kenyan-born, adopted by an Indonesian and never renounced his citizenship...even if he was born in Hawaii as he claims (which I don’t believe), he’s at best a DUAL citizen and is thereby disqualified from running for President.
For someone with THAT ONE’s questionable background, shady friends and associates, and his extremely socialist record as a US Senator and almost ZERO experience to be the nominee, I despise the DUmocrat party’s adoption of communism as their ultimate goal and those who’d sit idly by and allow their party to promote such a man as THAT ONE.
The goals of Communism 1963:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100029/posts
Obama Not Qualified For President
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhuToYz2KMA&NR=1
UPDATE! - Barack Obama Birth Certificate Forgery Confirmed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC54PXA0jG0&feature=related
It's "meme", you moron.
Yay, FR.
American can hardly afford to turn her loose in anyplace that's important.
This Martin guy is not important. No one's going to be giving him a top job no matter who wins this election.
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. ..."
Article: Obama's women reveal his secret
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
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From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]
[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
I have no idea where you guys picked that one up ~ most likely out of ignorance.
Probably half the population has dual citizenship of one kind or the other and doesn't even know it.
No doubt ALL the descendants of the First Families do.
on this issue: last I heard converting out of Islam into Christianity is frowned upon...often a death sentence. Barack Hussein Obama was born and raised a Muslim. He speaks publicly about his conversion to Christianity. BUT HE IS NOT AFRAID OF OFFENDING MUSLIMS. Why????? Could it be that they know Jeremiah Wright’s Christianity is a fraud? Could it be that they believe he is still one of them? Look at his support in the Arab world. Why? Cartoonists and authors live in hiding, but Obama is unafraid. Why?
MUST SEE VIDEO OF OBAMA IN KENYA CAMPAIGNING FOR MARXIST THUG/"COUSIN" RAILA ODINGA!!
8 minute version:
"Barack Obama & Raila Odinga"
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related
Raila Odinga's official website:
"Your Agent of Change", "Register For Change", "Vote For Change"
http://www.raila07.com/
I wouldn’t elect a muslim or anybody that even used to be a muslim President of the United States..
It does disqualify Obama if that “dual citizenship” is for Kenya and Indonesia.
Andy Martin, under his former name Anthony R. Martin-Trigona, was not a credible person to either conservatives or liberals in Chicago. He was a gadfly like Sherman Skolnick, but quite angry.
However, I think that Obama’s muslim past is one of perhaps 16 serious issues of concealment that should have been broadcast to the electorate ad nauseum and should disqualify him before the electorate:
1. He lied about having being raised as a Muslim.
2. He tried to present himself as having been raised in Hawaii, when in fact he was raised in Indonesia.
3. He probably lied about where he was born and has failed to provide a birth certificate or other demonstrability ability to be President under the US constitution and federal law.
4. He concealed details of his trip to Pakistan and his citizenship at various times throughout his life.
5. He lied about the extent of his relationship with Bill Ayres.
6. He lied about the extent of his involvement with ACORN.
7. He concealed details of his job as a community activist.
8. He concealed his role with the Annenberg Foundation.
9. He lied about his role with the Woods Foundation.
10. He lied about the extent of his involvement with the former heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
11. He has concealed his college and law school transcripts, his application to practice law in Illinois and his list of clients as a practicing attorney.
12. He lied about being known by any names other than Barack Obama.
13. He lied about his membership in the New Party in Chicago.
14. He never adequately explained why he decided to move to Chicago after law school and start his political career here.
15. He lied about his involvement with Rev. Wright.
16. He concealed his grandmothers, making them unavailable to the news media.
Thank you for sharing your press release with me. I am happy to provide you with the same information I provided to the Washington Post:
(1) I am a donor to the Obama campaign.
(2) I volunteered full time for the Obama campaign as a field organizer in California from the end of December through the Feb. 5th primary.
(3) I have met Mr. Obama once (in a shouted greeting across a parking lot) in Chicago.
I conducted the research entirely on my own steam motivated by broader research purposes.
Best wishes,
Danielle Allen
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