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Cairo: Obama’s Double-Fudge On Whether Father Was Muslim
FinkelBlog ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 06/04/2009 5:10:35 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

“I’m a Christian. But my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims.” – Pres. Barack Obama, Cairo speech, June 4, 2009

Describing in his Cairo speech today his father’s relation to Islam, Pres. Obama pulled off the rare double-fudge, simultaneously suggesting less and more than the truth of the matter. I think I know why. So let’s desconstruct. Obama could have simply stated “my father was a Muslim.” And that would appear to be the truth. AP’s Jennifer Loven, largely considered an Obama fan, has straightforwardly written: “his father and grandfather were Muslims.”

But he chose instead to say that his father “came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims.” That might seem to suggest that his father had not been a Muslim himself. How do we explain this first fudge? I’d say it’s for domestic U.S. consumption: Obama’’s not eager to inform American voters of the fact his father was a Muslim. Did you ever hear him state it during the campaign? Clearly he’d rather not start now.

So where’s the double-fudge?

View video here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apostasy; barackobama; bho44; bhoegypt; bhovisit; cairo; islam; muslimworld; obamafamily
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1 posted on 06/04/2009 5:10:36 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Obama double-fudges the facts about his Muslim father ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 06/04/2009 5:11:19 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oabam, the Marxist Muslim, now thew world knows.


3 posted on 06/04/2009 5:12:17 AM PDT by Tarpon (You abolish your responsibilities, you surrender your rights.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

They played clips of this speech on an Ottawa talk radio station, and I literally got sick to my stomach. I had to turn it off.

His pandering to Muslims makes me seriously ill.


4 posted on 06/04/2009 5:13:20 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He also wants to avoid the muslim label of “apostate” for leaving the religion of his father.


5 posted on 06/04/2009 5:14:49 AM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
If his father was a Muslim, then Obama is a Muslim who (he claims) became a Christian. That's a problem for bambi.
6 posted on 06/04/2009 5:16:31 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: proud American in Canada

His pandering speech affected me the same way. I turned my TV off this morning, too. What a puke!


7 posted on 06/04/2009 5:16:32 AM PDT by raisincane (Dims think we're all oblivious to the obvious)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It's OK for a mohammedan to lie to infidels, but it is not OK to lie to other muslims.

It is really NOT OK (death) for a slammer to convert to another religion.

8 posted on 06/04/2009 5:17:51 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: raisincane

“I turned my TV off this morning, too. What a puke!”

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LOL! Puke, indeed. ;)


9 posted on 06/04/2009 5:17:57 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama double-fudging is simply his ownership of the subjective reality of himself. He’s a Prince

The MSM’s subjective reality of the Prince in actuality is he’s The Messiah

gawd..


10 posted on 06/04/2009 5:18:44 AM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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To: silverleaf

“He also wants to avoid the muslim label of “apostate” for leaving the religion of his father.”

That’s precisely the double-fudge I describe in the article.


11 posted on 06/04/2009 5:18:45 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Conservative criticism of the liberal media: www.finkelblog.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Please check my blog on the whole speech, "Obama's Velvet Deception in Cairo":

http://patriotshistoryusa.blogspot.com/

12 posted on 06/04/2009 5:18:58 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
So Zero claims to be a "Christian" does he? Curious.

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13 posted on 06/04/2009 5:23:55 AM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" and the Scout Motto)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If his father was a Muslim; he is a Muslim. He needs to step down as POTUS.


14 posted on 06/04/2009 5:25:27 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think he’s clearly telling the muslim world that he’s a muslim himself....


15 posted on 06/04/2009 5:31:22 AM PDT by NotSoModerate
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To: LS
He makes it very clear that he was "raised muslim". Mommy was an atheist. But here in the US, if you're going to work the Community Service angle, you join a Christian Church....like Reverend Wrong's.

Also notice that he has yet to find a church in DC. BUT WHEN HE GETS BACK FROM his "I'm a MUSLIM" trip, I bet he will FINALLY choose one.

P.S. Date in NYC or attend church with children????

16 posted on 06/04/2009 5:32:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama briefly mentions Koranic study and describes his public school, which accepted students of all religions, as "a Muslim school."

"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies," Obama wrote. "My mother wasn't overly concerned. 'Be respectful,' she'd say."


17 posted on 06/04/2009 5:46:34 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were a clueless, idiot, and suppose you were Barack Obama; but I repeat myself)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Obama’s dad was an east german trained communist. the guy would have been moslem in about the same way Iraqui bathists were moslem. it was a secondary matter. they were communists first.


18 posted on 06/04/2009 5:47:32 AM PDT by ckilmer (Phi)
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To: Sacajaweau

Personally, I don’t think he’s a Muslim NOR a practicing Christian. It’s a prop, like everything with this guy.


19 posted on 06/04/2009 5:47:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The AP’s Jennifer Loven is THE cheerleader for Obama among the Washington press corps. The AP makes no pretense to be other than what it is, an arm of the Democrat Party.


20 posted on 06/04/2009 5:48:55 AM PDT by Melchior
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