Obama’s Historical Ignorance and Disdain for the Faith

Barack Obama has one final year to realize that the National Prayer Breakfast just isn’t a good venue for him. Obama’s track record at the annual function has been little other than disastrous, and another president—one with a more hostile media and a less dedicated constituency—would have been ruined already by previous catastrophes.

Obama’s problems with the National Prayer Breakfast began in earnest in 2012, when the keynote speech at the affair was given by author Eric Metaxas. The speech Metaxas gave in advance of Obama’s own address was a tour de force and an indictment, though a polite one, of Obama’s position on abortion and other social issues as decisively anti-Christian. Metaxas stole the show and left Obama giving a speech that had been thoroughly repudiated from the same podium just minutes earlier, about how Christianity included essentially the same moral framework as Hinduism or Islam.

Then, a year later, Ben Carson used a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to more directly challenge Obama’s leadership. Carson, a highly-successful surgeon who grew up in far more challenging circumstances in the slums of Detroit than did Obama in Honolulu, spoke of the existential threat political correctness posed to America. He attacked Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the so-called Affordable Care Act, as nonsense. Afterward, according to Carson, the president’s underlings called the event’s organizers to inform them that Obama had taken great offense and to demand an apology. Carson’s speech created such a sensation that two years later he’s being touted as a potential candidate to succeed Obama in the White House.

But at this year’s event last week, Obama didn’t need a prominent conservative to upstage him. He was perfectly capable of creating a man-caused disaster on his own...

I assume his prayer breakfast speech was the result of his secret meeting in the White House with the Muslim Brotherhood.

The real story, Barry, is that you reacted to the burning of a man alive by making excuses and pointing your finger at others.

What could be more outrageous than insulting Christians at a prayer breakfast?

Rush Limbaugh, EIB - Feb 10, 2015:

“......[Bob] BECKEL [on The Five]: You know what I’ve finally figured out about this, I think, is I think Obama grew up among Muslims. I think he was very strongly affected by Muslims. I think in his dream of dreams he hopes that these guys aren’t really Muslims, and he doesn’t want to call them Muslims because he really does like Muslims. Here’s a guy that was very much affected by Muslims in his life. Uh, he had friends who were Muslims. I think he just doesn’t want to make himself believe that they could be a nasty group.

RUSH: Okay. (interruption) What is Beckel saying? Well, okay. Let’s parse it, shall we? Bob Beckel said, “You know what I’ve finally figured out about this, I think, is I think Obama grew up among Muslims. I think he was very strongly affected by Muslims. I think in his dream of dreams he hopes that these guys aren’t really Muslims...” To hell with the dreams. What about real life? Are you...? Well.

“[H]e doesn’t want to call them Muslims because he really does like Muslims.” He doesn’t know Muslims that act like this. “Here’s a guy that was very much affected by Muslims in his life. He had friends who were Muslims. I think he just doesn’t want to make himself believe that they could be a nasty group.” (interruption) You think there’s any more to it than that? What are you...? (interruption) Well, he said he grew up among Muslims; he was strongly affected by Muslims.

In his dream of dreams, he thinks these guys aren’t really Muslims. (chuckles) There’s also the fact that there’s a lot of them, and he just may not want to make ‘em mad. (chuckles) Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. “Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but isn’t a duck.” That’s Beckel’s explanation here. Beckel’s finally figured it out. (summarized) “He just can’t believe it. He’s president of the United States, and he just can’t believe that these guys are Islamists. He can’t believe they’re Muslims. He knows Muslims, and they don’t do this.”

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