Posted on 08/18/2010 9:41:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
But not only has that fact not gotten through to many Americans, the percentage of adults who believe he is a Muslim has now risen sharply after holding steady for two years, according to a new Pew poll out today. For my money, though, the real headline--and the news that should be causing heartburn over at the White House right now--is that the percentage of Americans who can correctly identify Obama's religious faith as Christian has dropped by 14 points in the past year and a half. A plurality of Americans (43%) have no idea what religion he practices.
I'm going to repeat that because this is very unusual: a year and half after Obama moved into the White House, Americans are far less certain about who he is than they were during the campaign. That isn't a good trend line for any political figure, but especially not the president. It may be appealing for an offbeat Hollywood actor or a reclusive writer to be seen as an enigma. But politics is a personal arena--voters like to feel that they can relate to a president or at the very least understand who he is. More dangerous for Obama is the fact that if a politician doesn't define himself, his enemies are more than happy to do it for him. The Pew poll is evidence that the endless conservative media cycle of misinformation about Obama is working: of those respondents who identified Obama's faith as Islam, 60% said they learned the "fact" from the media. (Note that the poll was conducted before Obama waded into the so-called Ground Zero mosque controversy.)
Barely one-third (34%) of Americans can correctly identify Obama as a Christian, compared to more than half (51%) who could do so during the 2008 campaign.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.blogs.time.com ...
Here’s a dollar, go buy me a Time. No, not a copy, the whole magazine!!
Amy Sullivan
Communists and muzzies in America and abroad relate very well to him.
Its real Americans who don't.
Just couldn't let that go uncorrected.
Show me a pic of him eating a Pork Sandwich or anything since Ramadan.
..LOL...now thats an Urkel photo....LOLOL
I was in Africa when election was on. I was living there and visiting in three nations. All the muslim money changers had pictures of the one in his muslim regalia in their booths. All celebrated on election results.
Need I say more?
Notice tonight the Imam’s media had three stories on the stupid public believing he is a Muslim. AP, Time, and WA Post.
I bet even more but I cancelled TV a year ago because TV supports him.
Tomorrow the spin will be that he is NOT a muslim or Imam like Rush called him.
He is effing Imam. TOTAL propaganda by the media.
OK, the guy that has declared Ground Zero as the 5th holiest site in Islam isn’t a muslim... riiiiight.
Actually, whether he’s a muslim or not is only interesting in that we must ask ourselves whether we would have elected a Brit instead of George Washington, a Mexican instead Teddy Roosevelt, a Nazi during WWII, or a Kruschev instead of Reagan.
As it turns out, this is the first time in American history when ‘we the people’ have elected a supreme representative from the enemy camp.
Well, he may or may not be Muslim but there is no doubt he isn’t Christian.
Amazing, isn't it? It's almost like, gosh... I dunno... like there is a central clearing house for "news" stories where liberals "journalists" get together and decide how they are going to present "bad" news to the uneducated sheeple.
Oh wait...
Another fascinating thing is that none of the many articles on this topic qualify as "straight news stories. All of them editorialize by insisting the Obama is a Christian even though he identified himself as a Muslim in a televised interview (quickly "corrected" by the interviewer) and even though absolutely none of his actions since taking office have been typical what most Christians identify as indicative of Christian morals, ethics or thought.
Curiouser and curiouser...
...no wonder why the MSM has got it’s back up.....now we know why he’s outta town for 10 days......
Most of them are probably members of the MSM.
Wanna know?
When’s the last time he’s taken his family to church in DC??
Why doesn’t the MSM show pictures of them attending church.
Must be that he’s:
too busy; out of town on vacation; at Camp David; noon tee time; missed Rahm on Saturday’s meeting, had to pick chitlins with Mo at the freedom garden; needed to pick up Bo’s dump on the South Lawn; misses the great inspiration of his long time Chicago reverend Wright; has Farrakan into the White House for personal counseling on numerolegy.
or, just doesn’t give a sh!t!
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