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 ...
This seems to be a pretty important subject this week.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a Muzzy cuzzy knew no other way.
For good reason.
...there’s gotta be a UK story ready to hit soon......they did the same thing a few days ago about “HOW A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE MULTIBLE SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS....then a story came out about Dumbo’s multi card snafu from the UK....
Think of it as a pre-strike strike...
A lot of people thought he was a Christian until they got a good look at Reverend Wright.
Since then almost no one believes he is.
Now the only question is if he is a communist muslim, a muslim communist, or just a communist.
....and would that be the north end of a south bound horse or the converse.....
just asking....
I’m not so sure...lol
They are of course wrong.
We shall know them by their fruits, and boy-o-boy, does the guy produce rotten fruit.
Barry’s dad was a muslim, therefore Barry is a muslim.
You should have photographed that!
I would posit he is both.
didnt see that. what was the snafu?
Yep.
Yep and then there was Moochelle who made a similar comment on the campaign trail twice when talking about their trip to “ Africa, to Kenya, Brack’s home coutry.....” ( and in one she mentions they took an aids test. Then there was a uTube going around not long ago in which 0bama is talking to a group of people dressed in western clothes in a setting something like a big hall that had archs..and he goes on to say that there are some who think he was not born in America,,,he said he was not born in Hawaii and was not born in America and then went on to talk about just what that means to american elections and the video cut off there and went to Moochelle and her speech. Anyone remember that?
The MSMers are kind of pleading to the electorate, “Please believe us when we say he’s not a Muslim. He’s a Christian, we swear. Don’t you believe us?” Hey, desperate times call for desperate measures.
Well, I wasn’t sure until Time /hurl said he wasn’t. That’s enough proof for me that he is.
Well, that and his reluctance to wear a tie (Christian symbol in islam), reluctance to give gifts on Christmas, reluctance to celebrate his birthday with others (harem under sunni islam as practiced in Indonesia), support for the 911 victory mosque, bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia, having his dog (again, harem) flow seperately, etc., etc.
It is funny that people who don’t really like Christians are so anxious for him to be taken for one.
Yes, I saw that. It was a very badly edited and chopped video of his speech in Turkey. Totally phony.
Um, don’t underestimate the ability of Steele and the fGOP to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.
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