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 ...
“It’s looking like the JournOlist is back in action because there have been several stories today trying to “correct” the belief that Obama is a muslim and not a Christian.”
It’s a perfect example of “me think the lady doth protest too much” - yes?
“had to pick chitlins with Mo at the freedom garden;”
LOL - “chitlins” don’t come from the garden, but you brought up an interesting point...they DO come from pigs, which could be a point of heritage conflict for BHO-:-))))))
“This seems to be a pretty important subject this week.”
For good reason.
And it needs to be, ongoing. A real shame it wasn’t BEFORE November 2008.
“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.”
Wow - any chance you can find that again and give a link or url for it???
“It was a very badly edited and chopped video of his speech in Turkey. Totally phony.”
So it was fake, then? Too bad. But there IS plenty of real stuff out there, like the stephanopoulus thing, the Kenyan grandma (who’s not been seen or heard from again?) thing, and more.
“After all, that and “whites are evil” is what Wright’s BLT teaches.”
BLT.....how can one be SO bad and one be SO good (with home-grown tomatoes) LOL
“Fox News is NOT conservative, it’s only slightly more to the center than the rest of the jourbalists”
actually good newspeople/journalists don’t appear as either, liberal or conservative. of course, those days are long gone. (maybe greta van susteren?) but of all the networks, i still prefer fox news because it covers stories/reports things that you simply will never hear on the others. most of their news folks are good (shep smith a notable exception) and some of their pundits (beck, hannity, gutfeld) are pretty conservative.
“Add Lauren Greene of Fox News to the mix. Totally disgusting.”
And as of just now, Harris Faulkner, too :-( She was reporting a latest Pew poll and she said __% “wrongly think he’s Muslim”. tsk, tsk. As a news reporter, she should use neither the word “rightly” NOR “wrongly”.
Interesting, though, that the White House has now felt the need to issue a public statement reinforcing BHO’s “Christian” faith.
From the drop down, here is an expanded version;
One thing I’m sure of. Obama is an effete A$$.
Yes, that video is a terrible fake. But you’re right, there is no need for it.
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