Posted on 09/21/2015 1:14:08 PM PDT by HomerBohn
For once, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is in trouble for something he didn’t say as opposed to something he did. Specifically, he’s taking heat for his failure to defend Barack Obama when one of his supporters questioned his Christian faith.
“We have a problem in this country,” said a man attending Trump’s rally in New Hampshire Thursday night. “It’s called Muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American — birth certificate, man … We have training camps growing, where they want to kill us. That’s my question. When can we get rid of them?”
Trump looked around. “This is how we’re starting?”
After some laughs, Trump went on to say, “We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things. You know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We’re going to look at that and plenty of other things.”
Not much meat on the bones of that answer, but that didn’t stop a legion of liberal critics from slamming the GOP frontrunner. Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz issued a statement reading: “Donald Trump’s racism knows no bounds. This is certainly horrendous but unfortunately unsurprising given what we have seen already. The vile rhetoric coming from the GOP candidates is appalling.”
Others piled on, demanding to know why Trump didn’t insist that Obama was both an American and a Christian. Likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was inspired to personally use her Twitter account to say, “Donald Trump not denouncing false statements about POTUS & hateful rhetoric about Muslims is disturbing, & just plain wrong. Cut it out.”
But why is it so offensive to suggest that Obama is a Muslim? Has he ever spoken of the religion in anything but glowing terms? Was his father not a Muslim? Are there not pictures showing him in Muslim garb and participating in Muslim ceremonies? He claims to be a Christian, and perhaps he’s telling the truth, but there is a lot of evidence to suggest his sympathies lie elsewhere. Why should it be up to Donald Trump to “correct” the man when he has absolutely no way of knowing the truth? None of us do!
But according to the left, anyone who believes that he is a Muslim is wrong. Period. End of story. They are incorrect and misinformed. Offensive and racist.
But why, if Islam is this great religion of peace and love, would it be offensive to suggest that the president might belong to that religion? It should be a tremendous honor, right?
No, apparently it’s “disturbing.” Well, it is, Hillary, but not in the way you think.
Obama is a plague.
It’s their favorite political McGuffin.
Because the left (the enemy) is not considering any elements of the destruction of life and freedom ... it is a death culture and is concerned with the destruction of the USA
the only sign missing would be that he..... as a first born moslem son ,,doesnt bear the name Mohammad...but that may not be the convention for all mooselim families
whizz be upon him
I don’t see The Donald EVER telling audiences not to “be skeered” of an Obama Presidency like McLame did. Why would he defend Barry like McLame did?
Nice turn of phrase.
Because his entire background is a tissue of lies. If one thread gets pulled, the Emperor is just another naked fraud foisted on the citizens by our government.
Islam is not a race Debs. It is, at best. a religion. At worst it is (or in truth) a satanic death cult.
Empire of the ants?
The left has such a weak spiritual compass they honestly believe Islam is their savior, worse than the most deep south bible thumping convention. They will follow the promises of gold, of position, of being famous.
But i believe there is hope for some, if not there is hell and its far from being full.
I would just say that Obama participates in the “religion of peace”. How could that be offensive in any way, shape or form to the liberals in the media?
Who was right? Obama professing his Islamic faith or Stepinawfulstuff (hat tip to Jim Eason) telling him "You mean Christian faith".
This may be the answer.
The Christian "faith" is a cloak. It seems to me.
There was at least one link to this and others on Free Republic. I did not watch it.
There rarely is, in answers from Trump.
THANK YOU!
I was wondering when someone would ask this question.
Why do they go absolutely batfeces when this issue is brought up?
They know the truth, that he’s anti-Christian, and they know he’ll be thwarted if he’s “outed” too soon.
“Who was right? Obama professing his Islamic faith or Stepinawfulstuff (hat tip to Jim Eason) telling him “You mean Christian faith”.”
All I know is if Stephy didn’t correct Obama, we might be in the 7th year of Hillary’s dictatorship instead of Obama’s.
I miss Jim. Do what you can, but behave yourself. Basically.
Doesn’t he have older brothers?
Isn’t it interesting that the left considers it offensive to describe Obama as being a Muslim? I am a Christian, but if someone said they thought I was Jewish, I wouldn’t be offended, I would just tell them they were mistaken.
I’m trying to find out exactly what evidence there actually IS of Obola’s true religion: Is he a socialist atheist homosexual who favors Muslim-black reconstruction theory because both preach hatred against white, christian, capitalism normality?
Or a black homosexual atheist socialist?
Or a socialist homosexual Muslim atheist?
Michelle? She just hates whites. And wants money, power, and access to people who will adore her.
The opposite side of the coin: What’s so awful about being a Muslim?
Trump should have said he didn’t know anything about Obama because he had all his records sealed. End of story.
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