Posted on 01/19/2007 7:52:42 PM PST by Torie
Obama 'was educated in madrassa'
Tim Reid and Tom Baldwin in Washington
# Senator hid time there, says article
# Clinton distances herself from claims
Barack Obama was given a rude awakening to the cut-throat world of presidential politics yesterday after being accused of hiding four years in which he was educated at a madrassa when a teenager.
The claim, made in the conservative Insight magazine, also revealed the Machiavellian scheming of political activists in a presidential race still nearly two years away.
It was aimed at tarnishing Mr Obama’s image in the week he announced himself as a White House contender. But the article also claimed that the madrassa allegations came from aides to Hillary Clinton, Mr Obama’s main opponent for the Democratic nomination.
This may be wishful thinking on behalf of Republicans. The Clinton camp is determined not to be accused of digging dirt on Mr Obama because they fear such tactics could backfire, given his popularity.
But the Insight allegations represent an exquisite double shot at the Democrats’ two leading White House contenders: it implies that Mr Obama, whose middle name is Hussein, is a closet Islamic extremist, and that Mrs Clinton is so rattled by his candidacy she is using underhand tactics to weaken him.
Mr Obama, who is expected to announce formally his candidacy on February 10, has never been subjected to the hardball tactics of the presidential arena — until yesterday. Last night an aide said that the campaign was working on a formal statement, but added that the claims were “not accurate”.
The online article begins: “Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?” It continues: “This is the question Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp is asking about Senator Barack Obama.”
Mr Obama’s mother was a white woman from Kansas; his father, a black Kenyan Muslim. He states in his recent biography that he attended a predominately Muslim school when he lived in Jakarta as a teenager.
But the article claims: “In Indonesia, the young Obama was enrolled in a madrassa and was raised and educated as a Muslim.” It says that Mr Obama omitted to say in his memoir, or at any other time, that he attended the school for four years.
Mr Obama, who has spent his adult life in Chicago, calls himself a Christian and says that he believes in God. He attends a local church.
A source close to the Clinton campaign told The Times, a day before the Insight article was published, that they do not want to be seen as attacking Mr Obama or digging for dirt, but that they would be happy for another Democrat contender to criticise him.
lol
The Muslims seem to think that Obama is still a Muslim.
Maybe I should contact Obama and remind him that Hillary kissed Arafat's wife.
It would be good to see evil fighting evil.
Both Hillary and Obama would ruin the country, and both are for partial-birth infanticide.
We will defeat this muslim from Chicage by constantly referring to him as Osama Obama.......don't think the average American will vote for someone with names that sound like terrorists!
So to make it really clear for people...this is what Obama supports:
In a partial-birth abortion, the abortionist pulls a living baby feet-first out of the womb and into the birth canal (vagina), except for the head, which the abortionist purposely keeps lodged just inside the cervix (the opening to the womb).
The abortionist punctures the base of the baby’s skull with a surgical instrument, such as a long surgical scissors or a pointed hollow metal tube called a trochar. He then inserts a catheter (tube) into the wound, and removes the baby's brain with a powerful suction machine. This causes the skull to collapse, after which the abortionist completes the delivery of the now-dead baby.
(See www.house.gov/burton/RSC/haskellinstructional.pdf)
That's funny right there, I don't care who you are...
I agree. He's certainly not a Christian.
"Obama was sworn in on a Koran?"
I don't like Obama's politics one bit.
However, he is not a Muslim, and he wasn't sworn in on the Koran (contrary to what some other posters are saying.) His father (who abandoned the family when he was 2) was a Muslim from Kenya, but his mother was a white Protestant woman from Kansas.
Not me. I don't believe it for a minute.
Well then John Fund can kiss my ass. We MUST make every American know that Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was educated in RADICAL Islam.
It is also pretty damn obvious that he converted solely for the sake of political ambition, a mere 14 months before his first political campaign.
why did he get sworn in on a koran?
Really?
I agree with you - I think he is an extremely devious and dangerous person. He's an empty suit, in real terms, but at the same time, like many empty suits, he has demagogue capabilities and he certainly has a personally devoted following out there on the left.
I'll go you one better. I suspect he is basically an opportunist, but you will see that opportunism turn to overt Islam once he gets elected. Watch for a high-profile "conversion" to Islam once he's president.
Has he ever been to Manchuria???
Two birds;
One stone.
Huh??
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