Posted on 01/21/2007 5:54:09 PM PST by ricks_place
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. ...
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...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....
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
don't waste all your powder on Obama. Save some for the real threat.
Excellent point.
It's due time I join a Militia.
Sounds like something Hillary's camp came up with.
Barack Hussein Obama
my, my my! What do we have here? a Wahabbi Democrat?
Well, so much for Barack Obama's candidacy - strangled in the cradle.
What a coincidence! So was Osama!
If Obama were to be elected President I would have to write off the USA as gone.
ok, so it looks like Obama converted from Islam
to Christianity.....hmmm....isn't there some kind of
punishment for that?
Umm... So as a teenager he undoubtedly recited the Muslim catechism in school. And now he's a member of a Christian church.
Wonder how the imams will like a Muslim apostate running for president.
Jinks! Great minds think alike.
No, he was educated at a fairly secular high school. He became radicalized in university, under the tutelage of Sayyed Qutb's brother and Azzam. It's possible he attended a madrasa before he entered the Al-Thager Model School, but unlikely; his family's business was business, not religion.
If you are a male between 17 and 45, or any member of the National Guard, you are already a member of the militia. See 10 USC 313.
Well, soldier we can take care of that straight away...
http://www.berets.com/media/john-wayne-green-beret-sm.jpg
Australia is a good option. Probably the only one. But I'm prepared to fight if Hillary wins.
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