Posted on 02/25/2008 6:20:20 PM PST by markomalley
It was Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan's first major address since facing down cancer.
It was in Barack Obama's backyard—his hometown of Chicago. Farrakhan, perhaps the nation's most potent symbol of antisemitism, told a Chicago crowd of 20,000 that Obama is America's next savior.
"This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.... This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father:
"A black man with a white mother became a savior to us.... A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."
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Carolyn
Had to know this was comming I have been reading reports all around the Muslim world that Obama is the only good hope for America’s president.
This came up during the Tuesday debate. Obama did an elaborate catwalk around the issue....
Russert: “Do you reject his support?”
Obama: “Well, Tim, I can’t say to somebody that he can’t say that he thinks I’m a good guy.”
Scary.
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