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Beckwith posted:

This is an incorrect quote and it gives the Obamalytes reason to defame FreeRepublic.

What you posted in 67 was not a quotation, it was an opinion.

I'm trying to find out what quote Beckwith was referring to.

Meanwhile, Pastor, you have joined FR to promote your blog, and if you had lurked around here for any amount of time, you would know that that kind of thing is frowned on around here, to say the least.

You have misread my motive of referring to my blog.

It was primarily to provide data, not to promote.

If anyone objects, please do not link to any read I have provided above if it refers to my blog. Again: please do not link to any of those reads. I don’t need those reads. Seriously. I provide those links for the data only.

I have stated my motive. I hope those who are honest accept my honesty as well.

This is all too confusing for me.

The incorrect quote is:

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

The correct quote is:

"In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging," he laments. "I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

The Obamalytes are parsing every quote and if the quote isn't 100% accurate, they discount, the writer, the blog or forum and everything else remotely connected to it.

Now, personally, I read both quotes to mean effectively the same thing.

"Them," referring to Arabs and Pakistanis as "Muslims" is not incorrect. But it gives the Obamalytes wiggle room.

What the Obama Campaign, his supporters and operatives are doing is using several early poor reports of Obama's life to discredit the larger body of negatives that are readily available on the Internet.

It's the same thing about the madrassa story. Obama never attended a madrassa, and to say he did is incorrect. It allows the Obamalytes to discount the fact that Obama not only studied Islam, the Quran and Hadith, but he attended Mengaji classes, in which he studied the Quran in its original Arabic.

Right now, several of us are preparing a response to a coordinated free expression attack from an Obama campaign operative, Dr. Danielle Allen, and sympathetic reporters at the Washington Post. Stay tuned for the results of this.