To summarise:
for some reason, Obama switches in the quote from speaking about his [putatively nonexistent] “Muslim connections,” to stating, after signficant badgering by Stephanopolous, that “McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.”
Given that we know Obama attended mosques for Friday prayers as a child, the claim that he had no Muslim connections is ridiculous on its face, whether or not he ever considered himself a practising Muslim.
It seems like a guilty conscience, since the word that clearly is uppermost in his mind concerning linkages between himself and Islam turns out to be “faith,” not “connections” or “friends and relatives.”