Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) tells PEOPLE magazine in the issue
out Friday that he and his wife, Michelle, do not give
Christmas or birthday presents to their two young daughters.
Photo: AP July 24, 2008
I picked this up here.
Posted on 10/26/2008 1:08:54 AM PDT by Chet 99
FRANKFORT — Public misconception is widespread in Kentucky about Barack Obama's faith, a Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll shows.
Despite heavy national media attention about Obama's faith, more than half of likely Republican voters — 54 percent — and one of every four Democrats in the state do not know that the Democratic presidential nominee is a Christian, the poll found.
The poll showed that 14 percent of likely Kentucky voters — 28 percent of Republicans, 4 percent of Democrats and 11 percent of independents — think Obama adheres to the Muslim faith.
"With all the media attention to the fact that Obama is a Christian, it is shocking and sad to hear that any Kentuckian or anyone thinks he is a Muslim," said Mahmoud Sha lash, imam of the Islamic Center of Lexington.
"I am concerned that some people are spreading this rumor for political purposes, trying to exploit the anti-Islamic sentiment in this country that ties Muslims with terrorists," Shalash said. "I don't blame the ignorant bigots as much as the educated people who try to perpetrate this."
The telephone poll of 600 likely voters was conducted Oct. 19-21 by Research 2000, of Olney, Md. It has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Those polled were asked the religion of Obama and his GOP opponent, John McCain. Respondents were not offered suggestions to choose from.
Sixty-one percent said Obama was a Christian. One percent answered Catholic, 12 percent said other and 12 percent were not sure.
Eighty-two percent said McCain was a Christian. Six percent called him an evangelical, while 3 percent answered Catholic, 2 percent replied other and 7 percent were not sure.
Del Ali, president of Research 2000, said he'd like to ask those respondents who said Obama is a Muslim if they listen to syndicated conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Ali also thinks many people know Obama considers himself a Christian but don't believe he is one. "That's a personal opinion from national polls I've seen on this issue," he said.
The non-partisan Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life says Obama's denomination is United Church of Christ and McCain, raised an Episcopalian, attends a Southern Baptist church. It also says Obama's running mate Joe Biden, is a Roman Catholic, and McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, attends several evangelical churches in Alaska.
Obama's campaign had little to say about the poll results.
"This election is about issues," said Obama spokesman Dan Leistikow. "It's about whether voters in Kentucky and across the country want another four years of the same failed policies that caused this economic mess and sent Kentucky job overseas."
Kentucky Republican Party Chairman Steve Robertson said the presidential candidates' religion has not been an issue in Kentucky. He said more Republicans than Democrats think Obama is a Muslim because Obama "has made an effort in Kentucky to portray his religious beliefs to Democrats but has not talked about religion to Kentucky Republicans."
Robertson said he was referring to fliers the Obama campaign distributed in Kentucky this spring during the Democratic primary election that showed Obama at a pulpit in front of a church's cross and pipe organ.
The erroneous perception that Obama is a Muslim might be due in part to the fact that he spent part of his childhood in a Muslim country and that his father was a Muslim, said the GOP official.
Obama's name makes some people think he is a Muslim, said Walter A. Johnson, director of information services for the Lexington Theological Seminary.
"I had a friend who said Obama is a Muslim because of his name," Johnson said. "I said McCain has an Irish name, but I think he's an American."
Republican Larry Forgy, who narrowly lost to Democrat Paul Patton in Kentucky's 1995 race for governor, said Obama's heritage is why some people think he is a Muslim.
"I know he's not a practicing Muslim but, to me, his preacher, Jeremiah Wright, sounds more like Malcolm X than Billy Graham."
Wright is the former pastor and now pastor emeritus of the Trinity United Church of Christ, a megachurch in Chicago with about 10,000 members.
His manner of preaching has been scrutinized in connection with Obama's campaign. Obama first denounced some of Wright's statements and then resigned his membership in the church last May.
Martin Cothran, senior policy advisor for The Family Foundation of Kentucky, a conservative activist group based in Lexington, said he is "surprised that so many people don't know Obama is not a Muslim."
"I think it's simply because his name sounds Islamic," he said.
Laila Al-Qatami, communications director for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, D.C., said it is "disheartening" that any American still thinks Obama is a Muslim or Arab.
"Too many people associate Muslims with terrorists, that is, a proclivity to violence or people who are not patriotic to this country," Al-Qatami said. "Calling Obama a Muslim is an attempt to discredit him."
The Herald-Leader/WKYT Kentucky Poll found little confusion among voters about McCain's faith. More than 80 percent of the respondents in each major political party — Democrats, Republicans and independents — said McCain is a Christian.
A large percentage of whites and blacks — 83 percent of the whites and 77 percent of the blacks — said McCain is a Christian
But for Obama, blacks and whites viewed his religious beliefs very differently. When whites were asked Obama's religion, 58 percent said Christian, 16 percent Muslim, 1 percent Catholic, 13 percent other and 12 percent not sure.
Eighty-two percent of blacks said Obama is a Christian, while only 2 percent of blacks considered him a Muslim.
“With all the media attention to the fact that Obama is a Christian, it is shocking and sad to hear that any Kentuckian or anyone thinks he is a Muslim,” said Mahmoud Sha lash, imam of the Islamic Center of Lexington.
We Kentuckians know two things VERY WELL:
#1 never trust the government
(translation: we don’t take kindly to ‘revenuers’ who are after our good boubon whiskey)
#2 never trust a foreigner who’s running for office in the government
(translation: we don’t take kindly to foreign nationals who think they’re the “Messiah” who try to pass themselves off as God-fearing Americans and have the “Audacity of Hope” to run for the U.S. Presidency based on what they’re told to do in “Dreams from Their Kenyan Fathers”!)
“Barry X has faith that black jesus (in the form of barry himself) will destroy the white devils of the US KKK of A.”
It’s like Barack Obama is the black grand wizard of an ant-whites underground XXX!
‘Obama Never getting his kids Christmas gifts”
How do you know thhis?
It was in many, many news sources early in the campaign, it was posted here, among other places. Obama even spoke about it, saying something like, “It’s just something Michelle and I don’t do.”
He was reared as a Muslim in Indonesia and then belonged and attended a Black Liberation Theology church in Chicago for twenty years. A Christian would not have done that.
and that is what I believe to be the case as well. He hates everything about America and its’ people.
I picked this up here.
Actually, in one of the ‘May We Never Find Out’ ads, the question is leveled — where was Obama baptised?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112676/posts
MAY WE NEVER FIND OUT! Let freedom ring!
[mayweneverfindout.org]
[And a document is shown that he was techniclaly Islamic while in Indonesia]
Barack Obama’s Muslim Childhood—What does it mean if he was a ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008536/posts
more than half of likely Republican voters — 54 percent — and one of every four Democrats in the state do not know that the Democratic presidential nominee is a Christian,
On what basis do you claim he is a Christian?
Having studied the Christian faith I find no evidence that they (Christians) sanction or work towards the murder of babies. Obama does. On that FACT alone I would conclude that he is not a Christian. There are several other factors that certainly dispell the myth that he is a Christian but the first one should pretty much do it for any real Christians.
He’s NOT
a Christian.
That’s a wholesale farce.
His faith is in MARX, HIS GLOBALIST PUPPET MASTERS AND GLOBALISM AND HIS OWN IMAGE IN HIS MIRROR . . . AND IN RADICAL RUTHLESS TYRANNICAL REFORMING OF SOCIETY AND THE WORLD.
The only thing Christian about him is that he lives in a formerly mostly Christian Nation.
I guess that makes him a car when he walks into a garage.
Calling any eager disciple of Wright a Christian is like calling Hitler an innocent choirboy.
I forget where the post was . . . I think Jo Nuvark . . . very plausible narrative about evidently a daughter of Obomb that turned up dead at 2 months. Was she ritually sacrificed for his formal entry into the illuminati? Plausible.
In any case . . . the idea that OBomb is a Christian is a wholesale insult to the whole concept and very word “Christian” —Christ-like.
Remind me, how much does the Obama campaign pay to have these “articles “ published ?
Can you believe the bias ?
Where are the articles clarifying Mccain/Palin positions ?
Whay write articles like this, unless the intent is to aid the campaign ?
This newspaper should be considered an arm of the campaign and it’s profits considered campaign donations .
I have seen dozens of these articles posted here- which means there are likely more that have not been posted.
There must have been a memo sent out- it would be very incriminating to find the instructions that were sent out to write and publish this “factoid” over and over again.
It’s vile propaganda..
Of course Obama is a ‘Christian’. Why are people ‘ignorant’?
Obama wants kindergarteners to get masturbation training:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2081131/posts
Two Fundamental points:
1. “I don’t want to punish my daughter with a baby.” [Fights harder to protect ACORN crimes than to save his unborn grandchildren.]
2. His position on live-birth abortion.
Obama: “My Muslim Faith” [Gaffe]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M
Black Liberation Theology is not Christianity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDcQUcAjoeI
Barack Obama’s Muslim Childhood—What does it mean if he was a ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008536/posts
Muslims Do NOT celebrate birthdays Barack Obama Does Not Give Birthday Presents To Children
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2051760/posts
Why doesn’t Obama believe in giving Christmas presents to his kids ...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080810005912AAu2yHe
In one of the following ads, you’ll see a document showing Obama was Islamic, and the question is asked — when was he baptised?
The Best Ads of the 2008 Campaign Season
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112676/posts
MAY WE NEVER FIND OUT! Let freedom ring!
[mayweneverfindout.org]
He also helped organized the Million Man March with Black Muslim Farrakhan. In a NY Times interview, he said the prettiest sound in the world is the Moslem call to prayer and proceeded to recite the words verbatim. I can think of many beautiful sounds in the world. What about a baby's cooing” a beautiful song, etc.
During the Spanish inquisition, Sunni Moriscos attended mass and returned home to wash their hands of the ‘holy water’. In operational terms, taqiyya and kitman allowed the ‘mujahadeen ’ to assume whatever identity was necessary to fulfill their mission; they had doctrinal and theological and later jurisprudential sanction to pretend to be Jews or Christians to gain access to Christian and Jewish targets: ‘the mujahadeen can take the shape of the enemy’.
Taqiyah and Kitman The role of Deception in Islamic terrorism
Some of the people you'll just never be able to fool.
He’s obviously a nominal Christian, despite growing up a nominal Muslim. But we have “by their fruits you shall know them”, and I don’t like what I’m seeing at all, on many counts, very certainly to the point of not wanting him anywhere near the oval office.
LOL, their poll needs a bit of freeping.
If this isn’t evidence of the media in the tank for Obama, I don’t know what is. There’s no point to writing this article, other than to help Obama.
Bwwwwaaaaaahaaaaahaaaaaahhhhaaaaaaaa!
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