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.
Fine with me. I don’t really care how we beat this guy.
A World Without God
http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=8cc2cbec37e651d2005f
Ummmm obamabots? Character IS an issue, you dolts!
yup, some see bambi as evangelical? HUH?
So Sarah Palin and bambi are evangelical?
Yes, of course, I’ve had SOOOOO much difficulty distinguishing the differences between those two myself! /s
What planet are these lunatics from?
How does anyone make that gaffe with Stephanopolous, “my muslim faith”?????????
The phrase ‘adheres to’ in reference to religious faith ought to clue in even the sycophantic fool who wrote the piece. Barack Obama is not a Christian, for if he were he would not ‘adhere to’ protecting the suffocation killing of born alive and completely separate from thier mother’s body INFANTS as he adhered to that wickedness while in the Illinois Senate. I doubt even faithful Muslims would claim such a Molechian.
When and where was Obama baptized? I have seen no evidence that he is baptized.
The past 4O years.
His mother was an atheist, and the second man she married, BO's stepfather, was a Muslim.
Obama has NO faith. He is an atheist.
“it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion” Barack Obama
“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” Karl Marx
what planet? O’uranus is the only one that come to mind, but i think they are pod peeps! ;)
[... 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...]
Sorry to be late on this, Quix. Been at church all day.
Here’s the story and the Post.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2113731/posts?page=14#14
Renee L. Abena Obama. The most shocking discovery about BHO was hidden within David Obama’s “relatives” list and it casts a very, very dark occultic shadow on BHO. The name “Renee Abena Obama” appeared. Who is Renee Abena Obama? Actually, the proper question is, “Who was Renee L. Abena Obama?”
An exhaustive search revealed the birth of a baby girl named Renee L. Abena Obama on October 31, 2004. The infant died less than two months later on December 25, 2004.
Young infants frequently die from congenital complications, though the death was not reported by any hospital in the State of Maryland, but by a funeral home (indicated by the SSDI code: 72).
BHO’s biographies do not report the death of an infant in 2004, yet here was a baby girl who bore his last name—and the initial of his grandmother’s middle name—Madelyn “Lee” Dunham. A search of the Social Security Death Index produced “No Results,” though a genealogical index at WorldVitalRecords.com produced a Social Security number: “215-71-0752.”
Entering the number directly into a search revealed its owner:
Name: Renee L Abena Obama
Birth Date: 31 October 2004 (Historical Events)
Death Date: 25 December 2004 (Historical Events)
Issuing State: Maryland
SSN: 215-71-0752
A subsequent review of birth and death dates of the Dunham family revealed a startling coincidence—Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham (BHO’s maternal great-grandfather) was born on December 25, 1894—exactly 110 years before Renee’s death.
Renee was born under strange circumstances. Her death at age two months was strangely reported with almost no details memorialized in the public record. Therefore, we have the “authority” to speculate on the significance of Baby Renee L. Abena Obama’s short life.
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