Posted on 08/29/2010 4:45:25 PM PDT by RobinMasters
President Barack Obama dismissed a recent poll showing that a third of Americans don’t know he’s a Christian – and blamed an online campaign of misinformation by his conservative enemies for perpetuating the myth that he’s a Muslim.
“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” Obama told NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, sitting under a tent in a rain-soaked New Orleans, where he commemorated the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
“The facts are the facts. We went through some of this during the campaign — there is a mechanism, a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly,” said a visibly annoyed Obama, referring to “birthers,” who have waged a guerilla campaign questioning the validity of his Hawaiian birth certificate.
“I will always put my money on the American people, and I’m not going to be worried too much about what rumors are floating around there.”
A stunning 18 percent of Americans identify Obama as Muslim, according to a Pew poll released earlier this month. Only a third identified Obama, who speaks passionately about his faith in his autobiography, as Christian.
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It’s a deal. (high ten)
See 259!!!
Fantastic way to get the word out! (high ten!)
LOL! I do that, too! It’s amazing how much news shows up on FR before anywhere else.
Back at ya!!
I'll just leave this simple Little search result here as well.
It’s a real pleasure when I hit the “reply all” button after receiving e-mails from some some of our deranged democRATic friends with their left wing stews of messages, LOL!!!
lol. Cyber jousting.
That’s a great way to get access to people who would otherwise probably never see or hear anything but what the MSM feeds them. The people who mostly elected this guy.
If devine providence sometimes controls the supposed silver tongue of Obama, then I look forward to his next series of executive orders.
SMART BET: resigns < 2012, OR doesn’t seek 2nd term
GOLLY. first time i heard 'bout this!!
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