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Heilemann Confirms: It Was Hillary Who Started Rumor Obama Not Christian
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/21/2015 5:07:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

John Heilemann was a rather reluctant witness. But when called on to testify, so to speak, Heilemann confirmed a stunning fact: that during the 2008 presidential race, it was Hillary Clinton who started the rumor that Barack Obama might not be a Christian.

The matter arose when on today's Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough ripped Hillary's hypocrisy on Face the Nation yesterday for criticizing Republicans who question Obama's religion, "when it all started with her and her campaign passing things around in the [2008] Democratic primary." When Steve Rattner asked Heilemann, in his role as inside-campaign-baseball expert, to confirm whether Joe's allegation was true, Heilemann tersely said "it was the case."

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I’m so confused. Is it bad to be a Muslim or not? The left keeps me scratching my head in wonderment. Aren’t they the ones who defend Muslims, or not? Now, it’s a bad thing? Lord - help me -help us all.


41 posted on 09/21/2015 6:06:27 AM PDT by Catsrus (Trump/Cruz - the only 2 worth voting for. I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Don’t forget the Clintons had (still have?) their legendary private detective squad / political hit team (Palladino & Sutherland).

But the Chicago Mob likely stalemated them in 2008 by threatening to “go there” over Arkancides.


42 posted on 09/21/2015 6:10:03 AM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: maggief

Saw that! Very cool :)


43 posted on 09/21/2015 6:11:22 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Catsrus

LOL. It IS hard to keep up with the MSM’s hypocrisy :)


44 posted on 09/21/2015 6:12:21 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

Keep stirring it, DT! Can’t wait until he tackles vote fraud.


45 posted on 09/21/2015 6:17:26 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Catsrus
I’m so confused. Is it bad to be a Muslim or not? The left keeps me scratching my head in wonderment.

LOL. Someone needs to ask the talking heads why they are so worried people are calling Hussien muslim.

46 posted on 09/21/2015 6:26:11 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: Paine in the Neck

That photograph is iconic. The wide open maw, the expression of malice, and the frail, atrophied, squishy hand.


47 posted on 09/21/2015 6:29:04 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Her Royal Hipness can get away with her hypocrisy because the media will never remind the public, and the public has a short memory.


48 posted on 09/21/2015 6:48:35 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

One year, maybe all of his years at the White House he has postponed the day of prayer and had a huge party celebrating Ramadan. Notice during Ramadan, he does not wear his ring.


49 posted on 09/21/2015 7:07:01 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: jsanders2001
But its not a rumor...He is Muslim.

Obama is an agent of the Muslims. I say he is a Muslim too but not literally. He does everything in a pro-Muslim way. He is also an atheist and always favors the gay agenda which no Muslim would get involved in

FACTS:

  1. He spent his younger years, ages 6-10, in Indonesia as a Muslim living with his Muslim step father and his mother
  2. he had two Muslim fathers
  3. He was registered as Muslim at school in Indonesia>>>>
  4. Where he went to weekly Koran classes where he memorized the KKKOran in Arabic
  5. He was born Muslim so to make the break with Islam he needs to be baptized
  6. Obama has never been baptized because he is a wise guy and a semi-Muslim
  7. -
  8. Moochelle and their two daughters were baptized at Reverend Wrights wacky church, but Obama skipped out on this

 

50 posted on 09/21/2015 7:23:22 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

Lots on Obama and his religion right here

http://www.theobamafile.com/obamareligion.htm

Quranic Studies

In his autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as “a Muslim school.”

During the time that he was in Indonesia, young Barry Soetoro, being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school. He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam.

However, Obama received additional training. As the principal from 1971 through 1989 remembers, Obama had studied “mengaji.”

Our guy in Jakarta writes: “The actual usage of the word ‘mengaji’ in Indonesian and Malaysian societies means the study of learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language rather than the native tongue. “Mengagi” is a word and a term that is accorded the highest value and status in the mindset of fundamentalist societies here in Southeast Asia. To put it quite simply, ‘mengaji classes’ are not something that a non practicing or so-called moderate Muslim family would ever send their child to. To put this in a Christian context, this is something above and beyond simply enrolling your child in Sunday school classes.”

“The fact that Obama had attended mengaji classes is well known in Indonesia and has left many there wondering just when Obama is going to come out of the closet.”

“As I’ve stated before, the evidence seems to quite clearly show that both Ann Dunham and her husband Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo were in fact devout Muslims themselves and they raised their son as such.”
The Witnesses
In “Dreams...,” Obama himself recalls, “In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies.”

According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama’s teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. “I remembered that he had studied “mengaji” (recitation of the Quran)” Tine said.

Obama’s classmate Rony Amiris describes young Barry as enjoying playing football and marbles and of being a very devout Muslim. Amir said, “Barry was previously quite religious in Islam. We previously often asked him to the prayer room close to the house. If he was wearing a sarong he looked funny.”

Another classmate, Emirsyah Satar, CEO of Garuda Indonesia, was quoted as saying, “He (Obama) was often in the prayer room wearing a ‘sarong’, at that time. He was quite religious in Islam but only after marrying Michelle, he changed his religion.”

In an interview with the New York Times, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, “My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.”

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51 posted on 09/21/2015 7:25:43 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: maggief

You gotta give Trump credit for using Twitter like no other candidate has done before. Brilliant move on his part.


52 posted on 09/21/2015 7:29:59 AM PDT by McGruff (The angry majority has awoken.)
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To: Liz

CLINTON STAFFERS CIRCULATE ‘DRESSED’ OBAMA
Mon Feb 25 2007 06:51:00 ET

With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a “dressed” Barack Obama.

The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his five-country tour of Africa.

“Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?” questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

In December, the campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim.


53 posted on 09/21/2015 7:34:04 AM PDT by McGruff (The angry majority has awoken.)
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To: dennisw

2007 HILLARY DIGGING INTO OBAMA’S MUSLIM PAST

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/01/22/hillary-clinton-drops-madrassa-bomb-on-barack-obama.html

This is a partial transcript of “The Big Story With John Gibson,” January 19, 2007, that has been edited for clarity.

JOHN GIBSON, HOST: The gloves are off: Hillary Clinton is reported to be already digging up the dirt on Barack Obama.

The New York senator has reportedly outed Obama’s madrassa past. That’s right, the Clinton team is reported to have pulled out all the stops to reveal something Obama would rather you didn’t know: that he was educated in a Muslim madrassa.

I was criticized on this show for outing Obama as a smoker, but look at what some anti-Obama Democrats are doing to her political rival now. They are playing the Muslim phobia card.

Is this just the beginning? Is the Obama honeymoon officially over? What other dirty little secrets will come out as they battle it out in the race for the White House? With me now is Republican strategist Terry Holt.

Terry, this is appearing on a Web site today, Insight magazine, which is a subsidiary of The Washington Times. Here’s the question. I’ll put it up on the screen: Barack’s madrassa past. He says that “during the five years that we would live with my stepfather in Indonesia, I was sent first to a neighborhood Catholic school and then to a predominately Muslim school.” That’s from his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”

Now in the meantime, this is what Democrats are saying, according to Insight magazine. They’re looking into his background. They’re saying: He was a Muslim. He concealed it. His opponents within the Democrats hope this will become a major issue in the campaign.


54 posted on 09/21/2015 7:34:36 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: dennisw

What a frickin hypocrite.

55 posted on 09/21/2015 7:39:54 AM PDT by McGruff (The angry majority has awoken.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The matter arose when on today's Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough ripped Hillary's hypocrisy on Face the Nation yesterday for criticizing Republicans who question Obama's religion, "when it all started with her and her campaign passing things around in the [2008] Democratic primary." When Steve Rattner asked Heilemann, in his role as inside-campaign-baseball expert, to confirm whether Joe's allegation was true, Heilemann tersely said "it was the case."
I, and perhaps you too, owe thanks to the selfless people who wade through the Partisan Media Shill nonsense every day of the week, to winnow out the real news. I couldn't do what they do.


56 posted on 09/21/2015 8:01:14 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: maggief; Liz; ETL

Isn’t there an interview while he was a senator answering questions about his youth?


57 posted on 09/21/2015 8:11:34 AM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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To: McGruff

She has to respond that way. Her pardon is on the line

They were expecting Bush and company to go along instead we the people are supporting and helping The Donald stir the pot so the shiite floats to the top


58 posted on 09/21/2015 8:18:20 AM PDT by hoosiermama (If Obama canÂ’t convince Americans heÂ’s not a moslem then it certainly isnÂ’t TrumpÂ’s job to do s)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hillary was probably the person behind the ‘Muslim’ question at the Trump rally... She plays dirty.


59 posted on 09/21/2015 8:18:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: McGruff

Huma must have tweeted that about Donald Trump....
Hillary is too stupid to figure out how to tweet


60 posted on 09/21/2015 8:25:07 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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