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White House on Trump 'Muslim' Comments: 'Is Anyone Really Surprised?'
ABC News ^ | September 18, 2015 | John Parkinson and Alexander Mallin

Posted on 09/18/2015 11:48:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said today that nobody should be surprised to hear allegations that President Obama is a Muslim, as suggested by an audience member at a Donald Trump rally on Thursday night.

"Is anybody really surprised this happened at a Donald Trump rally?" Earnest told reporters. "Anybody paying attention to Republican politics isn’t surprised. Offensive views are part of Trump’s base."

Earnest said it was “too bad” that Trump didn’t condemn the questioner as Sen. John McCain had done during the 2008 presidential campaign seven years ago, contending that priority of every Republican candidate is to capture some of Trump’s base.

"Those are the priorities of today’s Republican party and will continue to be until some on in Republican party stands up with courage," Earnest said.

Earnest also told reporters that there is “no evidence” that there are Muslim terrorist training camps in the United States, another question offered up by the unidentified audience member....

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TOPICS: New York; Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; gop; islam; mccain; muslims; newyork; obama; terrorism; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is why we absolutely despise Democrats. They don’t even pretend that they want to share this land with us. The president’s press secretary publicly, officially dismisses a huge chunk of the people.


41 posted on 09/19/2015 3:56:27 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Darksheare
"So they’re blaming Trump for comments made by a third party?

Lol.

Hey! It's all our new age marketers of "yellow journalism" have got at this time.

42 posted on 09/19/2015 3:58:26 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama outed himself as a Muslim when he said to Steffy..”it’s true, McCain has not made an issue of my Muslim faith...” WHY would McCain make an issue if he was a Christian?? If you listen to the clip, you will get it.


43 posted on 09/19/2015 4:09:18 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Christians do not celebrate Ramadan or recite the islamic creed in arabic


44 posted on 09/19/2015 4:22:37 AM PDT by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Barack Obama is not a Muslim. Certainly not a true believer. His support for gays disqualifies him to be a follower of the Koran.

He bashes and distorts Christianity. His support for abortion puts him at odds with nearly all world religions.

At best, Barack Obama is an anti-theist, possibly a closet atheist.

Judging his actions and not his words, Barack favors Iran above all other countries. If we must say that he IS something, then we must conclude he is an anti-theist Persian. Or perhaps a secular Persian. Or an atheist Persian.

AND WORST OF ALL, HE IS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.


45 posted on 09/19/2015 4:25:55 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Earnest said today that nobody should be surprised"

After all, Hussein, himself, has said more than once.

My Muslim Faith

46 posted on 09/19/2015 4:32:23 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

Trump released a statement to The Washington Post defending his comments.

“The media wants to make this issue about Obama,” he told the Post. “The bigger issue is that Obama is waging a war against Christians in this country. Their religious liberty is at stake.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-just-dodged-a-question-that-called-obama-a-muslim-2015-9?op=1


47 posted on 09/19/2015 4:39:28 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another mis-calculation.

People believe what the guy had to say.

+2

The left and right circled the wagons to protect the groupthinkers from questioning their current assumptions. Nothing more.

Trump was not the target of the braying. Stupic American’s were.


48 posted on 09/19/2015 4:45:18 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

> Earnest said it was “too bad” that Trump didn’t condemn the questioner as Sen. John McCain had done during the 2008 presidential campaign seven years ago, contending that priority of every Republican candidate is to capture some of Trump’s base.

You have to be pretty stupid not to realize your own boss is a Muslim with the huge mountain of information out there about him. I think he’s actually both a Muslim and a Satanist myself; in reality they are the same.


49 posted on 09/19/2015 4:46:58 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: TigersEye

Well done.
Bookmarked.


50 posted on 09/19/2015 4:48:47 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: TigersEye

bttt


51 posted on 09/19/2015 4:53:10 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: TigersEye

Needs to be a sticky. The other version though very detailed is just too much to absorb and comprehend. The intelligence analyst side of me much prefers bulletpoint lists and relationship diagrams.


52 posted on 09/19/2015 4:57:57 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Is anybody really surprised this happened at a Donald Trump rally?" Earnest told reporters. "Anybody paying attention to Republican politics isn’t surprised. Offensive views are part of Trump’s base."

What? Someone at a Trump event calls Obama a Muslim. And Obama's press secretary thinks being Muslim is offensive?

53 posted on 09/19/2015 5:04:22 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s fight the smears website in 2008 claimed he was a lifelong Christian. Even he says that he came to Jesus late in life and that it was when he attended the racist hate rallies of former muslim Jeremiah Wright (for 20 years).

If Osama Bin Laden isn’t REALLY muslim (yet Barack gave him a taxpayer funded Islamic ceremony before his burial at sea) then Barry O’KillAllTheChildrenAndSodomizeTheArmy isn’t really Christian

FUBO


54 posted on 09/19/2015 5:05:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: Rodney Dangerfield

Funny how even dead Fred Phelps (D-KGB) gets more press than Jeremiah Wright (who’s slipped into obscurity since 2009).


55 posted on 09/19/2015 5:06:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: kaehurowing

Where is ANY evidence that Barry is a Christian?

Anyone seen his baptism certificate?


56 posted on 09/19/2015 5:08:10 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: puppypusher

> The only thing I’m surprised with is Obama hasn’t come out and admitted publicly that he is a Muslim.We know he is,so why hide it.

Because everything will finally make sense and the American people would realize he is orchestrating an invasion of our country with theintention if handing it over to foreign powers.


57 posted on 09/19/2015 5:08:12 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: wayoverontheright

Barack is a Secular Humanist Atheist but he has a hard on for Islmaic theocratic rule around the world. He was raised to embrace it.


58 posted on 09/19/2015 5:09:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Will Bernie Sanders run as an Independent if he does not get the nomination of the Democrat Party?)
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To: kaehurowing
Where is the evidence Obama is not a Muslim?

Egg-zackly.

At no time in his hissy-schpiel did Earnest actually deny that O'Bumbles was a mooselimb.

Ergo ... confirmation by omission.

59 posted on 09/19/2015 5:20:06 AM PDT by woofer
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To: Kirkwood
Calling someone a Muslim is offensive. Wonder why?

Exactly!

60 posted on 09/19/2015 5:28:27 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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