Posted on 02/27/2008 3:18:31 PM PST by SmithL
(AP) -- For Barack Obama, it is an ember that he has doused time and again, only to see it flicker anew: links to Islam fanned by false rumors, innuendo and association.
Obama and his campaign reacted strongly this week when a photo of him in Kenyan tribal garb began spreading on the Internet. And the praise he received Sunday from Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan prompted pointed questions — during Tuesday night's presidential debate and also in a private meeting over the weekend with Jewish leaders in Cleveland.
During the debate, Obama repeated his denunciation of Farrakhan's views, which have included numerous anti-Semitic comments. And, after being pressed, he rejected Farrakhan's support in the presidential race.
The Democratic candidate says repeatedly that he's a Christian who took the oath of office on a family Bible. Yet on the Internet and on talk radio — and in a campaign introduction for John McCain this week — he is often depicted, falsely, as a Muslim with shadowy ties and his middle name, Hussein, is emphasized as a reminder of Iraq's former leader.
"If anyone is still puzzled about the facts, in fact I have never been a Muslim," he told the Jewish leaders in Cleveland, according to a transcript of the private session.
The photo of Obama wearing Kenyan tribal raiments — taken by an Associated Press photographer during his visit in 2006 to the country where his father was born — resurfaced on the Internet amid unsubstantiated claims that it was being circulated by members of Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign. Clinton and her aides said they had nothing to do with it. The Obama campaign accused them of "shameful, offensive fear-mongering."
On Tuesday Republican candidate McCain denounced the introduction he got in Cincinnati that criticized Obama in vivid terms.
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If this had been about a Republican, the headline would read:
Suspected terrorist continues to deny Islamic ties!
I got my first email chain-letter today.
Any Muslim that converts to Christianity change their names to Christian names such as Joseph, Peter, Mary...etc.
You show me someone with the name Barak Hussein Obama and I’ll show you someone who’s true to their faith, Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_name
When in doubt, vote him out.
This name business is a wash, but on the exchange about Al Queda in Iraq McCain has to counter repeatedly and force the American people to hear his point.
“Links?”
That’s racist!
When he rules, it will be 100% hardcore leftist.
Obamahu Akhbar!
Will there be that nagging little doubt? That’s all it will take.
correction..you are not an infidel, you are an apostate, WORSE than an infidel..
Calypso Lewie is his Bro.
I guarantee you the person who wrote this headline believes with every fiber of his or her being that the main stream media is unbiased and objective.
His dad was Islamic, and he attended an Islamic school. So I guess he has some links to Islam. He may well have made an authentic change in his beliefs.
Liberals tell us that all white men are morally responsible for slavery, whether or not it was perpetrated by their individual ancestors-it’s an immutable genetic relationship. By their own reasoning, Obama is irretrievably guilty of the crimes of Muslims, whether they were committed recently or centuries ago.
Ooops! But still worthy of eliminating.
Things are not always as they seem.
There are as many devils sitting on churchpews as christians, and maybe more. The bible says “Satan comes as an angel of light”.
That doesn’t make BO anything, but it pays to research, listen carefully and make sure we know what we are getting. The way he got his house in Chicago, the plot from Resco’s wife, his church website and their loyalty to Africa not America, and a lot of praise from the Muslims is going to be questioned.
If he’s not that too will come out, but cranking up the heat will do for him what it did for Hillary.
Per last night's debate between obama and hillary (tuesday feb 26,'08), it finally became public that louis farrakhan and obama's pastor are buddy buddies and have traveled to libya to meet with Muammar al-Qaddafi for "whatever".
Does Obama's church support racism and anti-semitism?
THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM
http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html
Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System, written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee, chaired by the late Vallmer Jordan in 1981.
These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They consist of the followingconcepts:
1. Commitment to God. “The God of our weary years” will give us the strength to give up prayerful passivism and become Black Christian Activists, soldiers for Black freedom and the dignity of all humankind.2. Commitment to the Black Community. The highest level of achievement for any Black person must be a contribution of strength and continuity of the Black Community.
3. Commitment to the Black Family. The Black family circle must generate strength, stability and love, despite the uncertainty of externals, because these characteristics are required if the developing person is to withstand warping by our racist competitive society.
Those Blacks who are blessed with membership in a strong family unit must reach out and expand that blessing to the less fortunate.
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education. We must forswear anti-intellectualism. Continued survival demands that each Black person be developed to the utmost of his/her mental potential despite the inadequacies of the formal education process. “Real education” fosters understanding of ourselves as well as every aspect of our environment. Also, it develops within us the ability to fashion concepts and tools for better utilization of our resources, and more effective solutions to our problems. Since the majority of Blacks have been denied such learning, Black Education must include elements that produce high school graduates with marketable skills, a trade or qualifications for apprenticeships, or proper preparation for college.
Basic education for all Blacks should include Mathematics, Science, Logic, General Semantics, Participative Politics, Economics and Finance, and the Care and Nurture of Black minds.
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence. To the extent that we individually reach for, even strain for excellence, we increase, geometrically, the value and resourcefulness of the Black Community. We must recognize the relativity of one’s best; this year’s best can be bettered next year. Such is the language of growth and development. We must seek to excel in every endeavor.
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic. “It is becoming harder to find qualified people to work in Chicago.” Whether this is true or not, it represents one of the many reasons given by businesses and industries for deserting the Chicago area. We must realize that a location with good facilities, adequate transportation and a reputation for producing skilled workers will attract industry. We are in competition with other cities, states and nations for jobs. High productivity must be a goal of the Black workforce.
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect. To accomplish anything worthwhile requires self-discipline. We must be a community of self-disciplined persons if we are to actualize and utilize our own human resources, instead of perpetually submitting to exploitation by others. Self-discipline, coupled with a respect for self, will enable each of us to be an instrument of Black Progress and a model for Black Youth.
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.
Those so identified are separated from the rest of the people by:
- Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another.
- Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.
- Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”
- So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented persons.
9. Pledge to Make the Fruits of All Developing and Acquired Skills Available to the Black Community.10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.
11. Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System.
12. Personal Commitment to Embracement of the Black Value System. To measure the worth and validity of all activity in terms of positive contributions to the general welfare of the Black Community and the Advancement of Black People towards freedom.
And links for anyone interested...
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/obama_daley_chicago_elect/2007/10/11/40228.html
http://www.newsmax.com/insider_report/Troops_Angry_at_Hillary/2007/09/23/35244.html
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