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Obama's Grandmother Changes Islam Story
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Posted on 03/15/2008 4:00:54 PM PDT by stickman20089

Yesterday’s edition of USA Today had a story about Barack Obama’s grandmother in Kenya, in which she slams the Clinton campaign for circulating photos of Obama in Muslim garb—and then states that she is a Christian: Obama’s grandma slams ‘untruths’.

Obama’s grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said.

“In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents,” she said. She, too, is a Christian.

Just one little problem with this statement.

In April of last year, Sarah Hussein Obama told the New York Times she is a devout Muslim.

Sarah Hussein Obama, who is his stepgrandmother but whom Mr. Obama calls his grandmother, still rises at 5 a.m. to pray before tending to her crops and the three orphans she has taken in.

“I am a strong believer of the Islamic faith,” Ms. Obama, 85, said in a recent interview in Kenya.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hussein; husseinobama; kenya; muslim; nobama; obama; obamafamily; somalielder
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I care.


21 posted on 03/15/2008 4:22:00 PM PDT by bfree (liberalism is the enemy of freedom!!!)
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To: RepublitarianRoger2

Exactly. Liars often have difficulty remembering their lies.
They always seem to get riled when they are caught.


22 posted on 03/15/2008 4:23:06 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: stickman20089
Sarah Hussein Obama, who is his stepgrandmother but whom Mr. Obama calls his grandmother

Is this the grandmother he's met once, and was the grandfathers 3 or 4th wife?

23 posted on 03/15/2008 4:23:19 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Here come the Hawks)
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To: bfree

Of coarse you do.
You are an agent of division. ;-p


24 posted on 03/15/2008 4:25:05 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: stickman20089

Maybe she is an Islamic Christian


25 posted on 03/15/2008 4:27:03 PM PDT by woofie
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To: KingJaja

Thanks for joining Frepper FEB 20, 2008.


26 posted on 03/15/2008 4:29:13 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: stickman20089

bump


27 posted on 03/15/2008 4:29:52 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Chief_Joe

where do you think its coming from? I sure have wondered about this church deal ...that has definately caught fire


28 posted on 03/15/2008 4:32:16 PM PDT by woofie
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To: nuconvert

Looks like Obama’s Chickens are coming home to roost


29 posted on 03/15/2008 4:32:51 PM PDT by Nashvegas
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To: stickman20089

Whoa...

This could get her in some serious trouble.


30 posted on 03/15/2008 4:33:30 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: stickman20089
Gotcha journalism at its worst, taking advantage of a grandmother, a disabled citizen, a confused victim of Alzheimer's. Let every vote count, give her a mail-in ballot!
31 posted on 03/15/2008 4:33:59 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: Shermy
"The Christian comment was just Pravda/NYTimes info management."

The April 30th, 2007 New York Times story quotes her as saying she is a Muslim. Here's the link:

Click Here

The USA Today story from March 5th, 2008 reports her as being Catholic, but it isn't in quotes. The USA Today story is by an AP reporter.

32 posted on 03/15/2008 4:34:35 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: stickman20089

Looks like lying is a family trait.


33 posted on 03/15/2008 4:36:05 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: mass55th

I’m sorry for defaming the NYTimes, when it was AP...this time.

Really, people need to read news carefully. Especially suspicious: when someone is quoted, then attributed something without quotes.


34 posted on 03/15/2008 4:36:47 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: nuconvert
"the Obamas need to try to keep their stories straight. "

They're democrats; that's how they do things.

35 posted on 03/15/2008 4:37:59 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: stickman20089
This 85 year old woman did not change her story on her own.

Somebody had to tell her to change her story and it was not Obammy’s campaign manager. It was Obammy, himself.

And if he's telling her to change her story, I'm pretty sure he's changed his own story.

36 posted on 03/15/2008 4:40:33 PM PDT by ryan71
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To: woofie

Do you think it’s at least a little absurd that people on this site are actually advocating for McClain and Hillary now? Some are anybody but Obama, but Hillary and McClain are far more dangerous to me.


37 posted on 03/15/2008 4:43:50 PM PDT by Chief_Joe (From where the sun now sits, I will fight on -FOREVER!!!)
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To: stickman20089
Shouldn't BHO let his dear old forgetful granny know that apostasy is considered an offense punishable by death?

That is, according to the Religion Of Peace..........

38 posted on 03/15/2008 4:44:01 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Unleash the Dogs of War as a Minority, or perish as a party.)
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To: spunkets
A Story Change You Can Believe In.
39 posted on 03/15/2008 4:44:12 PM PDT by joshhiggins
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To: Thumper1960

forgetful granny needs to join the crazy uncle up in the attic


40 posted on 03/15/2008 4:47:24 PM PDT by TN Conserative
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