When you put a church on as a cover, not knowing what the black church is to start with, it’s easy to cut a pastor, a church loose... cause you weren’t a Christian to start with. I’ve only told folks of the below and more for a year.
Case in point:
Snip:
“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Moreover, Mr. Obama’s own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn’t sure if his grandfather’s two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite. (O.K., maybe Mr. Obama should just give up on Alabama.)
Our biggest mistake since World War II has been a lack of sensitivity to other people’s nationalism, from Vietnam to Iraq. Perhaps as a result of his background, Mr. Obama has been unusually sensitive to such issues and to the need to project respect rather than arrogance. He has consistently shown great instincts.
http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/03/nicholas-d-kristof-obama-man-of-world.html
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Say it with me... taqiyya. Every lie is divine to take steps establishing the caliphate, Allah is the greatest of all plotters.
(All I say is, hurry up Tuesday and nominate him, it’s on)