Posted on 06/28/2008 7:59:39 AM PDT by plangent
The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Poring over these early articles on the topic, Allen noticed what she thought was an important pattern. In each instance, someone had posted the articles on the Free Republic Web site, prompting a discussion involving the same handful of people, with several expressing a desire to spread the word about Obama’s supposed faith.
Keeper of the Obama File
Of the file folders that are spread in neat rows across Allen’s desk, only one is bulging. It holds printouts of the reams of conversations about Obama’s religion appearing on Free Republic. Since its start in 1996 by Jim Robinson of Fresno, Calif., the site has grown into a home for discussion of all types — though it is particularly noted for spirited political discussions dominated by conservatives and libertarians. Freepers, as they’re called, converse with a varying degree of transparency. Most remain anonymous.
Allen counted 23 freepers among those engaging in regular discussions about Obama’s religion, and isolated a handful whom she began to suspect as having a role in the e-mail. Sifting through hundreds of postings, she began to piece together their identities. There was “Beckwith,” whom she pegged as a veteran from Boston, old enough to vote for John F. Kennedy, in uniform by 1964, and host of a Web site that devotes considerable space to an “Obama file” that says the senator is “by birth, blood and training, a Muslim.”
Allen found Beckwith discussing the matter in a Jan. 13 clip from a Web-based conservative radio show based in San Diego. In his thick Boston brogue, Beckwith told hosts Jeff Lynch and Mike Howard that Obama’s “relationship to Islam is the big question. When one investigates the background of Obama’s conversion, I can find no record of his baptism.”
Dr Allen, instead of wasting your time tracking people who are engaged in free speech, why didn't you just sit down with Obama and interview him on his complete background and then do a check on what he told you about his background, then report that?!
Or is that just too obvious for a "genius!" You have done nothing to clear the air. And that's unfortunate and amounts to a waste of your time.
We are all back to square 1.
now we did it ..posting stuff from the main stream media on this radical website
Many Islamics believe, due to the definitive nature of that prayer, that anyone who recites it becomes a "Muslim".
All of that aside, by his actions and positions in the IL and US Senates, and by his willful, long-term assocaiations, Obama is marked as the most anti-American and marxist individual to ever gain the nomination of any major party in US history.
"I refuse to turn the United States of America into an Obamanation." - former Hillary Clinton supporter
You don't stop free speech, Danielle. You address it.
Quite the little stalker, isn't she? Good at hunting people down.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
—Adolf Hitler—
Yes, he does believe in deity - it's him. He is Obamessiah, and he answers to himself. Very concerning.
Any one who can think knows the answer (even a “genius” like Allen)...finding out the truth is NOT her agenda. Shutting up people who she doesn’t agree with, shutting up people who mess with HER agenda is the goal.
Dittoes. I've kept a perfectly open mind about the Swift Boat matter but have yet to find any credible refutation. It seems to me if Kerry was slandered or libeled by untrue accusations, he has full access to the court system to defend his "honor," along with virtually unlimited funds to press his legal case. Yet the WaPo piece dismisses the whole issue as a proven smear.
I have no idea whether Obama's a Muslim. I do know he was a 20-year member of a Black Liberation Theology church with a minister who outspokenly hates America. I do know Obama never took public issue with the church's anti-Americanism until it became politically expedient to do so. I do know he's a racist. That's enough for me to vote against him.
I thought Herman Goering said that.
This site attributes Hitler.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/adolf_hitler.html
Sheeesh, my name was not in the article. Oh well. ha.
I don't believe Obama is a Muslim.
My gut feeling is that he's an atheist.
He spent 20 years going to Jeremiah Wright's politicized church because it served his political purposes in his chosen Chicago political niche but I don't believe he has a single religious bone in his body.
I believe he considers religion "the opiate of the masses". Thus, he describes religious people as "clinging to religion".
Precisely. Somehow I doubt Ms. Allen will ever be pursuing an investigation into the lies/deceit regularly spewed at places like DU or The DK.
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