Freudian Slip - "My Muslim faith..." - Obama

NBC | 9-7-2008 | NBC

[smith288]

Barry Obama has slipped on his own faith by saying "John McCain has not... talked about... My muslim faith"

Of which Stephanopolous carried the water and corrected him by saying "Christian faith".

I think this is a VERY telling freudian slip by Barrack.

[syriacus]

thanks for posting....how do we know the english translation is correct?

I'm sure we will hear otherwise, if it isn't.

[winner3000]

I have not read all the posts...but for God’s sake, the guy is a sitting duck on the issues. Why do we need to attack him on this distraction?

[chainsaw]

The liberals are starting to show up in full force on youtube from the looks of it trying to say the clip was edited or that he was taken out of context etc etc etc...

They are here on FR too. But I heard what I heard, and the correction by Steponallofus. And the acknowledgment of the freudian Slip by the man with three muslim names.

[Freedom_is_not_Free2]

GS: You mention your Christian faith, yesterday you took off after the repbs for suggesting your Muslim connections. Just a few mins ago, Rick Davis, umm.. John McCain’s campaign manager said they’ve never done that, this is a false and cynical attempt to play victim.
BO: You.. you.. you know what? I.. I... I mean, these guys love to throw a rock and.. and... and hide.. hide their hand the ...
GS: The McCain campaign has never suggested you have Muslim connections.
BO: No.. no.. no... but.. but.. but the, I don’t think that when you look at what is being promulgated, on Fox news let’s say, and Republican commentators who are closely aligned to these folks
GS: but John mccain said thats wrong
BO: Well look.....listen, you and I both know, the minute that Gov. Palin was...uh... was ...uh... forced to talk about her daughter, I immediately said, thats off limits
GS: John Mccain said the same thing about a question about your faith
BO: ....and... and ...and what was the first thing the McCain campaign came out and did. They said...(voice change) ...’look..these liberal blogs.......that support Obama (laugh) are out there attacking Gov. Palin.
BO: I... I...e...Lets not play games, what I was suggesting...you’re absolutely right that John McCain has not... uh... talked about my Muslim faith and you’re absolutely right that has not come...
GS: Your Christian faith
BO: My Christian faith and.............well, what I’m saying is he hasn’t suggested that I’m that I’m a Muslim.....and I think that his uh.. his campaign.. uh... upper echelons have not either either. What I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I ‘m not... uhhh...who I say I am when it comes to my faith. Something which I find deeply offensive and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
Partial transcript from 9/7/08 interview with George Stephanopolis

[StAntKnee]

Nope. You’re seeing it with your heart, not your eyes.

Stepontopofus tried to correct him, as I said I thought, but George was wrong, not O, because O wasn’t trying to say “my Christian faith.”

Ya know, I hope you’re proven right in your hopeful interpretation, but I think I have a right to my own take. As I saw it, he misspoke. Probably meant “John McCain hasn’t attacked me with accusations of my being of the Muslim faith.”

Look, I agree, if it were Palin or JSMc with that kind of gaffe, it’d be all over the news forEVER. Remember the 100 years in Iraq, thing.

Like you, I’d be very surprised if this gets ANY play in the MSM. Only talk radio and conservative blogs. And if they’re honest about it, they’ll allude to the benign interpretations and leave the final judgment to people like you and me. You see it one way. I see it differently. No agenda.

More to the point, I think O is blundering more often because he’s shaken by the sudden reversals beginning with Sarah. The military thing from the same interview is an obamanation. And the continual claim that running a campaign is CEO experience. And referring to Sarah’s experience as a mayor (not even acknowledging she’s a sitting governor). And “the things I’ve learned as president.” Dumb things. But not deal busters by themselves. Taken together, though, including the Muslim faith remark, it’s a sign of a rattled candidate.

Can we agree to disagree?

[rfp1234]

OOOOOOOOps. Now the Drive-by Media will spend the next two weeks carrying this story as front-page news, just like they did with “Macaca”.[/redundant sarcasm]

[StAntKnee]

Thanks for taking time to transcribe/post the transcript. It looks very bad in print. The guy is not the genius he gets credit for. And the stammers. Wow!

I do think it’ll get a lot of play among some undecideds.

Rush and Sean and Laura will have a field day. We’ll all laugh.

And then it’ll be gone. That’s what I think. Guy might even BE a mooslm. I’m not even denying that possibility. But this is a lot of rant (fun ran, I admit, and I’ve read every post). But not a deal-buster as it would be if it came out in a memo by him.

That’s all I’m saying.

[GregoTX]

"Context: Stephanopoulos was asking about Obama saying yesterday Republicans are saying he's a Muslim and the McCain campaign denying that they are doing that. After the transcribed exchange Obama acknowledged the 'upper echelons' of the McCain campaign were not doing that but he accused others in the Republican party of doing so. "

Thanks for posting the context. I think criticizing BHO for a slip of the tongue is a mistake. I sure get upset at all the times the media go nuts when President Bush made a slip of the tongue.
BHO is a Marxist, a liar, and a phoney, there are piles of material to criticize him over concerning things he has intentionally said and done.

[GregoTX]

"Context: Stephanopoulos was asking about Obama saying yesterday Republicans are saying he's a Muslim and the McCain campaign denying that they are doing that. After the transcribed exchange Obama acknowledged the 'upper echelons' of the McCain campaign were not doing that but he accused others in the Republican party of doing so. "

Thanks for posting the context. I think criticizing BHO for a slip of the tongue is a mistake. I sure get upset at all the times the media go nuts when President Bush made a slip of the tongue.
BHO is a Marxist, a liar, and a phoney, there are piles of material to criticize him over concerning things he has intentionally said and done.

[cgk]

BTTT

[cgk]

BHO is his own sleeper cell.

[bricklayer]

“Can we agree to disagree?”

You bet!

Have a good week.

[PA-RIVER]

That happens to me all the time. I'm Irish Catholic, and I'm always slipping, saying “My Jewish Faith” or “My Buddhist Faith”, so I can understand how he could slip.

SARC/OFF

[modest proposal]

I am surprised he is not arrogant enough to say he is a Muslim and add “and if you don’t like it you are just a closed minded moron”.

I think a lot of people would still support him even if he did.

Pretty bizarre.

[444Flyer]

I’m sure others have said everything that needs to be said regarding this so I will only add...

“”O”OOOOOhhhh YOU ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BUSTED!!!!

[xzins]

Ping.

Do you know the name of Mohammed’s horse who lifted him to heaven?

[Fishrrman]

“Whoah...I hope there’s video of that.

Someone had better grab it before it gets thrown down the memory hole... “

Already done.
Archived and saved in high-quality Quicktime format.

I’m sure others have done the same.

I’m guessing that ABC is _not_ otherwise going to make this clip available to anyone....

- John

[BigSkyVic]

I believe he is the “Manchurian Candidate...”

[ofwaihhbtn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw

[Sacajaweau]

His answer should have been a direct: "I'm a Christian"...and then expound.

He makes the same mistake all the time...anticipating a question and working on the answer before the question is complete.