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Obama gaffe reignites Muslim rumor
United Press International ^ | September 08, 2008 | United Press International

Posted on 09/08/2008 9:24:31 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is taking the Chicago Sun-Times to task for reporting on a verbal slip Obama made referring to "my Muslim faith."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; democrats; elections; husseinobama; islam; mohammedanism; muslims; mymuslimfaith; nobama08; obama; obamabiden; obamuslim
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To: Red in Blue PA

Az Willie Brown observed, Dems just don’t know how to play defense. And we’re on the offensive from now till election day.


41 posted on 09/08/2008 9:59:43 AM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Another point. . .Obama is very practiced at wearing a mask. He shows just how 'adept' he is; whereby his facial muscles do not change; eyes do not 'flynch' - but his words betray him as they spill out in a jumble as he tries to make sense of what he just said. In the end; he does not succeed in 'making sense'; and it usually goes unchallenged.

After Stephanopolis corrects Obama; he does not 'betray himself'; but after first five words of 'splainging himself'; an interpreter is necessary. Obama falters and falls - albeit smoothly and effortlessly - to the nonsensical.

(Challenge any Obamafan to tell us what in the world - or 'where' Obama ends up, at the end of his 'correction' re his Muslim Faith.)

42 posted on 09/08/2008 9:59:53 AM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it irretrievably, damns us all. . .)
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To: j_k_l
...you watch, there will be some angry posts saying not to mention this....


43 posted on 09/08/2008 10:00:36 AM PDT by FReepaholic (Palin's hot and she has a birth certificate.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
...this makes our side look like fools without evidence to back up their claims....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMUgNg7aD8M

44 posted on 09/08/2008 10:05:33 AM PDT by FReepaholic (Palin's hot and she has a birth certificate.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
heads will roll.

Obama Akbar! Obama Akbar!

45 posted on 09/08/2008 10:07:51 AM PDT by melancholy (Odrama / Bison, that's the ticket!)
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To: goldfinch

Obama’s campaign site says “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim,”

This is false. He studied the koran and can still recite the Islamic call to prayer in arabic.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/christian

If he was a Christian as a youth (which is the claim they try to make when they point out it was a Catholic school) who baptised him and when?

He is free to pick any faith, he shouldn’t lie to the public about it.


46 posted on 09/08/2008 10:09:31 AM PDT by weegee (Better to support a pitbull in lipstick than to be in a party that is putting lipstick on a pig.)
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To: Wilder Effect
The Cabinet under Barry Soetoro


47 posted on 09/08/2008 10:09:39 AM PDT by Foolsgold ("We live in the greatest country in the world and I am going to change it" Barry O'boomarang 2008)
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To: goldfinch
We should take the high road on this one.

I thoroughly disagree on this one, gf. We should be looking for what is true about this unknown man who is so close to becoming our president.

Every bit of evidence should be weighed.

That should include his joining a radical liberal Christian denomination, his muslim background, his offering of a muslim day in his legislative district, his association to Ayers, etc.

In short, everything is fair game.

48 posted on 09/08/2008 10:10:50 AM PDT by xzins (ZerObama: zero executive, military, or international experience)
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To: edcoil
The coverage is what bothers me, I have never slipped and called myself Jewish.

Good point. Certain characteristics are so fundamental to who we are that it is hard to understand how we'd goof on them.

I don't mean to make an analogy that sounds flippant by comparison, but I've never slipped and said I post at DU or Kos.

49 posted on 09/08/2008 10:16:53 AM PDT by freespirited
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To: Foolsgold

To add to your wonderful list:

Secretary of DEM Affairs John Edwards

Secretary of Thuggery Affairs Michelle Obama aka Omama

Secretary of Lies Bill Clinton

Secretary of Thighs Hillary Clinton

Secretary of Sexual Affairs Madona

Secretary of Propaganda Michael Moore


50 posted on 09/08/2008 10:18:34 AM PDT by melancholy (Odrama / Bison, that's the ticket!)
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To: Frank_Discussion

Hmmm....who should I believe?

The 0messiah or my own lying eyes and ears?

Decisions, decisions.

[Freud wept]


51 posted on 09/08/2008 10:21:07 AM PDT by Salamander (Obama hates uppity women.)
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To: econjack
"You're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith," Obama said before Stephanopoulos corrected him.

These "gaffes" should certainly be taken full advantage of. The Democrats have excoriated Republicans since Quayle over these things. Barry can't talk more than a minute without putting his foot in his mouth and Biden is just as bad. Absofreakinglutely take advantage of it.

The interesting thing here is that if you remove what he said (Muslim) and replace it with Christian, the statement makes no sense. Why would McCain come after Barry because of his Christian faith? And it's not taken out of context because Stephanopoulos corrects him.

52 posted on 09/08/2008 10:23:03 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Amazing how Obama, Rangell, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Now that 0bama has trotted out his muslim faith it makes it fair game now ,,,,, right ???


53 posted on 09/08/2008 10:27:10 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 ( S.P.E.C.I A.L.= Sarah Palin's Executive Credentials Intimidate Angry Liberals)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It was interesting to see how quickly George Steponallofus corrected BO in the interview.


54 posted on 09/08/2008 10:27:34 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (If the election were today, Obama would win.........in Europe.)
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To: goldfinch

The government cannot establish a religion....but we have the right to comment on someone else’s religion.....please do not attempt to stop us from doing so.........

Hussein Obama does not act like a Christian and the Church he has gone to for 20 years doesn’t seem to be a Christian Church to me...........

I believe he is a Muslim in hiding to benefit himself politically................and there is nothing wrong with our discussing it openingly.........


55 posted on 09/08/2008 10:32:54 AM PDT by Ecliptic
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To: goldfinch

Are you on the right page ??? the Daily Kos is the cave where the moonbats hang out .

Then I asked myself ,,, would the Dims take the high road ?


56 posted on 09/08/2008 10:36:07 AM PDT by lionheart 247365 ( S.P.E.C.I A.L.= Sarah Palin's Executive Credentials Intimidate Angry Liberals)
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To: Ecliptic

I am a Christian.....I would NEVER make a statement like: My Catholic faith or My Jewish Faith..........people just wouldn’t do it as a slip..........the truth came out............


57 posted on 09/08/2008 10:41:12 AM PDT by Ecliptic
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Barack Obama had a Muslim father, which as far as Islam is concerned makes him a Muslim for life, any deviation from which brings an automatic death penalty. He spent at least four of his most formative years learning the Koran in Arabic at a madrassa in Indonesia. Given the upbringing, to call what he said in that tape a potential Freudian slip, even out of context, is entirely appropriate. This is reinforced by three observations: First, his 20-year membership in Jeremiah Wright's racist church was admittedly for political, not religious reasons (per his own writing and the Saul Alinsky model). Second, it is permitted for a Muslim to lie and/or pretend conversion as long as it is done for the faith, while a true conversion, particularly to Judeo-Christianity, brings an automatic death sentence. Finally, and as confirmation of the prior, to my knowledge, no fatwa against Barack Obama for his supposed conversion to Christianity has been issued by any Muslim cleric on earth, no matter how radical, despite his public profession to be a Christian (his many close associations with prominent black Muslims notwithstanding). Indeed, he was endorsed today by Mr. Ahmadinejad.
58 posted on 09/08/2008 10:42:45 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Gaffe?

I see the work of the Almighty allowing Hussein to speak the truth for one second of his miserable lying life.


59 posted on 09/08/2008 11:13:52 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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To: j_k_l

Yeah, I don’t get the Freepers here who defend Obama, either and never want his Muslim faith mentioned.

Are they fifth columnists or som’n?


60 posted on 09/08/2008 11:15:38 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine ("There is no civility, only politics.")
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