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To: Red Steel
Or the ABC interview “My Muslim faith....”.

Did you hear that he chose "Renegade" as his Secret Service codename? The word means "traitor" and comes from Spanish as a term for those who deserted Christianity for Islam. Note The Renegado, or The Gentleman of Venice, a play in which a Christian converts to Islam and becomes a pirate.



ren·egade (renə gād′)

noun
  1. a person who abandons one religion for another; apostate
  2. a person who abandons a party, movement, etc. and goes over to the other side; traitor; turncoat

Etymology: Sp renegado, pp. of renegar, to deny < ML renegare < L re-, again + negare, to deny (see negation); the word replaces ME renagat < ML renegatus, pp. of renegare

adjective

of or like a renegade; disloyal

"Renegade" Synonyms/Syn Mod:
disloyal, treacherous, dissident, apostate, heretic, false, rebellious, recreant, deserter, rebel, traitor.

19 posted on 11/13/2008 11:47:27 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

That explains why they didn’t go with Red 1


23 posted on 11/13/2008 11:50:34 PM PST by exhaustedmomma (Way to go BARNEY!! Barney for White House Press Secretary.)
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To: jan in Colorado; Fred Nerks

Is “Renegado” trying to tell us something, I wonder?


25 posted on 11/13/2008 11:52:27 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

Obama chose the appropriate code word then. Obama showing his I’m in your face arrogance?


26 posted on 11/13/2008 11:53:22 PM PST by Red Steel
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