Since this is Bash Barack Obama Week here at Attytood, one more thing: He really should visit a mosque, sooner rather than later, and -- in a bit of nobody-asked-me advice from an old poly-sci major -- probably in Michigan, the swing state with the largest Islamic population.
But one thing that's weird about the converage, including the prominent story in today's New York Times, is how come nobody is calling for John McCain to visit a mosque during the campaign, especially since he was the candidate who told Beliefnet that America should have a Christian president?
Remember, though, that political pandering to the Muslim-American community tends to be pretty meaningless. No candidate has ever pandered more for their votes...than George W. Bush, who promised in 2000 to end the use of "secret evidence" against Arab immigrants, received hundreds of thousands of Arab-American votes, and then became the President of Gitmo.
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Will is now the expert on ALLTHINGSISLAMIC. I guess that came with his poli sci diploma. More importantly, Murray from Mayfair has called on Obama to visit Alaska, the swing state with the largest Eskimo Population.
Bash Barack? How about taking a whack at his followers and supporters! Nikita Khrushchev once said that we (meaning the international Communist movement) would take the United States without firing a shot - from within. Now we have a MUSLIM COMMUNIST about to ascend to our highest office. People for Obama have just got to be dumber than dirt!
Sadly, this is another issue where Obama will dissapoint his supporters. For all his talk of being a new kind of politician, he has no intention of putting himself at risk on behalf of the muslim community. ----- It is worth noting, Will, that Obama has run a far more agressivly Christian campaign than McCain has, or ever will. You will never see McCain putting out mailers wherein he pledges to "do God's work" as president. I joined liberals in their discomfort when Bush made such appeals. Unfortunatly I seem to be alone in finding it equally creepy coming from Obama.
This is yet another issue on which Obama will disappoint his supporters. For all his talk about a new kind of politics, he will never put himself on the line for the Muslim community. ----- It is worth noting, too, that Obama has one a far more agressivley Christian campaign than McCain has or ever will. You will never see McCain sending out fliers pledging to “do G*od’s work” as Obama has. I joined liberals in their discomfort when Bush spoke to often about his faith as if it was a prereq for the presidency. I am sad to see that I am mostly alone in finding Obama’s appeals just as creepy.
Sorry for the double post. I thought that "God" might be screened.
:People for Obama have just got to be dumber than dirt!...: Even if he loses, no doubt he'll get close to 1/2 the American vote. Once again, Georgie shows his contempt for the American people.
The Slimes article mentions Keith Ellison. The same anti-Semitic Keith Ellison who was the keynote speaker at an event sponsored by the Minnesota chapter of Muslim America Society, at the same time the organization had on its website statements calling for the murder of Jews? (americansagainsthate.org/MAS_Statements.htm) The same Keith Elliso who compared Sept. 11 to the burning of the Reichstag “It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted. The fact is that I’m not saying [Sept. 11] was a [U.S.] plan, or anything like that because, you know, that’s how they put you in the nut-ball box — dismiss you.” (Source: Star Tribune, July 9, 2007). Funny, no mention of this creep's behavior by the Slimes.
Funny, sloboat. Christian preachers blame 9/11 and Katrina and gays, and nary a word from you. But a MUSLIM. A MUSLIM. That's right, a MUSLIM gets elected to office, and you're on it day and night. Gee, wonder what that's about? Here, chew on this, sloboat: "Mr. Speaker, today I voted in favor of House Resolution 951 to condemn rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel and the death and fear those attacks have caused. These rocket attacks must be condemned, and they must be stopped. I’ve been to Sderot, and I have seen how these rocket attacks cause fear and suffering among the people there, where it is extremely difficult to carry on anything approaching a normal life. The residents of Sderot and now Ashkelon face a daily barrage of rockets, and that is intolerable. Terrorists are bombing citizens, not soldiers. There is nothing in Islam to justify hurting innocent civilians. Bombers cannot use religion to justify what they’re doing, and I condemn it."
"Now we have a MUSLIM COMMUNIST about to ascend to our highest office. People for Obama have just got to be dumber than dirt!" ----- You can't make this sh*t up... bon -- the mailer in question says "My faith teaches me that I can sit and church and pray all I want, but I won't be fulfilling God's will unless I go out and do the Lord's work." While Obama has certainly been more openly religious than most dem candidates, it's not the same as GOPs using the same language. When Obama says "the Lord's work", it isn't code for anti-abortionism, ineffective abstinence-only education, narrowing the separation between church and state, etc. That's why there isn't the same concern.
Anybody who actually believes Obama is a "MUSLIM COMMUNIST" does not have enough sense to come in out of the rain, let alone the intelligence to actually vote.
One thing is for sure: We will be electing a christian president. There are no Muslims or people of any other religion running. Get that into your heads.
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