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Why Obama Is Smart To Identify As a Christian

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Obama is running Spanish commercials in Nevada which identify him as a Christian.  It’s smart politics, very smart.  And it’s the only thing he can do if he wants to win.

He’s already been attacked by the Republican Noise Machine as “Barack Hussein Obama” with implications that he’s Muslim. While CNN may have debunked one of the falsehoods, it is clear that the GOP will hammer this false meme over and over until enough low-information voters think it’s true.

He can’t cede one inch to the Noise Machine on this. So he’s gotta run those ads proclaiming he’s a Christian.

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  1. I had not thought about this point. I think my liberal separation-of-church-and-state reflex caused me to overlook it. Thank you for pointing it out.

    • Personally, I think a person’s beside the point of whether they can do the job well.  And while Obama’s not my top choice (I wish his plan would actually mandate every American citizen got health insurance the way Edwards’ plan does), it does us no good to let the usual suspects (the Noise Machine and the MSM institutions who take their cues from it) harm any of our candidates with B.S.

    • The radio ads saying Obama is Christian?  Or the Republicans implying that Obama is Muslim? 

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      You do realize that not everyone who thinks Obama is unready to be president is affiliated with Hillary Clinton, right?

      • Includes this:

        Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam…

        Insight attributed the information in its article to an unnamed source, who said it was discovered by “researchers connected to Senator Clinton.” A spokesman for Clinton, who is also weighing a White House bid, denied that the campaign was the source of the Obama claim…

        Insight stood by its story in a response posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.

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        I was referring to this & wondering whether there was any truth to the HRC campaign being the source.  If so, this would be even uglier campaigning than the mild insinuations we all discussed yesterday. 

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        If I recall correctly, the Washington Times is owned by the Unification Church, and the paper’s editorial independence has been questioned, so who knows?

    • madrassa smear if that is what you are referring to.  Even Obama’s camp has said she is not involved.

        • Look it up on their website.  Honestly, this is a baseless smear.  But, feel free to perpetuate it.

          • They report that Insight Magazine is the only source for the claim that the HRC campaign planted the smear.  And as I’ve noted, Insight Magazine is a questionable source.  So, who knows? 

            • “who know’s”, it’s always best to stay away from such aligations.  What do you say?

            • That you’re really Michael Jackson.  Which I’m positive of.  So who knows, right?  No countervailing evidence..

            • …and her South America trip last year was a mission to abort the fetus!

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              Do you have a source that disproves that? No, didn’t think so.

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              So, who knows?

    • …my opinion of Obama went down more than a few notches when he decided to wear his religion–not his faith, but his religion–on his sleeve.

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      What did Jesus tell us about praying in private, not in public?  (Paraphrase, of course)

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