01-22-2007, 08:30 PM
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And so it goes........
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Originally Posted by bigballin2987
It's possible, but times are different. Back when politicians and civil rights leaders were being assasinated, or attempted upon, there were crimes like that going on all over the United States. There are very few stories of Muslims being actually harmed by people within the United States.
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Hate to play the devils advocate here but Obama isn't a muslim, he's a christian. Actually, he is a member of Trinity UCC in Illinois. To say that he's a muslim is ignorant.......and for the most part lazy, because obviously you aren't looking very far into the story.
FWIW, most of this muslim [censored] is being cooked up the the right......typical.
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Hillary, Obama and Anonymous Sources
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 22, 2007; 7:38 AM
Days after Barack Obama jumped into the presidential sweepstakes, he was hit with a thinly sourced story from his past--39 years in his past, to be exact.
The allegation, by a conservative magazine, raised questions about whether the Illinois senator had been schooled in Islamic radicalism when he was all of 6 years old.
Insight, a magazine owned by the Washington Times, cited unnamed sources in saying that young Barack attended a madrassah, or Muslim religious school, in Indonesia. In his 1995 autobiography, Obama said his Indonesian stepfather had sent him to a "predominantly Muslim school" in Jakarta, after two years in a Catholic school -- but Insight goes further in saying it was a madrassah and that Obama was raised as a Muslim.
Fox News picked up the Insight charge on two of its programs, playing up an angle involving Hillary Clinton. The magazine, citing only unnamed sources, said that researchers "connected" to the New York senator were allegedly spreading the information about her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The New York Post, which, like Fox, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, also picked up the article, with the headline: " 'OSAMA' MUD FLIES AT OBAMA."
Thus, in the first media controversy of the 2008 campaign, two of the leading candidates find themselves forced to respond to allegations lacking a single named source.
"The allegations are completely false," says Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs. "To publish this sort of trash without any documentation is surprising, but for Fox to repeat something so false, not once, but many times is appallingly irresponsible. This is exactly the type of slash-and-burn politics the American people are sick and tired of." Obama, aides note, is a Christian and belongs to a Chicago church.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041100587.html
Anyone else see irony in the fact that Fox and NY Post were quick to jump on this story with little (if any) sources, when they lambasted the people who reported on Bush's National Guard story, or Rathergate? You can't have it both ways here fellas........
Last edited by daddyphatsacs; 01-22-2007 at 08:37 PM.
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