Already by some surveys, 15% of the electorate believes that despite vehement denials from the campaign, intensive investigations by mainstream media organizations, and all evidence to the contrary, Barack Obama is a Muslim.
This kind of irrational belief is fed by an army of online smear merchants and the more innocent but misinformed — or simply duped — group of largely conservative activists who see it as their duty to “expose” Obama as a Muslim to save the United States from. . . something. The cause is hazy
Rick, not sure of your seminal point here.
1) 15% of the electorate believes something…therefore..what?
What percentage of Rev. Wright’s and Rev. Farrakhan’s congregation believe that white US government officials created the AIDS virus to kill them?
What percentage of radical Islamists and “truthers” believe that white US government officials in concert with the Israeli government flew planes into our own buildings?
What percentage of the Koz Kidz and the lunatic fringe leftists believe that the motivation for our campaigns after 9/11 were motivated by “blood for oil”?
So, it seems to me that 85% of the electorate does not believe that Sen. Obama is a practicing Muslim. I count myself among them. Is the article intended to shame that 15% into switching beliefs? I can’t believe that is the intent, which would be deep as a thimble. So, let’s presume that the rest of the above cited quote carries the true intent.
2)Despite vehement denials from the campaign….you mean like Watergate? Clinton/Lewinsky? Oh, well…if the campaign VEHEMENTLY denies it…well, then that’s proof enough. Right?
Look, the premise of your article (such as it appears to be), is that the campaign wants to HIDE Muslim women wearing traditional garb…while they are VEHEMENTLY denying that there is any “connection” to the Muslim world and Sen. Obama. Is it only me, or does that have a tinge of irony contained within it? We should believe them when they VEHEMENTLY deny orchestrating the hiding of his connection to the Muslim world …and the example we give to prove this…. is the lengths to which they engage in the hiding of women who are connected to the Muslim world in his campaign.
“Well, we WOULD hide it for THIS purpose…but not for THAT purpose…we’re too honest for THAT!”
3)…INTENSIVE investigations by the mainstream media…”. Ok, then. As long as they were “INTENSIVE” investigations. You mean like Green Helmet Guy, fauxtography, “fake but accurate” forged documents…that kind of “intensive” investigation?
The Morally Suspect Media is in the bag for Sen. Obama. The latest Rasmussen poll puts the trust factor of deadwood media journalists beneath a convicted flim flam artist.
The MetaStasis Media is dying on the vine and STILL continues to cheat people out of the truth and rape the information stream on issues related to Iraq, the economy, national security…and not least of all…this upcoming election.
Again, is your seminal issue that these 15% of people are being “duped” because they don’t automatically believe the proven liars, cheats, forgerers and intentionally misleading denizens of blatantly biased coverage of this election? There is hardly a single objective observer who blindly believes the deadwood media any longer.
4)So, your point must be that we shouldn’t CARE about whether he WAS a Muslim at any point, or took classes as a boy, etc.
Fair enough. Most of us don’t….by your own calculations…85% of people don’t believe he is now a Muslim.
But your point that it’s a “smear” to suggest that he EVER had ties to the Muslim world…is a bit overheated. I’m not in the slightest convinced that Sen. Obama had zero connection to Muslim teachings. In fact, I think it would be quite odd if that was the case.
Again, his boyhood connections to Muslim teachings aren’t terribly relevant, at least to me, without a further nexus. DENYING them, gives me a reason to look further. It’s the DENIAL…not the boyhood classes that prompt the questioning.
Sen. Obama seems to “hide” things from plain view when he has a discomfort with being associated with them. He “hid” his association with the Communist Party USA member by calling him “Frank”…in the rather bizarre game of peek-a-boo. “Frank”, of course, is Frank Marshall Davis…a rather strident ultra-leftist voice in his life, for whom Sen. Obama held an abiding respect and admiration.
Sen. Obama “hid” the very strident and hostile message of “Uncle Jeremiah” and the rather transparent suggestion that he “didn’t know” or “didn’t hear” the hostility and rage…is to deny the very fiber of all that is Jeremiah Wright’s total being. His raison d’ etre…is that rage, that anger, that hostility. Sen. Obama took an armload of tapes of Wright’s to law school with him, then “adopted” Wright as a “spiritual guide”…made him nearly a family member and embraced him with a depth of devotion…that defies the explanation of “not knowing” the man. It simply doesn’t pass the smell test.
This game of “Blind Man’s Bluff” or “peek-a-boo” continues on with Ayers and not only the Woods Foundation, but the Annenberg group association. With Rezco, with Rashid Khalidi, with the late Edward Said, with Ali Abunimah, with the Nation of Islam staffers.
Sen. Obama wants to at once be seen as a champion of the far left and pro-Palestinian voices, but also to be seen as a centrist and Pro-Israel. Certainly the “peek-a-boo”, with the now you see ‘em, now you don’t cadre…of the Carter anti-Israel contingent of Malley, Brzezinski, Power, McPeak…lends its own bucket of questions as to what is real and what is not in his campaign. And all the “vehement denials” don’t make the questions go away…for ANY political campaign…much less one that has been as thinly vetted as the present one.
Finally, the issue about who may be “duped” in this process…and what constitutes “intensive investigation”…I suppose may be best be defined as whether the prospect of a Jimmy Carter redux sends a chill up one’s leg….or down one’s spine.
