You are right in that respect, but radical Islam is a whole different ball game my friend. Their mission in life is to kill those that either are not Muslim, or will not convert to this militant religion. Who do you think the Taliban in Afghanistan are? Who do you think Al Qaeda is? Radical Muslim extremists bent on the destruction of America and what she stands for.

Of course, now i'll get the "Yeah, but don' you think we deserve it?".

No, we don't deserve it. And no, we didn't kill 1 bllion innocent Iraqi children. The numbers are always highly skewed and don't take into account insurgent killing of innocent people (which they have quite often).

We are fighting radical Islam.

Originally posted by jetxnet
We are fighting radical Islam.

Quite a bit of the Islamic world is fighting radical Islam and they have been going at it for much longer than the Americans have.

America might well benefit from good will in the Muslim world generated by the presence of a presidential candidate with Islam in his backround.



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"If they are to conquer, prophets must have attentive partisans to protect them from the tumult."
Mohammed

Apparently the Obamas of Kenya have been reading those scurrilous emails to which Barack likes to refer, because they have no doubt—contrary to the claims of the Obama campaign, that the presidential candidate was raised a Moslem. They take that as a given.

As the Jerusalem Post reports, “Barack Obama’s half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.”
The Obama brothers’ father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik—live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.

In a remarkable denial issued last November that still stands on the official campaign website, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs issued a statement explaining that “Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.”

Apparently Malik Obama, himself a Muslim, had not read the press release.

Melanie Phillips is the most recent commentator to draw attention to the massive body of evidence that leaves no doubt that Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim (Islam is patrilineal) and raised a Muslim (so registered in school, acknowledging attending Islamic classes, reported accompanying his step-father to the mosque, and able to recite the Koran in the original Arabic.)

Reuven Koret, Aaron Klein and Daniel Pipes have previously pointed to the attempts by Obama and his campaign to conceal the candidate’s Muslim background. The well documented evidence draws upon the on-the-ground interviews by researchers in Indonesia and Kenya, published quotations of Obama’s childhood friends and his school records, as well as the candidate’s own autobiography.

It is not clear whether Barack Obama will now disown his half-brother Malik, or throw him under the campaign bus, for acknowledging that shared family background. In any case, some one should notify Obama’s “Fight the Smear” website. Perhaps they can get him with the program.

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Originally posted by The Vagabond
The need for a southerner and timely bad news for John Edwards get Clark the VP spot.

Is anybody else noticing just how many unlikely circumstances I managed to get close on here? I'm not really sure what to make of it. It's almost like they really did try to do it but Obama managed to escape.

Now that obama's been nominted im sure the wheels are already in motion for a plan to take him out prior to the election. He's just got too many groups against him.

Israel clearly does not trust him. They have already had there plan to take out Iranian nuks put on hold because the republicans are afraid of loosing the election if there seen as supporting an attack.

The military establishment and contractors are definitely sharping there sites as President Obama would pull out of Iraq and kill the golden goose. China is totally surprised that America would have a black as president and is wondering what it will do to their internal policy of supression agains their own muslim population.

Any way you slice it I think hes toast. I do believe it will be prior to the election as Biden would probably have to carry out some of the obama creed in his memory. I put the odds at better than average that he is taken out in mid october just prior to the election. Anyone know how the constitution provides for an assassination just prior to the election ??? As far as I know the show goes on just as planned leaving the democrats with Biden and Clinton as there only short ticket .