I spent about 3 years in America and came back a bloated moron addicted to fast food and talk radio.
I'm not a fan of Obama. He's the smiley face on the USG, business as usual, but more so.
I am, however, a fan of logical thought and consistency...
Originally posted by finemanm
My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.3
From the liberal Washington Post:
Since declaring his candidacy for president in February, Obama, a member of a congregation of the United Church of Christ in Chicago, has had to address assertions that he is a Muslim or that he had received training in Islam in Indonesia, where he lived from ages 6 to 10. While his father was an atheist and his mother did not practice religion, Obama's stepfather did occasionally attend services at a mosque there.4
Is this really the first time you are hearing that Mr. Obama has been surrounded by Islam all his life?
I've emboldened the parts of what you've quoted in support of your argument that in fact directly contradict it. "Having to address assertions" means nothing other than that some people, doubtless Republicans out to get him, have accused him of stuff that may or may not be true, and he's responded.
I don't like Obama. He's clearly part of the usual Washington "let's screw the world for profit" bunch. I've seen him make speeches that were a triumph of style over content - content-free, in fact.
But if you're going to have a go, couldn't you come up with something more grounded in fact than this Islamophobic nonsense? It's all part of that revolting "the muslims are coming!" chorus which gets played out all the time in the right-wimg UK press.
Its like his life was a big secret. Doesn't that scare you?
How much coverage did Bush's drinking, his coke habit, his evasion of military service... how much MSM coverage did they get? Roughly comparable, I'd say.
