So I got this e-mail from a friend yesterday that claimed that there was concrete evidence that Obama was, in point of fact, a devout Muslim, and it can be found on Snopes.com! The text of the e-mail is as follows:Who is Barack Obama?
If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to all your contacts...this is very scarey to think of what lies ahead of us here in our own United States ...better heed this and pray about it and share it. We checked this out on "snopes.com". It is factual. Check for yourself. Who is Barack Obama? Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHIEST from Wichita , Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii . When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya . His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia . Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta . He also spent two years in a Catholic school. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school." Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta . Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States , Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy. The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States , one of their own!!!! Please forward to everyone you know. Would you want this man leading our country?...... NOT ME!!!
The thing is, if you go to Snopes.com and scroll down past this screed, you will find that Snopes uses this as a prelude to completely debunk everything in this particular rumor. Why people still send this around is simply beyond me. But I guess it stems from Republican fear of losing the White House to either Hillary or Obama, and the fact that Obama's middle name is the same as the surname of one of Bush's "evildoers", Saddam Hussein, is quite the fodder for painting him as a radical Muslim hiding behind his politically expedient claims of Christian faith. If I were a Muslim, I'd be insulted to think that there are people who think that everyone of this faith tradition is a terrorist in disguise waiting to blow up the US, but then, this is the result of seven years of living in an atmosphere of fear that has been put forth by the Bush administration, who seems to take unusual delight in playing Chicken Little by constantly claiming that the sky is falling. Well, it seems that people have tired of this message and are flocking to Obama's message of hope, even though he hasn't really put forth any concrete proposals on which we can all rally around. Still, you have to hand it to him that he's quite the eloquent speaker and continues to rack up impressive endorsements, the latest from Garrison Keillor, who I admire greatly.
Well, perhaps this shows the desperate tactics to which the right is forced to stoop. They are so afraid of losing the White House owing to the rampant unpopularity of Bush and the liability to the party that he has become, that they feel impelled to find any kind of dirt on the Democratic candidates that they can, even if it's outright false. Of course, their vitriolic hatred of Hillary is enough to where they don't really have to create rumors about her. If she becomes the Democratic nominee, it is said that independents will flock to McCain's banner in droves in order to see her defeated. However, if Obama becomes the nominee, he will have the power to attract those independents who are straddling the fence between him and McCain. Frankly, I'd like to see anything but a McCain presidency, as he strikes me as being way too loose a cannon who speaks of war in the Middle East for the next 100 years, something we most certainly cannot afford to do. Hell, I'd take Romney over McCain if it came to it, but my support is behind Obama because I know what a benefit to the Republicans a Clinton nomination would become, and I'd rather not have a Presidency that looks to the past in a nostalgic restoration of the Clinton years of the 90's, which, if you look at it closely, wasn't all that great from the standpoint of history. About the only good thing that can be said of those years was that the economy was booming, but then it all fell in when the dot-com bust hit. Well, now the housing bubble has burst and we are once again mired in recession and a national malaise over the direction that the country has gone in the last seven years. We need hope like we have traveled through a long desert and have found an oasis to quench our national thirst. And frankly, the only person I hear speaking of that is Obama. Maybe that's what's making the right so nervous that they feel the need to constantly try to label him a closet Muslim. He may well become our next President, depending on what happens tomorrow during "Tsunami Tuesday". Stay tuned.......
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