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Thread #101088   Message #2037272
Posted By: Peace
27-Apr-07 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
"Obama's religious affiliations bother me, a lot."

Really? Sounds like you don't know shit about his religious affiliations. What is there about the Trinity United Church of Christ that bothers you? Or is FOX your source for news?



From the NYT:

'All of the claims about Senator Obama's faith and education raised in the Insight Magazine story and repeated on Fox News are false. Senator Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother. Obama's stepfather worked for a U.S. oil company, and sent his stepson to two years of Catholic school, as well as two years of public school. As Obama described it, "Without the money to go to the international school that most expatriate children attended, I went to local Indonesian schools and ran the streets with the children of farmers, servants, tailors, and clerks." [The Audacity of Hope, p. 274]

To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago. Furthermore, the Indonesian school Obama attended in Jakarta is a public school that is not and never has been a Madrassa.

These malicious, irresponsible charges are precisely the kind of politics the American people have grown tired of, and that Senator Obama is trying to change by focusing on bringing people together to solve our common problems.'

And YOU, Riginslinger, perpetuate the crap with posts like that.