A few folks are upset with me because I labeled as "dimwitted" those Americans who still believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Too bad. They are dimwitted. And, contrary to what some believe, I am not saying that because I support Obama for President. I am saying that because everyone knows that Mr. Obama is a self-professed Christian -- and attempts to pretend that he is otherwise in order to create an aura of suspicion around him about his beliefs is, indeed, "dimwitted." Especially if people believe that the rumor of Obama being a Muslim is true.
Having said that, I received this comment on this blogsite from a reader...
Neale,I love all your books and I really wish you would use this blog to go into more detail about them instead of slamming your presidential candidate down the throat of your readers. Personally, I will not vote for Obama. I don't trust him.
Like any other presidential candidate, he will say anything to get elected. He threw his own grandmother under the bus and then his pastor. After going to his church for over 20 years, why all of a sudden did he extract himself from the church when his pastor's teachings were made public? I'm no fan of McCain, but if Obama is elected this country is in big trouble.
Perhaps your "dimwitted" readers will make their own decisions about who they want to run this country without your subtle brainwashing.
Posted by: lbj | July 25, 2008 1:58 PM
Hmmm...fascinating. Calling people who believe that Mr. Obama is a Muslim is "subtle"? Wow. i thought I was being rather direct. It is "brainwashing"? Wow. I thought it was mind-opening.
Then again, what do I know....?
I also found this comment from a blog reader fascinating...
People have every right to vote for the candidate of their choice, and I don't think it was Neale's intent to put people down for doing that.I know it has been frustrating for me to receive many warnings from my circle of family and friends about Obama's allegiance to Muslim traditions, as if he'd side with Bin Laden. As one post said, 'destroy us from within.' I have to agree with Neale, it is dimwitted.
Posted by: Deb Reilly | July 25, 2008 2:26 PM
Good for you, Deb, for seeing things clearly.
Now, let's get this straight. Whether you support Barack Obama or John McCain...Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim. Nor is he going to support the radical agenda of terrorists who call themselves Islamists.
To think otherwise is to be, I will say again, dimwitted. Or...purposefully misleading, which is even worse. I can forgive stupidity. I cannot forgive deliberate deception masquerading as honest politics.
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@ Victor... ROFL .... Quote: "a black man in the US Presidence!, almost an utopia!-, we don't have to be ingenuous..."
There ARE MANY MANY BLACK PRESIDENTS governing around the world, theres even WOMEN PRESIDENTS ... If the majority of the voting white men & women in the USA would open their eyes to the real world out here, and stop being blinded by the hype, then they would see that "a black president" nor a "woman president" is nothing whatsoever NEW to the rest of the world....LOL...
So basically the rest of the world is probably asking itself this question:
"Why the friggin hype over something that has no bearing on the qualification"?..LOL... In my oppinion the canidates whom ran aside Mr. Obama are simply OVER-QUALIFIED! Mr. Obama shows himself to be "qualified" on the level which the USA needs right now, not later, not yesterday : RIGHT NOW!
It is certainly time that the USA votes "a president" which has LOVE for his country and LOVE for the world.
Frankly I would care less care if Obama is black, white, green or pink... FOR IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. Theres blind people voting for Obama and have never seen him but have heard his soul speak.
So it doesnt matter what he/she is, but rather what matters is "what the president is going to do to pull us all back together instead of leading us astray, hurting and hating each other and other nations thru arrogance, lies and personal greed".
Obamas Tour abroad to other country leaders most certainly has shown that HE IS WILLING TO NEGOTIATE ON A LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING FOR TODAYS BENEFITS OF THE COUNTRY.
He is reaching out getting the support of the world for the benefit of the USA.
This man loves the USA to do something like that, lets face the facts: HE ISNT PRESIDENT YET, someone overseas could have killed him and end the story for the election 2008 but he "went on tour in the name of all americans and made a wonderful love filled speech to all whom would listen". That takes ALOT of guts to do, considering what taste Mr. Bush had left in the mouths of most europeans, Mr. Obama has a lot of messes to clean up around the world. He`s doing it though.
MC Cain "could have done so and still can" if he would have wanted to, but he didnt, hasnt and wont. Vote for McCain and you`ll find most of his term being spent in Camp David in the Wellness section using (y)our taxmoney to pay the utility bills and his company will be the Clan of Family Bush fine dining every night there long after election is over. He hasnt done very much for anyone other than talk about what he`d do - if - .
Obama has already found lots of people around the world willing to reach out and support the USA again. Its thats simple, the man is exactly what God wanted for the USA and no matter what any of us think or say right now. He`s thumbs up!
My oppinion - my right.
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Linda,
Obama has never denied that he has Muslim family members. His paternal grandfather (whom he never met) was a convert, and his own father while raised as one was an atheist by the time he met Obama's mother. And culturally Muslims have a different set of views on what makes who what...BUT OBAMA WAS NEVER RAISED as a Muslim, and he was certainly never raised by his father's side of the family. Culturally he spent more time being reared in Christian settings.
What I find "dimwitted" is the idea that many Christians seem more willing to believe a death row inmate's conversion to Christianity then Barack Obama's. I find it dimwitted to think they can believe that Obama's wife, maternal grandparents, relatives, and his own young daughters have somehow managed to hide his "secret" Muslim beliefs from the public so well.
Some people have a general kind of fear and are susceptable to crap. It fits in with their attitiude and belief system.
Most Muslims are moderates, and there are probably some Muslims who would just make a great president.
The U.S. is a country like any other Country. It's got it's good and it's bad. However for a presidential candidate to say that the US is just OK, rather than to say he is "Proud" would ensure that he lost.
Worse still, if he was to admit that some of the problems of the US were their own people's doing (like being overly materialistic and running up debt) would not go down to well either.
To win an election you need to be of the agreed religion, be heterosexual and either a) be a liar (or good at dodging questions) or b)not know where things are really at, so that you speak honestly, like George,
At the moment you have a (b) type president.
Good debates - but who knows exactly what a persons beliefs are, or what they will change to tomorrow? The President of America really does not have much to do with decisions, and neither do the people... The Supreme Court - those who you never get the chance to vote for or against are those with the greatest control. The President waging battles against the commities is mostly a front - the decisions go on elsewhere with little control from that which is evident. That is merely my "dimwitted" observation because I am just a "dimwitted" human... At least I KNOW I am a "dimwit" and that comforts me, because when I am wrong, I have a good excuse!
Does anyone realize that when they vote, they vote for the best manipulator - the most greedy self-serving rich person, not the best person? My vote goes to the one who offers to serve without compensation - serve, and the one who will cut the wages of all those in government who are doing a terrible job at running this failing business they call America. Really - with the debt we have, those people would be fired from any other business and a new system would be adopted.
my thoughts are that
Barack is the Highest Thought we have
in our nation's political process at this
moment.
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