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More Word of Obama's Muslim Support

Tuesday February 26, 2008

Categories: Barack Obama

obama20.jpgThis article from Congressional Quarterly is mostly on the dramatic shift among Muslims from the Republican to the Democratic column in the last eight years, but it does suggest that Obama will handily beat Hillary Clinton among Muslims:

This year, the bulk of Muslim support is likely to go to Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, said Mukit Hossain, a political consultant to the Muslim American Society, which has taken a leading role in mobilizing Muslim Americans to vote and be active in political life.

Obama, whose Kenyan relatives include Muslims and who lived in majority-Muslim Indonesia as a child, has courted Muslim voters, saying he would be more understanding of their concerns because of his background.

Anyone else find it ironic that the candidate who's denouncing rumors that he's a Muslim as vicious smears is the one mostly likely to benefit from Muslim support?

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Anti-O-Meter
February 27, 2008 10:45 AM

Anyone else find it ironic that this article plainly puts a large bias in your mind in the form of that direct question? It's time to look past religion and vote on what a candidate can best do. America needs help. Our country is bleeding and if casting down the jesus fanatics and raising up the level headed intellectuals is the way to give America back its pride, then so be it.

Anonymous
February 27, 2008 4:06 PM

Honestly I am very discouraged, saddened and deeply offended as much as by what is NOT being said by Barack Obama as what is being said and insinuated by these candidates and their people. The presupposition to these incidents is that there is something wrong with being a Muslim - and as a Muslim and an American this is the larger question.

Well, we have an evangelical Christian in the White House and what has THAT gotten us? He and his lackeys have bombed, invaded and raped a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11 - he is considered a terrorist all over the world, NOT his faith "that guides him".

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