Somebody might want to tell him this is considered a smear:
Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.BTW, I was reading this blog post and I thought the case for Obama actually having a Muslim background is pretty compelling. Both his father and step-father were Muslim and he studied Islam at his school. Yes, he says now that he was never a Muslim but that's not what he was saying last year:
He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics -- and more likely to be aware of their nationalism -- if he once studied the Koran with them. Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as 'one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.'BTW, don't shoot the messenger. There are discrepancies in his story that the MSM won't ask him about but that won't stop the Internet from asking. We're not in the tank for him and have legitimate questions.
Update: Here is an alternative view of the facts.
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"Forget Obama's background for a minute."
The response to Obama's problem isn't McCain's. Sorry, separate issues and as I mentioned in a previous comment, one the voters are getting hung up on. Deal with the issue at hand.
I think it's telling that not one of you addressed his brother's comment. I guess it's much easier to bring up McCain's problems or attack the messenger than to explain why his own brother thought he grew up as a Muslim.
I did.
I noted that he didn't grow UP with this brother. He didn't grow up, past a certain point, with his father.
His brother, being Muslim, is likely using Muslim criteria for membership, which includes that their father was. However, this isn't the sort of criteria WE use for religious membership.
So, unless you're going to call an atheist with a Christian parent a 'Christian', Obama is no more Muslim than that.
Obama's parents separated, then divorced when Obama was just a few years old. His father moved back to Kenya, remarried, and it was THERE that his siblings, a half brother and sister, were born and raised. He even notes meeting his sister, for the first time, as an adult in his biograpy.
They have no more idea of Obama's life after his father left than anyone else.
I'll have to agree with Moonshadow that the huzzein (or whatever they call it), is quite beautiful. Everyone knows Satan is attractive.
Sorry to disagree but God has a monopoly on beauty:
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Great first Obama trashes the only true knowlegeable woman Hillary, because she beat him in the popular vote. The dem. said, thanks but no thanks woman, stay home, work, and just stay out of the White house.
Then he trashes Palin, only because he miss the chance of a great woman. And she should be afraid, we woman, the real woman, not hollywood dummies, know it's time for a real leader McCain, and Palin will learn from him. What will Biden teach the want to be leader? You dem. have it backwards as usual. You but the cart before the horse. Now he's a Muslim. He's white when he wants to be, and black when he wants to be. A voter in the Senate when he wants to be, and doesn't want to be told on. Give me a break, now he's a Muslin? Will the real "God" help us know something truthful about this want to be Leader.
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