Comments on: Barack Among The Evangelicals

National Review: Obama Was Swimming Upstream In His Visit To Saddleback

[kazoodan]

I realized I had found part of that 12 percent of Americans who confuse Obama%u2019s ties to Islam - unprecedented for an American presidential candidate - with his actually being a Muslim. I decided to move on to another topic - the new agenda for evangelicals.

Yeah, right. They were ''confused''. They weren''t confused, they bought the lies that were fed to them from Rush Mushmouth and his ilk. I notice you didn''t write about correcting their ''confusion''.

[element51]

IRLiberal....Six out of the last seven people I have talked to about the election have said that all they knew about Obama was that he was a Muslim. Can you believe that? When I asked would they consider voting for Obama they said no, that muslims were our enemy. This is the sad state of voters in America. I explained to each of them that Obama was a Christian and I don''t know if I penetrated their thick heads or not. This proves Gobbels "big lie" theory. It works and Karl Rove has used it like a fine instrument. I just wonder how many people will go to the polls thinking this is true. Really sad, isn''t it?

[noloyalisti]

If you knew that McSame voted against the troops, wants endless war, flip-flops on issues the same day, supports torture, rich people over poor, corporate lobbyists and McGeorge McBush, would you still vote for him?

[element51]

IRLiberal....Yes.

[ajmarine111]

What is wrong with a Muslim being president anyway ?


Posted by old300d at 03:26 PM : Aug 18, 2008


People are afraid that if one gets to be President, part of his inauguration speech would be to tell all the "infidels" that their days are numbered.


I don''t think that, but, others do.

[irliberal]

%u201CWould you support Obama under any circumstances?%u201D

%u201CAbsolutely not,%u201D she answered. %u201CI will not vote for a Muslim.%u201D

She paused for a moment and repeated: %u201CHe%u2019s a Muslim.%u201D

See, now this "woman" isn''t even an American at all. She doesn''t believe in democracy. She just believes in her particular flavor of religion that has all her preconceived bigotries nicely built into it. It''s people like this, and there are a lot of them, that gave us two terms of GW Bush.

Religion poisons everything.

[samthetvcat]

Eeew, my gut was just telling me something was fishy about Rick Warren from seeing him in interviews and that he wasn''t exactly as he appeared.

And then you feel guilty about doubting him because he''s a pastor, he''s a successful author who many of my extended family members'' ADORE due to his book, and he''s never saying anything bad about anybody.

But I think it was grossly unethical for him to tell the audience that McCain was in the cone of silence when he was not in the cone. That''s something somebody who values honesty would never overlook. And somebody who values honesty would have warned Magoo in advance that if he was late the public would be informed and instructed to assume he had had access to the questions beforehand.

Warren also gave both of them the first two questions in advance - I think that''s deceptive. Didn''t like that . . .

[ubrew12]

Article: "This is not exactly Barack Obama Country. It%u2019s Orange County, and these are Orange County evangelicals."
Orange County makes most of its money from defense contracts (real-estate is important too, but thats not a ''real'' industry). Defense contractors are basically socialism at work: they don''t compete (not in any real sense) for consumer dollars, since their ''consumer'' is ''wink-wink'' the US DOD. Its a fake-capitalism that allows Orange Country conservatives to think they made their money in the ''free market'' rather than by sucking on the governments teets all these many decades. But thats precisely what they''ve been doing, taking tax dollars from the rest of us and saying it was needed for the nations ''defense''. That''s why I call defense spending ''welfare for cold-warriors''. These guys will always see ''terrorists and communists'' under every bed: the more they ''see'' the more money they can hoodwink out of the rest of us.

[old300d]

Obama spent 20 years helping promote Black Liberation Theology.

I would guess most Evangelicals know less about Black Liberation Theology than they do about Islam.

What is wrong with a Muslim being president anyway ?

[noloyalisti]

Has the NRO (National Republican Order) said why this a bad thing? Or are they happy with these Christian fascists running the government and military for their Crusade?

[jmurrieta1]

"Obama Was Swimming Upstream In His Visit To Saddleback "

In the usual stream of you-know-what that just pours out of evangelicals, end-timers, holy rollers, and their sky-pilots.

[wogerwabbit]

I realized I had found part of that 12 percent of Americans who confuse Obama%u2019s ties to Islam - unprecedented for an American presidential candidate - with his actually being a Muslim.

I wonder why that is? Could it be because neocons are afraid of the truth and lie and lie and lie until the little lie becomes the big truth in small minds. They offer nothing but fear that''s bought into by cowards.

[ars7777777]

Why is CBS news not calling for an apology to CBN news from Barack Obama for his accuzations calling them a liar about his actions on the born alive bill. His spokesperson has said that he was incorrect, but there has been no apology. You have irresponsibly run this all weekend as fact for Obama but now that it is clear that he was the doing the lying you do nothing to show the American public his true bent. Why is it you are so biased that anything goes for Obama and your willing to overlook anything he says and does that is grossly wrong. Is it that you are ultra liberal as he is that even if he wanted to do things that would harm you and your family that you would just turn your head again.