Comments on: Obama Dogged By Muslim Rumors

Washington Post: Foes Use Candidate's Muslim Ties To Fuel Speculation About His Faith

[trumpetstuff]

Imagine tolerance as a mainstream American value. Imagine a candidate`s religious beliefs (or lack thereof) not being an issue. That the main focus in the campaign is a candidate`s qualifications for the office. Imagine a day when the political bashing of people of faith, agnostics, and atheists is seen as a relic of an unenlightened past.

There are millions of Americans for whom this is already true. For that, I am very thankful.

[cbs_oliver]

The fact that deceit and character assassination is a regular tool of conservatives shows quite clearly that they do not - in fact - pattern their behaviors after Christ''s teachings.

This is one of the reasons why as a Christian I more often find Democratic behaviors and positions congruent with my values.

[gunownerdan]

Obama is just another member of the CFR(Council on Foreign Relations) just like Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Giuliani, Huckabee, Edwards, Romney, Biden, McCain, Richardson, and Thompson to name a few.
The CFR has hijacked the foreign policy of both parties and their main goal is to destroy American sovereignty and our constitution leading to the formation of a North American Union with Canada and Mexico.
Dr. Ron Paul is NOT a member of the CFR and he is the only pro-peace and pro-liberty candidate running for president.
ronpaul2008.com

[realpatriot1]

Prinzowhales,

Would you like us to take Jihadists extremists to dinner? In order to safely get our troops out of Iraq
we need to clear the exit path of would-be snipers.

We need a candidate with the international credibility that Bush forfeited with the way he went into this mess to bring others into the process of re-establishing the diplomatic process so the country doesn''t deteriorate into ethnic cleansing and anarchy when we leave.

We also need a candidate who''s committed to a withdrawal plan for removing our troops from the war zone that do everything possible to make that withdrawal orderly, swift, and as safe as possible for our troops.

That means taking out anyone engaging our troops.
So long as our occupation is open-ended, as the Republicans want to keep it til the end of time, those engaging us will include 2 elements. Element 1 would be Jihadists whose only goal is to kill as many Americans as possible. Element 2 would be Iraqi nationals who want us out of their country. If we set a withdrawal, as even General Sanchez now suggests, it''s reasonable to consider that those elements will back off. The Jihadists won''t and will be need to be engaged right up to the end of our presence in Iraq.

[samthetvcat]

"While considerable attention during the campaign has focused on the anti-Mormon feelings aroused by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R), polls have also shown considerable hostility toward Muslims in politics. It is not clear whether that negative sentiment will affect someone who has lived in a Muslim country but does not practice Islam."

If Perry Bacon Jr. and the twits at washingtonpost.com who publish this garbage are wondering whether it''s just them, the answer''s ''yes'' . . .

[usbrit-2009]

Razzl - Right on. Limpbone, Shammity, O''Wrongly and the rest''s only tactic is to tear down what''s good to their own sorry level. The fact he''s attracting the right wing screed writers should be worn as a badge of honor.

[mudrose-2009]

Will he put Mormons in his cabinet?

[Razzl]

The way to handle these kind of lunatic rantings is to ignore them or deny them with dignity, but not to acknowledge them as legitimate questions. If Obama were a Muslim he would have every right to run for office without having to answer to any of this nonsense, so he shouldn''t answer to it as a non-Muslim. We''ll have to listen to this racist nonsense a lot this election because the Republican party is spinning apart and the only element left in its ranks are uneducated kooks and luny right-wingers, as evidenced by the questions at last night''s debate...

[sgtrds]

In the first place even if he is a Muslim, so what? The Constitution says there is to be no religions test for who can or can not be president and it makes no difference to me if he''s Muslim or any other kind of cult member like Christian or Mormon.

[prinzowhales]

While I''m certainly not an Obama supporter, I''d like to point out that this is just a ploy of the propagandists to create sympathy for one of their props in that great staged play ''Election 2008''. It raises a non-issue and diverts from real issue.

Obama has considerable Zionist money out of Chicago behind him--they aren''t going to back a Moslem... not for the Senate...not for the Presidency. Obama has already gone to Israel and got an A-OK from the Likud-niks and other Luddites. He wants to continue the intervention in Iraq to "take out" tens of thousands of "activist extremists"...presumably, NOT to dinner.

He says he''ll talk with the Iranians...how nice...and what happens if they stick to their plans to generate electricity with nuclear reactors and process their own fuel as they are able to do under international treaty which the US is and has actively subverted in the cases of Israel and Pakistan?