Obama Says Muslim Background Gives Him “Insight Into…These People…”
CNN:
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa (CNN) -– Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about his “Muslim background” by a potential voter at a coffee shop Saturday, and used the encounter as an opportunity to try to put to rest stories that he said had been “misreported.”
Obama joined a group of four women in a booth to eat some pumpkin pie and sip a cup of tea. One of the women asked him how his “Muslim background” would affect his decisions as president.
“This is something that keeps on being misreported, so I’m glad you asked me,” Obama, who is Christian, said.
He told them his father had lived in a Muslim-dominated village in Kenya, but “didn’t practice Islam.”
“Truth is, he wasn’t very religious,” said Obama. “He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas, and they married, and then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So I’ve always been a Christian.”
He also touched on the fact that he lived in the Muslim country of Indonesia for four years of his childhood.
“I didn’t practice [Islam],” Obama continued, but added that being in that area had given him “insight into how these folks think.”
Just before being pulled away from the table by a staffer, Obama told the women he had been a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ for the past 15 years.
–CNN Iowa Producer Chris Welch
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LOL. Ignorance is bliss huh Osama?
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:31 amInsight into how “these folks” think ?
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:00 pm“these folks” who live to die and take as many with them as they can?
Just regular folks ehh obama?
This is right after you bomb Pakistan, right obama ?
Damn, how did we get along so long with out you.
Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease…………..
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:01 pmUnfucking believable….
I really have a difficult time trying to understand those who rally behind the likes of the Klintons and especially this turd.. Where’d I put my barf bag??
December 23rd, 2007 at 3:52 pm“I didn’t practice [Islam],” Obama continued, but added that being in that area had given him “insight into how these folks think.”
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So … I guess, then, you COMPLETELY understand the threat our country, and by that - the rest of the civilized world, faces from “these people” and why the Global War on Terror is so important … and that Iraq IS just one of the “fronts” in that GWOT … and we have ALL been stupidly and foolishly misunderstanding and mis-hearing you when you insist being in Iraq is wrong, and that you seek to immediately “pull our troops out” just as soon as you [are] president of THESE United States of America …
Oh … our bad.
Empty suit?
Damn! This guy ain’t even got enough material to make a f-ing suit to be empty …
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:12 pmOne thing I came to agree with in the “brain food reports(2) a few day’s back, it’s not a GWOT but a GWO Islam. Terror is just the tool they use.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 pmThis drone will be the absolute last to comprehend this, not that many in this country have.
Obama-lama-ding-dong is the lamest piece of crap presidential candidate to come along in two hundred years. What in the fuck does two stinkin’ years in Congress give you?
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:32 pmCome on, we need experienced assholes in office. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be fucked over by no rank amateur…
I have my pride, hey…
Pat, please pull the picture of Obama that is currently on this page. My view is that the “Rated N: No Experience” is an intentional (or could easily be interpreted as such)appeal to a racially charges slur. This statement in combination with the what appears to be a darkening of skin, and the photoshopped unflattering smile crossed the line of respectable political discourse.
I am appreciative of hard hitting commentary and satire. And I believe that Barack is a suit with no substance, and his association with a far left, afro-centric relious group, is deserving of biting satire and comment. This picture isn’t that, it is offensive. Again, as a conservative, I would request our movement and websites not contribute bigoted portrayals of our political opponents
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:38 pmSo, some kid who lived from the time he was six until ten has a real insight to what muslims are all about? Uh huh, he was still trying to figure out what his dick was for so don’t give me that BS.
Despite his time as a state senator (LOL!) and his short stint in the US Senate, he has no experience that could be construed as running anything. He’s an empty suit who is trying to leapfrog into higher office.
December 23rd, 2007 at 7:52 pmThis guy is more like an empty sock..I wouldnt vote for him if i had to.
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:05 pmClayton,
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:05 pmYou worry way too much!
Pat is a shade of GREEN just like the rest of us Jarheads. The guy in the picture looks Middle Eastern to me.
And seeing as how Barak was an Illinois State Senator before he went to misrepresent me in Washington (he was not from my district so I couldn’t vote against him in a state election) I can vouch for the fact that he has no experience!
In his book, “Dreams From My Father” Hussein Obama wrote, “I blew smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; blow when you could afford it.” For those unfamiliar with illicit drug culture, “Blow” is a street term applied to cocaine.
“Obama wouldn’t know the difference between an RPG and a bong.”-John McCain
December 24th, 2007 at 1:11 amackbar obama speaks empty platitudes. When these obama types take over our cities crime skyrockets, the standard of city services drops and people flee the city. If obama wins there’s no place to flee.
December 24th, 2007 at 5:16 amYES! Allah Akbar! Vote for Obama :roll:!
December 24th, 2007 at 9:09 amThe prospect of a black president is, in my view, something long in the coming. However…
You’re black and you’re a woman…that’s another hurdle.
You’re black and you’re gay…that’s another hurdle.
You’re black and you’re liberal…that’s really another hurdle.
You’re black and you’re a 9/11 Truther…wow. BIG hurdle!
You’re black and you’re MUSLIM…Dude. Cryogenic freeze for 300 years, minimum!
If Obama doesn’t come out and totally stamp out any rumor that he has a smidgeon of Muslim in his soul, he’s totally dead in the water for the rest of his life.
Yeah…7 years after 9/11 and we’re about to have a Muzzie Prez. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
December 24th, 2007 at 5:04 pmHmm, I could see where you could make an RPG into a bong…
December 25th, 2007 at 1:01 am