Comments on: Obama: I’m not Muslim. No, really.

By: Eudaemonion

Eudaemonion — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:03:11 +0000

Pretty words Amir, but I believe that the Federal Government over there in America grew under his Presidency.

By: Amir

Amir — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:28:52 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JX8X_FsBCDk

By: Eudaemonion

Eudaemonion — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:01:50 +0000

Maybe he should concentrate on trying to please American citizens who identify as Americans first.

Rrelying on that powerless, intellectually vacant lot is a sure way to lose the election. That’s why!

By: John Greenfield

John Greenfield — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:15:10 +0000

Well he’d be some sort of wacko Muslim to tell the world he supported an undivided Jerusalem. Wouldn’t the Splodies go nuts!?

By: G-man

G-man — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:17:14 +0000

Poor old Obama, hated by Muslims, hated by Jews. What next? Hated by Hispanic illegal immigrants? Maybe he should concentrate on trying to please American citizens who identify as Americans first.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com.....l#comments

By: Sara Tancredi

Sara Tancredi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:20:52 +0000

http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-.....41245.html

I guess dressing like a Jew certainly doesn’t hurt his chances.

Anyway, more p***-weak statements from Obama. He spent what, like, ten minutes in Ramallah? Economic hardships of Palestinians gets a mention but, wait, please don’t forget that I HEART ISRAEL.

We believe you, Obama.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:53:58 +0000

http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....7710_o.jpg

By: antish

antish — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:00:06 +0000

Umm Yasmin, I tend to agree with you except on the “happy to trample over Muslim Americans” bit. What ‘trampling’ has happened? True he hasn’t taken the opportunity to say ‘islam is wonderful’, or ‘I’m not a Muslim but Muslims are wonderful’. Those seem to be the only things being complained of here.

By: Umm Yasmin

Umm Yasmin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:22:26 +0000

I think it is because for the rest of non-Muslim non-Republican Americans Obama is being marketed as a superhero. Or at the very least, another Martin Luther King Jr or Nelson Mandela.

By listening to his campaign spin doctors and trying to distance himself from any Muslim connection, happy to trample over Muslim Americans in his rush to get away from them as fast as possible, is a chink in that superhero image.

It means Obama is just like any other politician – willing to pander to the racist red-neck (or even the slightly concerned white) voter IF it will ensure him votes. (Don’t forget Our Kevin was anti-Islamic school in Camden before the federal election, because to support it might have given John Howard the wedge he so desperately wanted).

Yet people – including Muslim Americans – don’t want an ordinary politician for a president. They want the return of Jesus after having had to put up with Bush and the GOP for so long.

By: antish

antish — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:28:26 +0000

Amir, I’m not sure that you’ve shown that he keeps on doing it. He’s answered the ’smear’ and has made a statement about his faith. Nothing like ” He seems to be positively going out of his way to assure everyone that not only has he never been Muslim, he sure as hell wouldn’t want to be one.”

Also, he presumably spends a lot of money on polling and research, and if that told his that a “simple denial’ was all it takes, that’s what he would have done. You might not like it but Muslims ARE viewed with deep suspicion by much (probably most) of the US electorate.

Agreed, his tactics might or might not be the best ones, but your OP implies that he’s somehow being unfair to Muslims, that his denying it is somehow a sign of his bad attitude towards Islam. Unless you think that everyone who is not a Muslim has a bad attitude towards Islam, that isn’t the case at all.

How about a ‘glass half full’ view? That it is astounding that someone with the middle name Hussein has at least a 50/50 chance of being the next president of the USA, just 7 years after 9/11?