13% of voters think Obama is Muslim
Will this hurt Obama?
MSNBC…The percentage of respondents who correctly identified Obama as a Christian increased from 18% to 37%. But those identifying him as a Muslim also increased five points (from 8% to 13%). Fifty-eight percent said globalization has been bad for the country; just 25% said it has been good. Congress’ approval rating is at 19%. And just 14% view Nader in a positive light; 37% have a negative impression of him. The poll was conducted March 7-10 among 1,012 registered voters, and it has a 3.1% margin of error…..
Fact Check: Barack Obama is a Christian, Not a Muslim
March 15th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I want to see Obama eat a ham sandwich.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I wouldn’t mind seeing him say the “Pledge of allegiance”. Although I like him more than Hillary I’m still a Ron Paul supporter (who’s still in the race by the way) just trying to stay on subject whenever possible (yeah right)
March 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
13%?
Heck, that’s almost as many as think Dubious is doing a good job!
March 17th, 2008 at 10:52 am
13% is more than think DOR’s party is doing a good job!
Obama has a muslim name and attended muslim schools. He can run from it, but his spiritual followings should absolutely be considered just as the MSM went after Romney for being a Mormon.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
bb,
Do your homework.
Sen. Obama’s school in Indonesia was secular.
End the bigotry, OK?
March 17th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Bart
FYI
CNN debunks false report about Obama
JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) — Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a “madrassa” are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.
Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.
Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa. (Watch video of Obama’s school )
Insight attributed the information in its article to an unnamed source, who said it was discovered by “researchers connected to Senator Clinton.” A spokesman for Clinton, who is also weighing a White House bid, denied that the campaign was the source of the Obama claim.
He called the story “an obvious right-wing hit job.”
Insight stood by its story in a response posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.
The Insight article was cited several times Friday on Fox News and was also referenced by the New York Post, The Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News and a number of political blogs. (Watch how the Obama “gossip” spread )
School not a madrassa
But reporting by CNN in Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate.
He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971.
“This is a public school. We don’t focus on religion,” Hardi Priyono, deputy headmaster of the Basuki school, told Vause. “In our daily lives, we try to respect religion, but we don’t give preferential treatment.”
Vause reported he saw boys and girls dressed in neat school uniforms playing outside the school, while teachers were dressed in Western-style clothes.
“I came here to Barack Obama’s elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa … like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Vause said on the “Situation Room” Monday. “I’ve been to those madrassas in Pakistan … this school is nothing like that.”
Vause also interviewed one of Obama’s Basuki classmates, Bandug Winadijanto, who claims that not a lot has changed at the school since the two men were pupils. Insight reported that Obama’s political opponents believed the school promoted Wahhabism, a fundamentalist form of Islam, “and are seeking to prove it.”
“It’s not (an) Islamic school. It’s general,” Winadijanto said. “There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. … So that’s a mixed school.”
The Obama aide described Fox News’ broadcasting of the Insight story “appallingly irresponsible.”
Fox News executive Bill Shine told CNN “Reliable Sources” anchor Howard Kurtz that some of the network’s hosts were simply expressing their opinions and repeatedly cited Insight as the source of the allegations.
Obama has noted in his two books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope,” that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10.
March 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am
John, DOR,
Let me try again — “Obama has a muslim name and attended muslim schools”.
Where did I say he attended a madrassa? And when did the muslim religion become secular?
Obama admits to attending a muslim (not secular) school. The only question left is how much it influences his decision making today which becomes cloudier with every utterance and action by his “spiritual mentor” J. Wright.