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As Ben Smith writes, this tweet last week by RNC New Media Director Todd Herman suggests that national Republicans don't see any harm by furthering the false Obama-is-a-Muslim story.
Watch - Is @BarackObama amongst the 20% who think he's a Muslim? http://gop.am5/TXi #tcot
The video that was linked shows an 18-second clip of a 2008 ABC interview with Obama, in which he accidentally referred to being a Muslim before correcting himself.
However, the tweet has since been deleted from Herman's Twitter account. First Read has reached out to the RNC for comment, but has yet to hear back.
*** UPDATE *** RNC spokesman Doug Heye responds, "An errant, or sarcastically-intended tweet aside, the RNC has never spoken about the President’s Christianity because it is both crystal clear and a non-issue. What is an issue, and remains foremost in the minds of voters is the failed efforts of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to grow jobs. Today, it was announced that existing home sales plunged by 27%; discussing this issue will serve the voters far better than any nonsense that won’t employ a single American."
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There is a full color photo of Mr. Obama in his complete Muslim outfit including the cap they wear in a Globe magazine I have along with the true story about him. Former Attorney General Phillip Berg had him investigated finding he was going over to Indonesia for secret Muslim meetings when there was a ban on all Americans going over there when he wasd 20 yrs. old, but then he wasn't really an American citizen now was he? There is actually a pic of his Soc. Sec. card as well is in the latest Globe I picked up at CVS a few days ago. I'm sure the only reason it's only in that magazine is because Mr. Obama controls the media now, what they say about him just as Hitler did. His secret soc. sec. card, number which has now been made public by his own cousin, Roy Obama is more proof that he is NOT a legal U.S. citizen so hopefully, we should have this evil man impeached and deported now! He's done nothing but lie to everyone, tear apart our Constitution hich he swore to protect. He's almost destroyed this nation beyond repair and is taking away our freedoms. He must be stopped now!
Do you also hear the walls talk anotpatriot?
apatriot
YOU are the essence of what is wrong with this country. You are so stupid, it's frightening. Even in the face of the facts, you still cling to your stupid ideas. It's just unbeleivable that you can even funtion in this world. I hope you don't have children. I hope your bloodline ends with you. I feel sorry for anyone who has to interact with you.
How does this help the job situation? The Economy? What's the GOP's plan to grow jobs? I mean besides the rather quaint idea that everything will get better if we stop doing anything about it.
Him being a Muslim or not is not important.
What is important is that he is anti America!
The only truly Christian President we've had in recent history is Jimmy Carter, and you guys hated him for it.
That's true, Falstaffmind: the right wing HATED Jimmy Carter and still does. Does that mean they are anti-Christian?
"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
Are you quoting someone Rio, or did you come up with that mindless drivel yourself?
The mindless are the idiots that elected an anti American to be the leader of the greatest country on earth.
Yep, that's true Rio, idiots like you elected the Cheney/Bush administration that nearly destroyed the country. And you can't get more UnAmerican then the two of them.
Whats more unamerican? Someone who almost destroyed the country (as you say ) or someone who is trying to and succeeding in destroying the country on purpose. Why do I say on purpose you might ask? Just look at any thing Obama has done, the list is endless from his "stimulus plan" which hasn't worked. To him raising taxes when history has proven to generate growth and revenue lowering taxes works every time. Do I need to say anything about his "free health care"?
Maybe this Quote will help.
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005 ~
Really Rio? Then riddle me this: if cutting taxes is the solution to every problem, then why isn't the economy booming? Cheney/Bush cut taxes during war, using the same specious logic that you use. President Obama has not given anyone free health care, which you would know if you watched anything but Faux News. What he did was increase access to health care to people who cannot get it, which are people that have been denied by the insurance industry. It is the Republicans that were giving free health care by having the poor access Emergency Rooms, waiting until they were very sick, and more expensive to treat. The hospitals were not collecting, and going broke. The HCR plan makes health insurance affordable, and MUST BE PAID FOR YOU DOLT! President Obama has not raised taxes, he has lowered them. The current discussion on taxes is what to do about the rape of the country by Cheney/Bush for their rich buddies. If taxes do go up, it will be on the top 2%, not small business, not the little guy. We do have to pay our bills somehow. And while you list a cute quote that I am sure that salivate about, it is not germane. But, at least you didn't attribute it to Lincoln like the rest of your ilk do.
Maybe you could explain to me just how Cheney and Bush "raped the country for their rich buddies' as you stated.
The rape of the country under Cheney/Bush is obvious to anyone who is paying attention. They started a war, for God's sake, (keeping if off the books and lying about the costs) preemptively invading a country for no other reason than the messianic complex that Bush has and Cheney encouraged. That war wound up enriching the people that had companies like Halliburton. The tax benefits during that period went to the richest, away from the middle class and working poor. If you know anything about history, a country cannot survive without a flourishing middle class, and that is what those two criminals destroyed in this country.
I believe the war was started after Sadams blatant violation of UN resolutions like #687 and #689 to name a few and then in 1998 when he ordered the UN inspectors out of his country. Everybody knew he had the desire to make WMDs and that he even used sarin nerve gas on his own people. Hence the UN resolutions. As for him using Halliburton there was no one other company big enough and that had the resources to handle such a large task. Remember it is the richest people that have invested in the companies that hire us middle class people, giving the rich a tax break allows them to employ more of us. Scareing the rich with increased taxes and vague health care bills that had to be "passed inorder to find out what was in them" only stifles the hiring of workers.
Will you liberals please grow up and stop saying Bush and Cheney "raped this country" - You all sound like uninformed little children.
Boy, Rio, you buy whatever Faux News says hook line and sinker don't you? That is really frightening. Halliburton got a no compete contract from Cheney, an old employee of theirs. Pretty convenient, wouldn't you say? The HCR bill was debated on both floors of Congress, and only the truly disingenuous believe that those folks did not know what they were voting for, but that is a convenient excuse for the Faux News folks too, right? If tax breaks work, and I do want an answer to this question, Rio, then why did Cheney/Bush have such an abysmal jobs record, and why did our economy go into the ditch? According to your reasoning, they should have had the best jobs record of any administration. They don't. It took them 8 years to destroy this country, spend down a surplus, and you folks think this is going to be fixed in one term? Or even two? You are delusional. The rich aren't scared, they are greedy, and if they were going to hire, the Cheney/Bush giveaways to them would have caused that to happen. And by the way, I am not poor. I am retired, and I owned and sold a small business that employed around 30 people. By most accounts, I am wealthy. But I also know my obligations to my country, and one of those is to pay for the services I expect. How about you? What are YOUR obligations?
FYI I don't listen to Fox news.
Your gal Nancy Pelosi was the one who said we need to pass this bill in order to see what is in it.
Really do you think anyone who voted on it actually read all 2000+ pages.
As for the "surplus" Clinton cut almost all military spending during his time in office. (my friend had to buy his son body armor because the military didn't have enough)
Going from no military spending to supporting a war costs money.
If you were still running your small business would you want to hire new employees not knowing what Obama has in store for you as one of the "wealthy".
My obligations are to help educate all the people I can who have been brainwashed by government run schools and media into believing that America is not the greatest country on earth. Thank You
Spokanebob - not trying to bait anyone, just simply stating that it was not until Obama was elected that all this doom and gloom was started by the GOP, they have taken exaggerated issue with everything I have listed. If I were baiting, I got you hook line and sinker, but don't worry I'd throw you back.
But the doom and gloom was caused by Obama being elected.
Only in the minds of the neanderthals, Rio.
I guess if you look at his approval ratings then by your logic the majority of the people who now disapprove of him are neanderthals :)
Admit it you have buyers remorse for electing the first anti american president.
How is the latest economic news looking Obama lovers? What happened to the summer of recovery?
BREAKING NEWS: New-home sales sink 12.4% in July to slowest pace on record as economy weakens
What's the matter conservativeman: when we say that Cheney/Bush raped the country, does the truth hurt?
Hurt no - Makes me think or proves my point that SOME of you are completely out of your minds.
Please explain how they "raped" the country- Can you ?
Already did, can you read?
Sorry newday but i have not spent the last 8 hours of my life on here like you so i must have missed your incorrect,full of half truths and lies post-
Really? You have been posting plenty of lies these last two days. But, that is a response I would expect. When you don't have an answer try to avoid debate by insults. Good try.
Last two days?Sorry newday but you are lying again- Please go back and find ANY post from me from yesterday-LIAR
Would someone please read this article and then tell me who is the liar--Obama or the Egyptian Minister?
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/06/-obama-tells-egyptian-foreign-minister-i-am-a-muslim-stealth-coup-on-the-white-house.html
The liar is Pam Geller, the blogger on Atlasshrugs. Do you really NOT know that?
You may think that, BUT she put a link in there to Israel Today which also states the same thing. How do you explain that? Someone is lying--either Obama or the Egyptian Foreign Minister. Here is the link for you http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=128&view=item&idx=2041
Let me know your answer.
Oh my God, Pam Geller, someone who spends all her time bashing Muslims due to her own ignorance, puts in a link to a magazine where a rumor is repeated with no corroborating evidence! Stop the presses people, how is the main stream media missing this!
LOL Dawn, the brainwashing on you liberals is complete. You are calling the Egyptian Foreign Minister a liar. Lets get Nile TV to chime in on it as that is where he said it. I really don't care if he is...I do care that he is a liar and a charlatan and is out to destroy America. So how long do you libs get before the koolaid gives out ala Guyana? LOLOLOL! "So let it be written, so let it be done!"
Poor Patty, you really do not know the difference between a primary source and rumor, do you? See, here is the thing, in that same interview, the Egyptian Prime Minister also said that all women named Patty are Muslim too. And that they are liars and charlatans and out to destroy America! Wait, Pam Geller will write about it tomorrow! And Patty, when you repeat things like 'koolaid gives out in Guyana" you demonstrate two things. First, you read something one time that you thought was SOOOO clever, that you repeat it when you want to sound clever, and second, you are so unable to discern truth v. fiction that one must conclude that you are neither well educated, nor very bright.
You said nothing I didn't expect you to say. Lie-berals all say the same thing--if you don't agree with me you must be stupid. Why you all think you are the most intelligent beings are earth is a gross misconception on your part. The sun is setting on your "newdayDAWNING."
Poor Patty, you must be frustrated. You post two opinion articles by right wingers who are without merit, and mistake them for fact. You repeat trite overused phrases, like "Kool Aid" and "lie beral" as if it makes you sound erudite. And when I call you on it, you are upset that the facts get in your way. But, it is always fun to make that trip down delusional lane, but I prefer reality.
Certainly not as frustrated as you seem to be!! It has been very entertaining seeing you throw out your trite, well-worn euphemisms.
Good job, Patty! And how flattered I am that you attempt to mimic my style. May I recommend a good 101 level college class on history and creative writing? I am certain that you will find it most edifying and helpful.
Sorry Rio, I don't have buyer's remorse for electing the first anti-American President. I didn't vote for Cheney/Bush.
Bush is gone New day - You need to try and come up with a better defense of Obama -How is that summer of recovery coming along?
Aren't you glad that he ended the Patriot Act as he promised? OOPS he hasn't -Is that one of the "rapes" of the country that you are talking about?
Unexpected 12.4 percent drop in July latest sign recovery is fading
Cheney/Bush live on in the damage they have done this country. Are your really inane enough to expect it to be fixed in one term?
I expect it to get better after spending 787 billion dollars-
I expect it will take awhile, though it didn't take Cheney/ Bush long to spend that surplus now did it?
There was no surplus- It was all fuzzy math- I guess when Obama and the Dems came out and said we need to pass the stimulus to keep unemployment under 8% and now it is at almost 10% is a success in your mind?
Of course it is a success, because it would have been much worse if the President had not taken the action he took. There was no fuzzy math with the surplus, that only exists in the minds of the Faux News folks.
You need to come up with a new line Dawning- FAUX NEWS is a tired played out line by Dems who are mad because more and more people are turning into Fox then all the Liberal stations combined.
Fiscal
Year
Year
Ending
National Debt
Deficit
FY1993
09/30/1993
$4.411488 trillion
FY1994
09/30/1994
$4.692749 trillion
$281.26 billion
FY1995
09/29/1995
$4.973982 trillion
$281.23 billion
FY1996
09/30/1996
$5.224810 trillion
$250.83 billion
FY1997
09/30/1997
$5.413146 trillion
$188.34 billion
FY1998
09/30/1998
$5.526193 trillion
$113.05 billion
FY1999
09/30/1999
$5.656270 trillion
$130.08 billion
FY2000
09/29/2000
$5.674178 trillion
$17.91 billion
FY2001
09/28/2001
$5.807463 trillion
$133.29 billion
As can clearly be seen, in no year did the national debt go down, nor did Clinton leave President Bush with a surplus that Bush subsequently turned into a deficit. Yes, the deficit was almost eliminated in FY2000 (ending in September 2000 with a deficit of "only" $17.9 billion), but it never reached zero--let alone a positive surplus number. And Clinton's last budget proposal for FY2001, which ended in September 2001, generated a $133.29 billion deficit. The growing deficits started in the year of the last Clinton budget, not in the first year of the Bush administration.
Update 3/31/2009: The following quote from an article at CBS confirms my explanation of the Myth of the Clinton Surplus, and the entire article essentially substantiates what I wrote.
And the Democrats in control for 2 years PRIOR to Obama had NOTHING to do with the economic situation. If you believe that I have some swamp land in Arizona for you.
Even if he was a Muslim.....so what? These repeated lies show the biogotry that the many have in america against non-christians religions.
Brown Teabag--why don't you watch this video and tell me that we have NOTHING to worry about Muslims or the Islam religion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9rofXQl6w&feature=player_embedded
Exactly right Brown Teabag.
And what of the 20% of the population that thinks Bush was behind 9/11- Who do they hate? Are they somehow racist or anti christian?
Is that all you have? Really? I don't know that 20% of the population believe that or not. But that is the best you have to defend Bush? That is very sad.
I did not come here to defend THE EX PRESIDENT -You liberals bring him up as your defense of Obama-
Conservativeman.....even if he was (Obama) Muslim.....so what?
Those that thought 9/11 was US cause also believe the moon landing never happened, there was a second gunman that killed Kennedy, and the sun revolves around the earth....you just pointed out stupid people.....good job
I do not care- I did not bring it up - My point was that there are fanaticals in this country who will believe almost anything
20% of the country thinks Bush was behind 9-11
20% of the country thinks Obama is muslim
McConnell was on MEET THE PRESS the other day and he stated that he takes Obama at his word that he is Christian- What more do you want Republicans to do? There is a fringe element on both sides
And the STUPID PEOPLE you are talking about? Do you think the 20% who believe Bush was behind 9-11 are Republicans or Liberals?
I beleive they are stupid people....Why do you have to defend the stupid republicans with your evidence of stupid liberls? Again.....you pointed out stupid people.....good job
On both sides yes i did - You seem to think and only come on here complaining about the Republicans- MY POINT WAS THEY ARE ON BOTH SIDE- Get it?
Where did i complain about Republicans? My intial statement made no reference to any political party.
Nope, we bring him up as point of fact. You can't erase what the administration did, and the damage it caused, though I don't blame you for wanting to. But, as much fun as this has been, I have just been told my horse is tacked up, and I would prefer to be outside on this beautiful fall day.
Bye - Try and open up your mind to more than what Maddow,Olbermann and Matthews have been spoon feeding you.
This whole religion debate was brought up by the Libs to distract us from Obama ruining the economy.
Well they had to come up with something new since the race card was getting played out
You people are insane! I'm pretty sure that the conservatives brought up the religion issue during the presidential race. And as for the economy, the bush administration drove this country into the ground! Any president that came after him(Bush), dem or rep, wouldve had this huge mess to clean up! It took 8 years for the bush admin. To ruin this country's economy and you blame it on Obama because it isn't all better in three years?! That's absurd! Even McCain said during the pres. Race that it would take a long time to recover.
"It isn't all better in three years" Hell the economy is now on a death spiral with this anti American in charge.
Who is anti_American? I believe that we libs/Dems. were told that if we didn't agree lockstep with Bush that we were anti. So new President new anti-Americans...right rightie?
Barack was 20 years in Rev. Wrongs church listening to hate America speach. oops I forgot he said he didn't hear any of it.
The cow Moooochelle didn't even want to vacation in the US no she had to go to Spain.
Don't forget the first time in her adultlife she was proud of her country was in 2008. Her words.
Barack snubs his nose at our allies, apologises for the USA , and bows down to tyrants.
He is purposley destroying the economy. Who in their right mind thinks anything he has done will stimulate the economy?
As for securing the borders. He needs the new voters to have any chance of reelection.
Whatever Obama is today, he is not a Christian.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cathleen Falsani, who interviewed Obama in 2004 for her book, "The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People" and asked Obama specific questions about his religious beliefs and Obama replied:
"I am a Christian. I'm rooted in the Christian tradition" and then he added something that no true Christian believes. He said "I believe there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people."Falsani correctly brought up John 14:6 in the interview which Jesus says of Himself, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Obama believes there are more than just one path to God ("i.e., higher power").
Obama refutes Jesus Christ. Obama is no Christian.
Let's look at ACTS 4:10,12
"Let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."
Obama refutes Acts 10 thru 12 which states Jesus Christ is the only name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Again, Obama is no Christian.
Obama calls his mother "an agnostic" and he has said of his mother "I think she believed in a higher power," he says. "She believed in the fundamental order and goodness of the universe. She would have been very comfortable with Einstein's idea that God doesn't play dice. But I think she was very suspicious of the notion that one particular organized religion offered one truth." Obama told NEWSWEEK "I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell."
Christians believe, as the Bible teaches, that agnostics who believe in a higher power and have not embraced Christianity go to hell. (See John 3:16- 18 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.")
Again, Obama is no Christian.
So, what is Obama? He is a "Murtadd Fitri."
"Murtad fitri" a person who was born of a Muslim parent, but then declared his disbelief in Islam. http://www.islamic-laws.com/taharatandnajasat.htm
Obama's father was Muslim.
Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi states children born of Muslim lineage are Muslims. "In any case the heart of the matter is that children born of Muslim lineage will be considered Muslims and according to Islamic law the door of apostasy will never be opened to them. If anyone of them renounces Islam, he will be as deserving of execution as the person who has renounced kufr to become a Muslim and again has chosen the way of kufr. All the jurists of Islam agree with this decision. On this topic absolutely no difference exists among the experts of shari'ah."
So what is he is Muslim? or even better, Why does he even have to be Christian?
if you have not listen to wright you should he all but handed out assult gun full automatic rifles and ever one in hes church to out kill white people now if was to do what wright did i would be labeled a rascist now obama listened to wright for 20 plus years and he never heard any thing racist if not why did he dump the rev wright
if he is not a muslim then why is he forever kissing there feet he for sure is not a chirstian hes wife says hes home country is kenya now why would she this i dont care were is the birth certifcate i have allways been lead to belive you had to submit your papers to run for office proof that you are a american and you were old enough to take the office o president it seems to me like he dont have to prive any thing
You write really long sentences.
And badly.
Hello America, well as I always say, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, maybe it is a duck. ones thing for sure Barrack Obama in his early years was affiliated with the Muslim community, and he was also a staunch follower of the Revered White in Chicago, another Black Preacher worthy of a national holiday. sincerely Fezzy Bear