Mar
11
2008
Not the best way to dispel those ‘Barack Obama is a Muslim’ rumors
Posted by Neocon in 2008 Race, Obama(via Gateway) If you’re going to attack those rumors head on as the AP recently did in a roundabout way with Obama’s grandmother:
Obama’s grandma slams ‘untruths’
Obama’s grandfather had converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism and taken the name Hussein, Sarah Obama said, but his children had inherited only the name, not the religion. Each person should be able to choose how they worshipped, she said.
“In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents,” she said. She, too, is a Christian.
Then you should probably make sure you’re correct in your righteous indignation…
Doesn’t matter that they were flat wrong, it sounded good when they were leading the charge. Truth isn’t as important as perception.
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