Hello again. It's me and I'm right back atcha. Live through the convention didya? I'm talking the Democrap convention. About enough to make anyone sick. Let's get on with it. Things are gonna get rough.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here...
I have to open up with this story. It seems like we have a little faux paux to correct here.
Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics; Christina Bellantoni; September 7, 2008; The Washington Times
You must keep in mind that any time a story goes against the left, the media in which it appears is nothing but rag, trash journalism. If the National Enquirer posts a negative story about Palin or Bush or Cheney or any other Republican, it is quoted and treated as gospel. Speaking of gospel, you gotta see this.
Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."
Wonder if he was tired again.
The three words -- immediately corrected -- were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," when he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim.
The text speaks for itself. What more can I add?
But illustrating the difficulty of preventing false rumors about his faith from spreading, anti-Obama groups within one hour of the interview had sliced it out of context and were sending it around via email. They also were blogging about it.
Ever read the innuendos and twisting of words a conservative says to mean something else? Ask Newt Gingrich about his reference to "dying on the vine". Ask George Allen and "Muccaca". Ask Barrack Hussein Obama, er oh, we can't go there...
"The McCain campaign has never suggested you have Muslim connections," said Mr. Stephanopoulos, who repeatedly interrupted Mr. Obama during the interview.
"I don't think that when you look at what is being promulgated on Fox News, let's say, and Republican commentators who are closely allied to these folks," Mr Obama responded, and Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted: "But John McCain said that's wrong."
"Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts". Well Sgt Friday would have a problem with that one. Facts don't matter when it comes to Democrats.
Mr. Obama noted that when Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin "was forced" to talk about her pregnant 17-year-old daughter, he issued a forceful statement to reporters that the line of inquiry was "off limits." But he said the McCain campaign tried to tie him to "liberal blogs that support Obama" and are "attacking Governor Palin."
Yeah, right. Ever go to dailykos.com or moveon.org or democraticunderground.com? How about the Rev Jeremiah Wright flap and you're surrogates trying to tie McCain to Pastor John Hagee? Huh?
"Let's not play games," he said. "What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you're absolutely right that that has not come."
Mr. Stephanopoulos interrupted with, "Christian faith."
Wow, a second slip of the tongue. Let's settle this once and for all, let us go to THE BOOK of authority.
1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
Need I say more?
Get out your hip boots, it is getting deep in here
I have heard it all now (holding nose).
Barack Obama 'wanted to join US military'; By Toby Harnden; 07 Sep 2008; Telegraph.comUK
Now we aren't supposed to question his patriotism.
Barack Obama has said he considered joining the United States military when he left school but decided not to because the Vietnam war was over and "we weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point".
He wanted to go and fight. For someone who berated a journalist about mentioning his ears when he was 46 years old, as an 18 year old, he wanted to go and fight. Sure, I believe that.
The statement is thought to be the first time during the 19-month-long presidential campaign that the Democratic nominee for the White House has indicated he once wanted to serve in uniform. The aspiration was not mentioned in either of his two volumes of memoirs.
Want my take on this? This the first time he thought of it --- period.
Mr Obama is more vulnerable than most Democrats on the patriotism issue because of his exotic life story, his past radical associations, his previous refusal to wear an American flag pin - though he has since relented and is now seldom seen without one - and inaccurate smears that he is a Muslim.
Anyone else know that the UK Telegraph is as liberal as you're going to find anywhere? What they choose to label as "inaccurate" I tend to question.
Hillary Clinton, who Mr Obama defeated in the Democratic primaries, was ridiculed in 1994 for stating that she tried to join the US marines in 1975, the year she married, but was rejected because she was too old and had poor eyesight. Her husband Bill said this year that she had tried to join the US Army.
And Billie-bob himself who protested the Viet Nam war during his college days. As I said earlier, what they choose to say as inaccurate I tend to question. Hey, maybe Obama can claim he was rejected because of ear-sight. It's as good as an excuse as any other and probably more accurate.
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