Annie
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Are the people that were queried by Pew ignorant, as so many want to argue now? I don't think so. The question of his religion choice controversy, was of his own making. Personally, I don't think he's religious, at all. Not Christian, not Muslim.
Obama has himself to blame for Muslim problem | Washington Examiner
Obama has himself to blame for Muslim problem | Washington Examiner
...In December 2007, with the Iowa caucuses approaching, former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, a Hillary Clinton supporter, said of Obama, I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim. Theres a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal. Kerreys remarks caused an uproar one TV commentator wondered whether they were poisoning the well and Kerrey later apologized.
Eighteen months later, when President Obama traveled to Cairo for a long-awaited speech to the Muslim world, the White House was saying, and the press was reporting, the same thing Kerrey had to apologize for. President Obama is now embracing his Muslim roots, ABC News Nightline announced. President Obamas speech was laced with references to the Quran and his Muslim roots, said USA Today. Obama touched on his own Muslim roots, reported the Associated Press...