Suddenly, the truth is no longer labeled a “smear!”

The Emergence of President Obama’s Muslim Roots
By Jake Tapper
ABC News
June 02, 2009

The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign.

During a conference call in preparation for President Obama’s trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said “the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to — or before he’s been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world — you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father — obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago.”

Given widespread unease and prejudice against Muslims among Americans, especially in the wake of 9/11, the Obama campaign was perhaps understandably very sensitive during the primaries and general election to downplay the candidate’s Muslim roots.

The candidate was even offended when referred to by his initials “BHO,” because he considered the use of his middle name, “Hussein,” an attempt to frighten voters.

Back then, the campaign’s “Fight the Smears” website addressed the candidate’s faith without mentioning his father’s religion.

Since the election, however, with the threat of the rumors at least somewhat abated, the White House has been increasingly forthcoming about the president’s roots. Especially when reaching out to the
Muslim world.

In his April 6 address to the Turkish Parliament, President Obama referenced how many “Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim majority country. I know, because I am one of them.”

Of course those of us who have been well informed on this matter aren’t at all surprised. After all, Obama only hid his past when he was running for President.

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21 comments so far

KZnextzone
 1Reply to this comment  

And now he’s off for the haji…

June 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Scaramouche
 2Reply to this comment  

One of them as in an American who had a Muslim in his family, one of them who lived in a mostly Muslim country, or one of them as in a Muslim?

June 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 am
blogforce one
 3Reply to this comment  

“The president Experienced Islam on three continents…” Lemme see.. North America, Asia and….Hmmmm what’s the third continent,Oh, Africa! yeah I almost forgot,, he was born in Africa!

June 3rd, 2009 at 3:54 am
philly_nj
 4Reply to this comment  

Taking into Consideration the fact that Barack Obama experienced christianity for 20 years in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ is it fair to ask what kind of Islam Barack Obama experienced on three continents was it the peaceful Islam or the jehad Islam ?
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June 3rd, 2009 at 5:01 am
blogforce one
 5Reply to this comment  

Well, rumor has it so far unsubstantiated that he went to Pakistan on his Indonesian passport in 1981 during the height of Mujediheen fervor in the fight against the Soviets in Afganistan. Who knows who he was listening to? he has not said. You be the judge.

June 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 am
FedUp
 6Reply to this comment  

Looks like something Michelle would wear… ewwwwwww!!!!

June 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
newguy40
 7Reply to this comment  

He is interested in power and politics only! If it’s expedient, he’ll claim he has Druid roots (pun) or worships Zoroaster or Bozo the Clown. What ever it takes to get that vote, money, whatever…

June 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
ThomNJ
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well, if he tells them all that he WAS a muslim as a child, and he tells the muslims that he is now a Christian…..doens’t that mean they must declare a fatwa on his head? afterall, don’t they hate apostates more than anything?

June 3rd, 2009 at 9:27 am
 9Reply to this comment  

@ThomNJ: You may be on to something. If the Muzzie whackos are not declaring a Fatwa on Obama for being an apostate then perhaps they know something about his Muslim background that we do not.

What could that be?

June 3rd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
suek
 10Reply to this comment  

Taqiyya.

No way they’ll rock the boat.

June 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
 11Reply to this comment  

Where’s the Birth Certificate?

June 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Real American Patriot
 12Reply to this comment  

That’s it Mike keep that RUMOR MILL going. Because that’s all you have!

June 4th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Missy
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@Real American Patriot:

Rumor? What rumor? Who needs a rumor when you have screwball facts oozing out of the manchild. What it is about Obama’s muslim roots do you not understand? Maybe if the press was more forthright in covering Obama before the election you, CRAP might have a clue. Heavy on the word might.

Enlighten yourself, here’s a bit of Obama backround. Enjoy:

He has eight half-siblings-seven of them living-by four different marriages or relationships of his parents. His father, Barack Obama, Sr. had four children by a woman he married in Kenya before his 1960 marriage to Obama’s mother in Hawaii. Two of those children-son Aborigo (Roy) and Auma (daughter)-were born before Barack Obama, Jr.

After Obama, Sr. divorced Obama’s mother in 1963 he married another American woman whom he had brought to Kenya and with whom he had two more sons, Mark and David. That marriage also ended in divorce and Obama, Sr. resumed his relationship with his first wife. Obama, Sr. and she had two more sons, Abo and Bernard, although Barack, Jr. wrote in his autobiography that there is some question as to whether another man actually fathered Bernard. Then Obama, Sr. had another son, Geroge by a woman he was involved with but didn’t marry. Following which, Obama’s mother, the former Stanley Ann Dunham (yes, Stanley. She was named Stanley because her father wanted a boy) had a daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng from a second marriage to a man named Lolo Soetoro.

Got all that? Since he has become prominent, unsurprisingly, half-brothers and half-sisters have kept popping up in the news all the time. One just surfaced in China last week. Obviously this adds to the feeling by many Americans that they don’t know who this guy is. As a matter of fact, as his own two autobiographies show, at times he hasn’t known who he is. Then there is the very poignant fact that psychological studies have shown the confusion and instability that comes when a child is abandoned by a father. But Barack Obama was abandoned by two…not one…fathers including his mother’s No. 2, Lolo Soetoro who took over the duties of fatherhood when Obama was six.

Obama says in his autobiography that Lolo Soetoro was a dark-skinned Indonesian student with whom his white mother Stanley Ann Dunham Obama moved to Jakarta. She was shocked as a feminist/atheist 60s radical to discover Soetoro was a male chauvinist so she divorced him…and sent 10-year-old Barack, Jr. to live with her parents in Honolulu while she and Barack, Jr.’s half-sister continued to live in Indonesia. All the while Obama’s polygamous natural father took up again with his first wife, dumps her, then marries another white American woman and adds a mistress, eventually fathering eight kids by four women.

And, there’s more:

http://tomroeser.com/sectionlist.asp?s=&month=8&year=2008

June 4th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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You beat me to it Missy… Poor CRAP. Doesn’t he know it’s OK now to discuss Obama’s Muslim roots?

June 4th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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@Missy:

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Ooof….that was brutal Missy….glad to see you back.

June 4th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
ditto
 16Reply to this comment  

Fickle Obama changing his message. “Look, I one of you guy! Allah Ackbar!”

June 7th, 2009 at 4:21 am

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