On Barack Obama Needing To Be Reminded He’s Not A Muslim

Did Barack Obama wear a Freudian slip under his trousers Sunday morning?

In an interview Sunday with ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos, Obama tried to suggest that FOX News and others “closely allied” to Republicans are promulgating the notion that the Illinois senator is Muslim.

Asked about whether McCain himself has done anything to suggest he’s Muslim, Obama said, “Let’s not play games. 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…”

“Christian faith,” Stephanopoulos interrupted, correcting Obama.

“… my Christian faith. Well, what I’m saying is that he hasn’t suggested that I’m a Muslim. And I think that his campaign’s upper echelons have not, either. What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith, something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time,” Obama said.

Obama correctly points out that John McCain has not talked about Barack Obama’s Muslim faith.  Why on earth should he, when he has Barack Obama to talk about it himself?

During the Saddleback debate forum, Rick Warren asked John McCain to define rich in terms of taxes.  And McCain said:

I don’t believe in class warfare or re-distribution of the wealth. But I can tell you, for example, there are small businessmen and women who are working 16 hours a day, seven days a week that some people would classify as – quote – “rich,” my friends, and want to raise their taxes and want to raise their payroll taxes.

Let’s have – keep taxes low. Let’s give every family in America a $7,000 tax credit for every child they have. Let’s give them a $5,000 refundable tax credit to go out and get the health insurance of their choice. Let’s not have the government take over the health care system in America.

(APPLAUSE)

So, I think if you are just talking about income, how about $5 million?

(LAUGHTER)

But seriously, I don’t think you can – I don’t think seriously that – the point is that I’m trying to make here, seriously — and I’m sure that comment will be distorted — but the point is that we want to keep people’s taxes low and increase revenues.

Notice, McCain himself said, “But seriously,” and then said he was sure that the comment about “$5 million” would be distorted.  And he was right.  Barack Obama has distorted it over and over again.

So John McCain believes that people don’t count as “rich” unless they’re making $5 million, and Barack Obama believes in Islam.  If you can claim the former because John McCain said it himself, you can now equally claim the latter, because Barack Obama said it himself.

Barack Obama has jumped over and over and over again on what was clearly a joke.  He doesn’t have integrity, or honor for doing so.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama himself acknowledges that John McCain HASN’T accused him of being a Muslim.  And the fact is, McCain won’t accuse Obama of being a Muslim even after Obama with his own lips says, “my Muslim faith.”

When you consider the way Barack Obama clearly and deliberately misrepresented John McCain’s statement about staying in Iraq for 100 years, and clearly and deliberately misrepresented John McCain over not knowing how many houses he owns (he actually doesn’t own any houses; his wife does via separate finances held in trusts), you can see that there is a pattern to Obama.  Like a sleazy lawyer, he will seize upon any verbal misstatement – even if he has to strip out the surrounding context to turn it into a misstatement – and treat it like a smoking gun.

And all the while fallaciously representing himself as some kind of new politician who represents “hope” and “change.”

It’s the difference between honor and dishonor.  And Barack Obama has been running a dishonorable campaign.  It’s the difference between a man who lives by being a straight shooter, and a man who lives by a double standard.

The hypocrisy and double-standard have exploded into prominince since Sarah Palin was announced as Vice President, and hypocritical double standards flew like rain drops in a hurricane.  But it’s been part of the Obama campaign all along.

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