IS BARACK A TERRORIST MUSLIM!?

NO.

& my other political ramblings.

So I was talking to my mother today. Myself, and my entire family are supporters of the Democratic Party. Various reasons for each member, but never the less, we're all quite liberal. During this discussion we were discussing Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. My mother made the most RIDICULOUS statement I'd ever heard about Barack. She claimed, "I don't trust that man Nicki, he's a Muslim - won't even say the pledge of allegiance, I think he could be the next anti-christ or something." This would be the typical view point of an uneducated mid-ohio vallian. There were a lot of rumors spread through out the INTERNET, of Barack being Muslim.

So, I did my research, and I figured, hey - I'm going to go ahead and clear this up myself. So yes - here goes.

Here's the background information:

Barack Hussein Obama,  was born in 1961 in Honolulu Hawaii as a US CITIZEN, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr.(born in Kenya, never claimed to be muslim) and Ann Dunham (of Kansas - who's family had beliefs based in methodist and baptist religion) - who were both attending college at University of Hawaii. They divorced when Barack was two years old and his father moved to Connecticut to finish his education, while Barack remained with his mother.  When Barack was six his mother remarried a man from Indonesia. They moved there for 5 years where Barack was enrolled in both Catholic and Muslim based schools - although religion was not the sole issue for the schooling. These were simply the best schools available. In Barack's 2006 Book - Audacity of Hope, he claimed that "my mother was less concerned with me learning catechism or puzzling out the meaning muezzins call to evening prayer than she was with whether  I was properly learning my multiplication tables."

Yes, it definitely sounds as if Barack was being raised to become some heinous terrorist, planning since babyhood to take over America and all of it's components.

Let me continue...

While growing up Barack's mother, whose family consisted of united Methodist and Baptists, educated Barack in many religions where the books of the bible and Koran were both incorporated. She was not so much concerned with forcing any religion on him, but rather teaching him the important values and morals based in most religions.

The only contact Barack had with his birth father was when he was eleven years old when Barack Sr. came to visit him for Christmas time. His father died when he was twenty-one years old.  So, there was little room for his father to influence him - regardless of whether he had any Muslim beliefs or not.

In the 1980's Barack came to Chicago Illinois to work as a community organizer working with many African American churches in the area. Before long, Barack felt that rather than working with the churches, he wanted to begin attending them. He claims that he was "saved" 16 years ago, at Trinity's United Church of Christ. And to this day, is very active within this church still.

As the video link'd above displays, presidential hopeful, Mr. Obama announces that he has lead the pledge of allegiance in the senate many times, and has in fact swore on the bible.

TO SUM THIS UP

Barack is not a Muslim, but a member of the Church of Christ and has been officially for over sixteen years. He did attend school in Indonesia, although the primarily Muslim school was a general education learning atmosphere which did not influence religious values on him, simply the best education Indonesia had to offer and attended private Catholic school as well. His father nor step father tried to convert him to Muslim religion. He does recite the pledge of allegiance, and will swear in on the bible.

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My feelings on the topic...

As are many people in the American Spotlight, so to say , he is a victim of misfortune in internet media and news media, which runs with any information they get and publicize, publicize, publicize!!! All they want is dollars, and of course a story claiming a presidential hopeful is an ISLAMIC MUSLIM TERRORIST, is going to get some clicks and reads. People don't research their information well enough. Ignorance, got to love that right?

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My political views

Barack is my favored presidential candidate, in case you haven't noticed yet and I'm extremely excited to participate in this year's election. I think that McCain's liberal republican stance is tolerable, and feel that he is a fairly likeable guy. Romney is incredibly too conservative for me, sorry. Next, as interesting as I think the Clinton family is, I'm really sick of all the political slander slipping out of Bill's mouth, and think we've had enough lying and misdirection from that family in the white house already. Sorry Hillary, but your husband lost your vote for me. I prefer McCain to Hillary. Hopefully Barack becomes the head for democrats. If it does end up Hillary (this is my backup plan), I hope that McCain wins the republican vote, so I can go with him. There's a lot happening with all this for the next week, so yes. =] We'll be seeing soon

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VOTING

I don't know if anybody else is nearly as interested in this as I am, or if anybody will ever read this. Regardless, I think it's important for young Americans to be informed and CARE about what is going on with our countries government. This is the future, and I feel that after the Bush administration, there is only room to move up. Honestly, I don't care who you vote for, but please vote. Don't waste your ability to voice your opinion in this country that just gives some other idiot the chance to make his or her vote count more.

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Sorry for all the jumping around, but I've been in class all day and have a lot on my mind, I'm not spell checking this either - so don't hold this against me or question my intelligence too terribly much, I'm exhausted haha.

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