The Other Religion of Peace
Given the recent news (olds?) on Barack Obama’s wacky brand of Christianity, you’d think that those idjits who harped about “Barack Hussein Obama” as a secret Muslim would be feeling rather embarrassed these days. You’d think wrong. It doesn’t matter that their original story was baseless, silly and 100% wrong. All that matters to these guys is months ago, they told us something really crappy about Obama’s religion, and now the MSM has “vindicated” them by showing that yup, there really is something crappy about Obama’s religion. It’s almost as if some nuts had claimed in 2004 that John Kerry wasn’t really a Vietnam veteran at all, or that he had enlisted in the North Vietnamese navy rather than ours, and then claimed vindication when the SwiftVets surfaced and told us what a crappy U.S. sailor he had been while serving in the Vietnam War.
Tom Maguire has a good piece on the more sensible and deserved attacks on Obama’s disturbingly cozy relationship with Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. Of particular interest is his note that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth originally surfaced early in the primary season, only to be resoundingly ignored. My sole criticism of the group had long been the “fact” that they sat on the news until Kerry’s nomination had been sewn up. The silliest angle of all, I think, is that Obama should get a pass on Wright because he engaged him as a spiritual adviser, not a political one. That’s like saying “Don’t judge me by Mr. God-Damn-America, voters, I only look to that guy to find out what I’m supposed to really believe, not what I’m supposed to say to you to get elected.”
March 17th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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March 17th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Chistianity - Christ + antisemitism = Pretty much Islam.