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Posted: 11/1/2004 1:21:54 PM EDT
Had this discussion with my Boss today. Could it happen?

BTW, not all Islamics are terrists but so far,


        all terrorists are Islamic
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:22:31 PM EDT
[#1]
None, never, no way, I'm movin!
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:23:03 PM EDT
[#2]
CA, NY, or IL.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:23:13 PM EDT
[#3]

Michigan... in '08...



Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:23:18 PM EDT
[#4]
If by Islamic you mean muslim, then Illinois will be first as of tomorrow.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:25:05 PM EDT
[#5]
It will be GA, I forgot her name. She is on the ballot and from Atlanta. Being black also she will win.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:26:30 PM EDT
[#6]
In which state is that Obama guy running?  With name like Obama....
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:34:14 PM EDT
[#7]

In which state is that Obama guy running? With name like Obama....


That's the IL guy that Swire is referring to.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:37:28 PM EDT
[#8]

Quoted:
If by Islamic you mean muslim, then Illinois will be first as of tomorrow.



What kind of Muslim professes to be a Christian?

No real muslim.  Unless he is a total liar and evil...  nevermind.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:41:44 PM EDT
[#9]
Yes, its Illinois. Barak Obama. As an Illinoisian, I am completely stumped that anyone in the world climate we are in today, would vote themselves a candidate with that name. Obama, Osama, whats the F'n difference? And he's a democrat. Alan Keyes is his Republican opponent. I will be voting for AK but it doesn't look like much of a chance for him. He's kind of out there on some issues as well. If it wasn't for Chicago, Illinois would proably be a solid Red state.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:44:54 PM EDT
[#10]
coming to CA  real soon...
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 1:51:45 PM EDT
[#11]
Darrell Issa - R-CA
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 2:35:15 PM EDT
[#12]
Michigan
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 2:38:00 PM EDT
[#13]
Already happened. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 2:38:10 PM EDT
[#14]
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 4:44:55 PM EDT
[#15]
Barack Obama will be elected in IL, Keyes doesn't have a chance
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 5:02:51 PM EDT
[#16]
Cali, NY , NJ, or Mass

Michigan will follow within five years
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 5:06:46 PM EDT
[#17]
I don't think Obama is muslim is he?  His dad is from Africa and he has a white mother.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 5:08:26 PM EDT
[#18]
John Skerry converted to islam before he decided against it...it didn't poll right...
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 5:16:51 PM EDT
[#19]

Quoted:
Darrell Issa - R-CA



Issa is a Christian Arab American
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 6:04:23 PM EDT
[#20]
probably CT we are fucked up here...
cant get rid of DODD no matter what it seems :(
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 6:06:36 PM EDT
[#21]
IL sucks.


however, vote Ron Summers for 59th district state senate.

if you're in the area, of course.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 6:10:07 PM EDT
[#22]

Quoted:
NY



Over my dead body!!!!
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 6:20:56 PM EDT
[#23]
I believe Obama outwardly professes to be Christian...here's one commentator's view:

Barack Obama, Man of Faith

August 22, 2004


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by Nicholas Stix

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"I am a Christian.… So, I have a deep faith. I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.

"That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.”

Thus, U.S. Senate candidate for Illinois Barack Obama in a campaign contribution by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cathleen Falsani.

Obama’s supporters include not only constituents and corporations giving him monetary contributions, but scores of alleged journalists who see their job as doing everything in their power to get him elected. As Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass observed, “A conservative Ditka candidacy would also have forced Barack Obama, the anointed one, to actually campaign for the Senate rather than wait for more air kisses from Hollywood liberals and the Eastern press, the Midwestern press, the Western press.”

Obama, an Illinois state senator representing the South Side of Chicago, is in fact a far-left politician who -- as I’ve previously shown -- seeks to force ever more socialist and racist laws and programs on the American people.

Meanwhile, Obama’s media devotees have launched such a successful crusade on his behalf, that in what took on the airs of a coronation, just before the late July Democratic National Convention in Boston, he was chosen by the Kerry campaign to be a keynote speaker. And he acquitted himself stupendously. Between the lines, one can read Obama’s media cadres going from touting the biracial (half-white, half-black) candidate as potentially “only the third African-American to take a seat in the Senate since Reconstruction” (the New York Times’ Bob Herbert), to seeing in him potentially the nation’s second “black” president. It is worth examining the spiritual world of this rising national player.

After emphasizing the transcendence of Obama’s Christianity, Cathleen Falsani would appear to contradict herself, by claiming that “Obama's theological point of view was shaped by his uniquely multicultural upbringing.”

Since his mother was a secular humanist -- and between the lines, sounds like an atheist -- and his stepfather was a Moslem (the late Barack Obama Sr., a Moslem-raised but non-religious Kenyan economist, deserted his family when his son was only two years old), how would that shape the faith of someone who, according to Falsani, “is unapologetic in saying he has a ‘personal relationship with Jesus Christ’”?

I say, appears to contradict herself, since Falsani’s column makes a gruel of Christianity. But on one point, she is clear:

"Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion," he says. "I am a big believer in the separation of church and state. I am a big believer in our constitutional structure. I mean, I'm a law professor at the University of Chicago teaching constitutional law. [Actually, Obama is not a law professor, but a “senior lecturer.” As Chicago Sun-Times columnist http://www.suntimes.com/output/sweet/cst-edt-sweet081.html>Lynn Sweet has pointed out, and I know from six-and-a-half years as a full-time, college adjunct lecturer, “In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles.” As Sweet also notes, however, Obama’s misrepresentation of his academic position is the least of his credibility problems.]

"I am a great admirer of our founding charter and its resolve to prevent theocracies from forming and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country.

"I think there is an enormous danger on the part of public figures to rationalize or justify their actions by claiming God's mandate. I don't think it's healthy for public figures to wear religion on their sleeve as a means to insulate themselves from criticism, or dialogue with people who disagree with them."

Falsani quotes lefty activist, Roman Catholic Fr. Michael Pfleger, of St. Sabina Church on Chicago’s South Side, "I always have felt in [Obama] this consciousness that, at the end of the day, with all of us, you've got to face God. Faith is key to his life, no question about it. [It is] central to who he is, and not just in his work in the political field, but as a man, as a black man, as a husband, as a father.... I don't think he could easily divorce his faith from who he is."

(Martin Luther King Jr. would appear to have been the greatest spiritual influence on Fr. Pfleger, who is obsessed with what he perceives to be white racism, but blind to the very real black variety. Logic is also not Fr. Pfleger’s strong suit, witness the following statement on whites and MLK: “Their anger came from the fact that he would not react to their anger and hatred.”)

So, Obama’s religious faith is and is not transcendent. Thank you, Cathleen Falsani.

Obama the Christian is a devout believer in unlimited abortion rights. He denies the existence of Hell. He came to Christianity through social organizing with activist religious. His devout Christianity derives from the secular humanist “values” his atheist mother imbued him with. He believes, with all his heart, in the separation of church and state – except when he campaigns in black churches, in violation of that separation, and in violation of the tax code. (According to U.S. tax law, any house of worship that permits politicians to campaign within its walls, loses its tax-exempt status. But then, as another Chicago politician, Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr., announced on the radio talk show Nashville This Morning in October, 2000, the separation of church and state and the tax code simply don’t apply to blacks.) Obama wears his religion on his sleeve in black churches, but in dealing with the mainstream media, attacks the same behavior, at least as far as white, conservative Christians are concerned.

The only recognizably Christian position Obama takes is his opposition to same-sex marriage, due to the “religious connotations” of marriage. (“Religious connotations”? What about “civic religion”; the “separation of church and state”; the “enormous danger on the part of public figures to rationalize or justify their actions by claiming God's mandate”? Don’t ask.) This is surely due to the fact that blacks are the racial/ethnic group most adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage, and Obama does not want to rile the one voter bloc on which his candidacy is most dependent. However, I would expect his position on same-sex marriage to begin “evolving” around, say, … November 3. Once Obama is safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, he knows that his black base will stick by him, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse. Then he will doubtless begin the sort of “education” of the Christian black electorate in matters of same-sex marriage, which black leaders earlier conducted in the matter of abortion.

Regarding Obama’s religiosity, which appeared out of nowhere during his social activist work, following his graduation from law school, a line from Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass comes to mind, when the latter explained why Mike Ditka was not prepared for political life. “Ditka doesn't need a political life. And he hasn't spent decades planning for the scrutiny.”

Obama’s closest religious advisers -- Fr. Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who moonlights as the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church – may have quotes from Scripture always handy, but are theologically closer to Karl Marx and black nationalism, than to Christianity. (Union Theological Seminary theologian James H. Cone, who is credited with having founded liberation theology, is a black nationalist who speaks the lingo of Marxian dialectic. And as white Marxists have over the past 40 years adopted the language of race war, socialism and black supremacy have increasingly come to resemble each other. I call the common movement, which is more typically referred to as “multiculturalism,” racial socialism.)

The transcendent-non-transcendent motto the Rev. Wright has given Trinity is, “Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian.”

According to State Sen./Rev. James Meeks’ humble, personal church Web page, “Meeks’ practical and charismatic style of instruction motivates the hearer to take action and has resulted in accomplishments of miraculous proportions.” When the good Senator/Reverend is not accomplishing miracles and other feats “never before documented in history,” he serves as the executive vice president of Jesse Jackson Sr.’s National Rainbow-Push Coalition. Why a man of God would want to be identified with Jackson’s personal den of iniquity is a question only the Rev. Meeks can answer.

Keep in mind the parallels between Obama, his black constituency, and the Democrat party. As black Chicagoans have suffered less and less under racism, they have become increasingly racist. Conversely, once the Democrat party gave up its role as a pillar of Jim Crow, it increasingly has come to trade in race hoaxes. And as leading black preacher-politicians (witness Jesse Jackson Sr.’s former opposition to abortion) and white Democrat pols alike have made “Christianity” indistinguishable from the program of the left wing of the Democrat party, so too have millions of black Christians “revised” their Bibles. And so, just as “rights” have become merely a euphemism for whatever black, “progressive,” or homosexual Democrats desire, so too has Christianity.

Apparently, the only thing that the “Christianity” of Barack Obama, Fr. Pfleger, the Rev. Wright and the Rev. Meeks forbids, is voting Republican.

Now that Obama has a Republican opponent in Alan Keyes, Obama’s media acolytes are working hard to discredit Keyes, a talk-show host who is a former ambassador, and presidential and senatorial candidate. Meanwhile, Obama, who when Jack Ryan was his opponent wanted six debates, has no desire to debate Keyes. Obama & Co. had better stick to their new script or Keyes, a brilliant man who knows the Constitution better than “Professor” Obama does, and whose own Christian faith comes not from Karl Marx or black nationalism (or possibly Unitarian Universalism), but from Christianity, might put some hard questions to Barack Obama.
Link Posted: 11/1/2004 6:23:34 PM EDT
[#24]

Quoted:
Had this discussion with my Boss today. Could it happen? It's happening tomorrow: Barak Obama, IL

BTW, not all Islamics are terrists but so far,


all terrorists are Islamic You couldn't be more WRONG! FARC, IRA, Shining Path, Tamil Tigers, etc - there's a long list of non-Islamic terror groups (most of them are communist, except the Tamilis, who are religeous but not Islamic)

Link Posted: 11/1/2004 6:25:17 PM EDT
[#25]
Obama has a great Christian background doesn't he?

I can not believe ANYONE named Obama could get elected as
a dogcatcher in this country right now....let alone elected to the
U.S.Senate!

WTF is happening to this country?

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