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By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyNow for something completely different. Back in August, the Pew Research Center made a splash with a poll headlined, "Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim." A new national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly one-in-five Americans (18 percent) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009. That was something the satirical newspaper, The Onion, couldn't resist. It published its own version on Wednesday: WASHINGTON-According to a poll released Tuesday, nearly 20 percent of U.S. citizens now believe Barack Obama is a cactus, the most Americans to ...
Hey, Glenn Beck: You Should Listen to Rev. Jeremiah Wright
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyObama doesn't believe in God? Of course he does. Here's a simple reason why. After sitting on a pew Sunday after Sunday listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as Obama once did, no one could doubt the God of the Bible exists and no one could pretend to be a believer to boost an image or political future. The talk about Obama and God stems from remarks by Glenn Beck, who raised doubts about the president's religious beliefs after the talk show host's D.C. rally last Saturday. As Politics Daily editor Melinda Henneberger wrote, Beck's rally wasn't about politics, so Beck said, but rather ...
Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Defending Obama's Christianity, Attacking Bush on Iraq
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyWhen the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. preaches, the sermon is still fiery and peppered with politics. Wright, who once served as President Barack Obama's minister at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, spoke Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the New Millennium Church, a small Baptist church that has spent the month studying faith and community. Wendell Griffen, a former state Court of Appeals judge, is its pastor. Wright used the biblical story of Elisha and the Aramean attack (2 Kings 6:8-17) as a jumping off point to discuss God, slavery and George W. Bush and what Wright called his ...
'Obama's a Muslim,' and the US Has How Many Senators?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Much hoopla is accompanying a new poll that found that 18 percent of Americans think President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Meanwhile, an even newer survey, conducted after Obama defended the "ground zero mosque" project, found that the number was even higher: 24 percent. But the fact that only a quarter of the country believes our Christian president is a Muslim actually should be heartening, seeing as on most other domestic political matters, Americans are profoundly more uninformed. Let's look at a few other notable snapshots of American confusion and/or ignorance. Several years ...
'Obama Is Muslim' -- Poll Says That More People Believe It
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyLast week, I posted about an "invisible thumb" on the balance beam of human judgment that makes it hard for most people to logically evaluate some kinds of information. It may turn out that our brains are hardwired with more "thumbs" than a drawerful of mittens. Enough to make me wonder how we ever get anything right. Case in point: The persistent belief that President Barack Obama is a Muslim. The Pew Research Center just released the results of a survey taken almost a month ago: "Do you happen to know what Barack Obama's religion is? Is he Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, ...
Jake Tapper Gets Unfairly Pilloried for Obama 'Muslim Roots' Article
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyMedia Matters, Gawker, and DailyKos, to name just a few, are out for blood -- Jake Tapper-flavored, Venti, please. Why the outrage? Here's what Gawker says:ABC News' Jake Tapper, seemingly bored silly on a flight to Riyadh, or maybe just experimenting to see how many links he could get from wingnut websites, published perhaps the most imbecilic article in the history of journalism on ABC.com. With a title, "The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots," that just pathetically screams "please link to me Matt Drudge," Tapper regurgitates a slew of widely known facts about Obama's family's ...
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