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The Obama backlash. It's started.
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| Last Edited | COSDem Dec 21, 2006 04:29pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, December 21, 2006 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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While Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is vacationing in Hawaii--might be the last quiet time for years, poised as he is for a 2008 White House run-- a body of anti-Obama material is surfacing--centering around his record and his religious beliefs and yes, his middle name, Hussein. It's a backlash--and a foreshadowing of what is to come.
(see previous posts about a column I did on Obama's middle name and a verbatim from Obama on his middle name when he took my question on it while in New Hampshire.)
A website, www.mediamatters.org does a good job of surveying the poorly sourced stories out there--and setting out the record.
this from www.mediamatters.org....release from them on the "swiftboating" of obama below...
Schlussel: Should Obama be president "when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam"?
In a December 18 column headlined "Barack Hussein Obama: Once a Muslim, Always A Muslim" and posted on her website, right-wing pundit Debbie Schlussel questioned the "loyalties" of Obama, given that his middle name is Hussein, his late, estranged father was of Muslim descent, and he has shown interest in his father's Kenyan heritage |
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