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WHY OBAMA? #9
Barack Hussein Obama is not a Muslim.


I'm rooted in the Christian tradition.
"I Have A Deep Faith" - Chicago Sun-Times, 5 Apr 2004

"I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that."

"It's not (an) Islamic school. It's general," Winadijanto said. "There is a lot of Christians, Buddhists, also Confucian. ... So that's a mixed school."

Obama has noted in his two books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," that he spent two years in a Muslim school and another two years in a Catholic school while living in Indonesia from age 6 to 10.

Urban Myths:
Claim: Illinois senator Barack Obama is a "radical, ideological Muslim."
Status: False
All of the claims about Senator Obama's faith and education raised in the Insight Magazine story and repeated on Fox News are false. Senator Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother. Obama's stepfather worked for a U.S. oil company, and sent his stepson to two years of Catholic school, as well as two years of public school.

-Barack Obama's Senatorial Web site.

Clinton Chairwoman Dismissed Over E-mail on Obama
Though her name still appears on the Clinton campaign's Website.
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign dismissed an eastern Iowa county chairwoman on Wednesday in light of an e-mail she forwarded warning that rival Barack Obama was a Muslim intent on destroying the United States. ... Anamosa Democrat Judy Rose, who served as Clinton's Jones County chairwoman, forwarded the e-mail on Nov. 21 to eight people, including Jones County Democratic Party Chairman Gary Hart and a Clinton campaign aide.

The Clinton aide, Ryan Callanan, replied after receiving the e-mail from Rose. "It's racist and ignorant," he wrote, according to a message chain provided by the campaign. "I can't believe that people believe this stuff."
SOURCES:

CNN debunks false report about Obama - CNN, 23 Jan 2007
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CNN Debunks False Obama 'Madrassa' Smear -Think Progress, 22 Jan 2007

Snobes Urban Legends 23 Jan 2007
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Clinton chairwoman dismissed over e-mail on Obama 6 Dec 2007
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