The President’s Religion

Dennis Prager spent much of the first hour of his today’s radio show explaining about and interviewing callers regarding Mr. Obama’s religion.   Apparently in an article in Time magazine, the writer had claimed that 25% of the Americans thought  the president a Muslim, and 23% could not identify the president’s religious orientation.

Mr. Obama could hardly be called a Christian by his behavior as president.  He could hardly be considered Christian for spending 22 years attending Jeremiah “Goddamn America” Wright’s parish in Chicago. 

He can call himself a member of any religion.   Leftwing politicians have long claimed some kind of affiliation with some Christian group…….usually something innocuous such as Episcopalian.   How one  expresses himself in his daily work….conversations, preachments, expressions of values, political action, sense of humor, anecdote telling,  lecturing is much more telling.

We are told Obama has a religious advisor.  Yet, he has many advisors.  Most likely the majority tell the president what they think the president wants to hear. 

How does he work his Christianity into his expression?   He doesn’t.

He tells us this and that quaint thing about Islam.  Child’s tales…..Sweet talk……He has no sense of humor anywhere, and does not talk much in anecdotes by style.  He preaches when he speaks, and usually in a downward direction toward “his people”. 

America is not his city  lighting the top of any hill.  Obama  projects negativity when referring to the country he leads, even though, admittedly he reads off soothing words about it from time to time, but  never utters any emotion to give example, except to carp about the Cambridge police department, the T-party, or  the opponents of building a mosque adjacent to Ground Zero to celebrate Muslimism. 

Which college or university should Obama have attended where he might have learned some respect for the American struggle?  Are there any?

Obama simply blabs…..He blabs monotonely for certain issues, or he blabs against certain issues in kind.  …….usually  in a near monotone amid a collection of words.  There is no natural humor is his being……or if there is, it is deeply suppressed.  There is nothing  religious that arises in his conversation which indicates passion, except for his didactic explanations of Muslim rituals and traditions.

Obama is as distant to things American as he is to things Christian.  I suppose he could argue that “familiarity breeds contempt”, but then, if that is all one hears from his lips and his writings, he proves my point.

The president carries at least a romance about Islam……totally absent in anything about Christianity.

Barack went to university and law school.   There one learns to rise above such antedeluvian American traditions so primitive as Christianity.  Mr. Obama is, after all, a Leftist.

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No One Can Pack More Conceit, More Condescension into Two Little Paragraphs Than Barack Obama!

“President Obama just can’t help himself. It’s impulse. Every time he sees the American people, in their infinite and confounding ignorance, pursuing a course they shouldn’t, he intervenes to correct them. Such is the view from the clouds on which he placidly floats above us all.

Most politicians speak of the wisdom of the American people. Some even believe it. But not Obama. Time and time again, he takes to the lectern to scold or educate us.

Last Friday, he needlessly jumped into a percolating political controversy — again — to enlighten the uneducated masses. This time the subject was the Islamic cultural center proposed to be built two blocks from Ground Zero, where Islamist terrorists murdered more than 2,700 Americans.

“The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country,” he said, beginning what was to be yet another lecture on what he sees as our failure as a people to live up to our values. “And the pain and the experience of suffering by those who lost loved ones is just unimaginable. So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. And ground zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.

“But let me be clear. As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”

No one can pack more conceit, more condescension, into two little paragraphs than Barack Obama can. In the first paragraph, he establishes that opponents of the Islamic center are reacting purely emotionally. “I understand the emotions that this issue engenders.” In the second, he informs us that, as an enlightened being, he sees this issue properly — it’s about freedom of religion. Appealing to our reverence for the Constitution, he states that “our commitment” (all Americans are bound by creed to agree on this) “must be unshakable.”

These are not the words of a president attempting to lead and unite a nation. They are the words of an academic attempting to instruct a class that he considers particularly thick-headed. And they came unprompted. He didn’t have to address the issue at all. He wanted to. He needed to. His conscience compelled him to.

This is how President Obama so often gets himself into trouble. He didn’t have to weigh in on the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest. But he couldn’t help himself. He had to use it as a “teachable moment” on race relations.

He didn’t have to explain to Joe the Plumber that he intended to “spread the wealth around.” He didn’t have to tell Democratic donors in San Francisco that rural Pennsylvanians salve their bitterness by clinging to guns and religion. But he just couldn’t help himself.

Last year, in his third press conference as president, he couldn’t resist telling Americans to wash their hands and cover their mouths when they cough.

Obama has never transitioned from his former job as a college lecturer. The reason is that he really doesn’t see his new job as that different. It just has more perks, such as the ability to use force when persuasion fails. And the ability to have paid staffers step forward to clarify one’s ill-considered remarks.

The day after asserting that no American should object to an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero — “in lower Manhattan,” as he put it — he contradicted himself, saying, “I was not commenting, and I will not comment, on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That’s what our country is about.”

If he wasn’t giving his approval of a mosque near Ground Zero, then why did he specifically define the location (“lower Manhattan”) where he said we must all be unshakably committed to the right of Muslims to build a mosque?

When the press found his clarification not all that clarifying, the president’s staff rephrased it. White House Spokesman Bill Burton said on Saturday, “What he said last night, and reaffirmed today, is that if a church, a synagogue or a Hindu temple can be built on a site, you simply cannot deny that right to those who want to build a mosque.”

That’s a better way to put it. But it still fails to clarify. Here is why. The question never was one of religious freedom — because the use of government force is not at issue. The question is whether the backers of this Islamic center should build it two blocks from Ground Zero, not whether government should stop them.”

The above article was written by Andrew Cline at the American Spectator under the title, “Our Lecturer in Chief.”

Comment:  Obama critics are getting to know the president better and better after each day’s new crisis.  This is a hands on guy in the Oval office.  He can’t help himself, this Marxist.  He was taught at university.

Charles Krauthammer Sympathizes for Obama Sycophants Now Looking Like Fools

“It’s hard to be an Obama sycophant these days. Your hero delivers a Ramadan speech roundly supporting the building of a mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York. Your heart swells and you’re moved to declare this President Obama’s finest hour, his act of greatest courage.

Alas, the next day, at a remove of 800 miles, Obama explains that he was only talking about the legality of the thing and not the wisdom — upon which he does not make, and will not make, any judgment.

You’re left looking like a fool because now Obama has said exactly nothing: No one disputes the right to build; the whole debate is about the propriety, the decency of doing so.

It takes no courage whatsoever to bask in the applause of a Muslim audience as you promise to stand stoutly for their right to build a mosque, giving the unmistakable impression that you endorse the idea. What takes courage is to then respectfully ask that audience to reflect upon the wisdom of the project and to consider whether the imam’s alleged goal of interfaith understanding might not be better achieved by accepting the New York governor’s offer to help find another site.

Where the president flagged, however, the liberal intelligentsia stepped in with gusto, penning dozens of pro-mosque articles characterized by a frenzied unanimity, little resort to argument and a singular difficulty dealing with analogies.

The Atlantic’s Michael Kinsley was typical in arguing that the only possible grounds for opposing the Ground Zero mosque are bigotry or demagoguery. Well then, what about Pope John Paul II’s ordering the closing of the Carmelite convent just outside Auschwitz? (Surely there can be no one more innocent of that crime than those devout nuns.) How does Kinsley explain this remarkable demonstration of sensitivity, this order to pray — but not there? He doesn’t even feign analysis. He simply asserts that the decision is something “I confess that I never did understand.

That’s his Q.E.D.? Is he stumped or is he inviting us to choose between his moral authority and that of one of the towering moral figures of the 20th century?

At least Richard Cohen of The Post tries to grapple with the issue of sanctity and sensitivity. The results, however, are not pretty. He concedes that putting up a Japanese cultural center at Pearl Harbor would be offensive but then dismisses the analogy to Ground Zero because 9/11 was merely “a rogue act, committed by 20 or so crazed samurai.”

Obtuseness of this magnitude can only be deliberate. These weren’t crazies. They were methodical, focused, steel-nerved operatives.

Nor were they freelance rogues. They were the leading, and most successful, edge of a worldwide movement of radical Islamists with cells in every continent, with worldwide financial and theological support, with a massive media and propaganda arm, and with an archipelago of local sympathizers, as in northwestern Pakistan, who protect and guard them.

Why is America fighting Predator wars in Pakistan and Yemen, surveilling thousands of conversations and financial transactions every day, and engaged in military operations against radical Muslims everywhere from the Philippines to Somalia — because of 19 crazies, all of whom died nine years ago?

Radical Islam is not, by any means, a majority of Islam. But with its financiers, clerics, propagandists, trainers, leaders, operatives and sympathizers — according to a conservative estimate, it commands the allegiance of 7 percent of Muslims, i.e., more than 80 million souls — it is a very powerful strain within Islam. It has changed the course of nations and affected the lives of millions. It is the reason every airport in the West is an armed camp and every land is on constant alert.

Ground Zero is the site of the most lethal attack of that worldwide movement, which consists entirely of Muslims, acts in the name of Islam and is deeply embedded within the Islamic world. These are regrettable facts, but facts they are. And that is why putting up a monument to Islam in this place is not just insensitive but provocative.

Just as the people of Japan today would not think of planting their flag at Pearl Harbor, despite the fact that no Japanese under the age of 85 has any possible responsibility for that infamy, representatives of contemporary Islam — the overwhelming majority of whose adherents are equally innocent of the infamy committed on 9/11 in their name — should exercise comparable respect for what even Obama calls hallowed ground and take up the governor’s offer.”

This article appeared at realclearpolitics and was published at the Washington Post.

Pat Condell Reviews the Jihadi Mosque Planned For Ground Zero As “One Insult Too Far!”

Please watch this video   Check out Pat Condell on Ground Zero mosque: “Is it possible to be astonished, but not surprised?” – Jihad Watch   http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/pat-condell-on-ground-zero-mosque-is-it-possible-to-be-astonished-but-not-surprised.html   Pat Condell is a British stand-up comedian, but this video isn’t comedy, it’s pure truth, and utterly brilliant.  Forward it to everyone you can. Comment:  How is it that a Brit Comedian can see through the webbings  of Jihadi deceit, and the president of the United States and so many of his fellow left wingers are left in the tangle of ignorance?