All the News that Fits.
Gateway Pundit points us to the Obama's Gaffes blog site (How many more gaffes until we can call him Stupid !), which notes that the NYT article describing Obama's Muslim upbringing in Indonesia:
"I was a little Jakarta street kid," he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics -- and more likely to be aware of their nationalism -- if he once studied the Koran with them.
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
Moreover, Mr. Obama's own grandfather in Kenya was a Muslim. Mr. Obama never met his grandfather and says he isn't sure if his grandfather's two wives were simultaneous or consecutive, or even if he was Sunni or Shiite.
Alas! Not to be found at the NYT...except a copy still resides on Obama's website: Obama: Man of the World
Maybe it's the heartburn of trying to give this guy cover that will get the Times before the heart attacks get to the Alabamans?
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I think it probably has something to do with the rumors accusing him of being a Muslim, and the anti-Muslim slander in general. Isn't it better to have a leader that truly understands our enemy than one that has only second-hand knowledge? Unfortunately much of the American public does not agree with this, which is to the detriment of all of us.
ReplyDeleteI dunno, Oren. I tend to think more knowledge and openness is better than less.
ReplyDeleteIf the author/editor of the NYT piece changed his mind or obtained new information, you add that to what you wrote before, you don't erase or hide what was said in the past and pretend it never happened.