Obama still battles e-mail rumors

[babylonsister]

Are people really this clueless, in Iowa? :wtf:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/03/obama-still-battles-e-mail-rumors/

Obama still battles e-mail rumors
Posted: 04:30 PM ET

(CNN) — As he made a last-minute push for votes in Des Moines, Barack Obama was still finding Iowans curious about e-mailed rumors about his religion – or, for one voter, his alleged lack of one.

Zanata Moore-El asked Obama if he was an atheist.

"I'm a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ," Obama said. "Don't read e-mails."

Obama is a Christian, but e-mails speculating on his religious views, including his Muslim heritage, are still circulating despite being discredited.

"I hated having to ask him that," Moore-El told a reporter. "But I heard he was like an atheist. I don't want a president who's an atheist. I'm a firm believer in God. I just really wanted to make sure because I really wanted to vote for him and he has some good topics and everything."

[rinsd]

1. Mr. Moore-El's comments make me sad.

"I hated having to ask him that," Moore-El told a reporter. "But I heard he was like an atheist. I don't want a president who's an atheist. I'm a firm believer in God. I just really wanted to make sure because I really wanted to vote for him and he has some good topics and everything."

[maximusveritas]

2. At least she's open about her ignorance

The polls seem to show that a majority agree with her. Even though I like Obama, it's things like that which make me doubt if he can win in the end.

[rinsd]

5. It just kills me that someone can be entralled w/ a candidate & their positions but....

...drop them like a bad habit because their belief structure is different.

[hobbit709]

7. I'd rather have an atheist as president

than a"self-professed" Christian like shrub and the evils he has done.

[damntexdem]

20. "... no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust ...

under the United States."

It IS a sad commentary.

[MrCoffee]

3. i heard, like, from my cousin's sister's boyfriend's neighbor's dog, like, that he, like

is, like, an atheist. or whatever.

[KingofNewOrleans]

6. I heard he ate an atheist

I'm not sure what the Religous Right's position is an cannibalism when it involves eating an atheist though.

[hisownpetard]

10. Yeah, like, whatever.

[MrCoffee]

12. sha! as if i would ever, like, vote, for, like, an atheist. or something.

[hisownpetard]

15. It makes, like, no diff to me if the guy's an atheist or not, as long as he believes

in Jesus Christ.

[MrCoffee]

16. that's like, a huge diff, okay? it's like the biggest diff ever!

[hisownpetard]

19. Yeah? Well, my middle name is, like, Mary.

[FloridaJudy]

4. The United Church of Christ

Is a very liberal denomination. They married two lesbian friends of mine. Don't let the Repukes know.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

8. Trust me, they're on the case.

"Conservatives: Church is racist
The UCC was formed in 1957 by a merger of churches from Congregational, Christian, Evangelical and Reformed traditions. The denomination traces its roots to Christians who ordained the first African-American minister (1785) and the first woman minister (1853).
It's also home to the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas, the world's largest gay and lesbian church.

Obama and his wife, Michelle, are members of Trinity United Church of Christ, a South Side church led by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who teaches members about their African heritage and preaches a theology of black liberation.

Conservative pundits say the church espouses white racism. But Obama and Wright say black empowerment doesn't mean white inferiority."




http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/437415,CST-NWS-obama21.article

[TwilightZone]

9. It's not just Iowa.

People everywhere forward those idiotic e-mails instead of taking two minutes to figure out that they're false.

[babylonsister]

13. Iowa has been so inundated with politics; that's why I find this

amazing. I know the rest of the country is clueless to a lot of what's going on, but an Iowan? Just found it surprising.

[dbackjon]

14. You mean Iowans are not all knowing about politics

Like some here would lead you to believe.

[babylonsister]

17. No, I meant they've been saturated with it, and figured most people

who go out of their way to meet a candidate would know the basics about that candidate.

[texastoast]

11. Is this old stuff or am I remembering

that belief in a "Supreme Being" is required before one can be President?

[whistler162]

18. I heard a worserer thing about Senator Obama...

I heard he was born in Hawaii, shudder. It could only be worserer if he was born in Honolulu!

How could anyone vote for a person born in Hawaii.

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