[Dialogue] Fact Check re: Obama

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Thanks, Del,
Yes, this is disgusting.  Another paper (similar to National Enquirer) had a front page headline last month: "Obama's hidden ties to Al Queda".  Last week -- again on the front page it had a photo of a grizzled white guy with the headline, "I slept with Obama".  I went to the Publix store manager and told him he shouldn't be selling such trash in our community.
Cynthia


This appeared in the newspaper February 28.  I just hadn’t had a chance to send it on until now.

 

FACT CHECK

 

Some of the rumors and allegations about Barack Obama are clearly not true, yet still spread, often anonymously.

 

1.  A debunked chain e-mail circulating widely suggests he is hiding his Islamic roots.  It says he was sworn into the Senate on the Quran and turns his back on the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance.  Actually, he took his Senate oath with his hand on a family Bible, and he says, “Whenever I’m in the United States Senate, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.”

 

2.  Another false report says he attended a Muslim madrassa as a child in Jakarta.  Obama was born in Hawaii and moved to Indonesia when he was 6 to live with his mother and stepfather. He returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.  Interviews last year by the Associated Press at the elementary school in Jakarta found that it is a public and secular institution and has been open to students of all faiths since before Obama attended in the late 1960s.  




-----Original Message-----
From: Del Morrill <del at hypnocenter.com>
To: Order Ecumenical <OE at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 1:56 pm
Subject: Fact Check re: Obama




This appeared in the newspaper February 28.  I just hadn’t had a chance to send it on until now.

 

FACT CHECK

 

Some of the rumors and allegations about Barack Obama are clearly not true, yet still spread, often anonymously.

 

1.  A debunked chain e-mail circulating widely suggests he is hiding his Islamic roots.  It says he was sworn into the Senate on the Quran and turns his back on the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance.  Actually, he took his Senate oath with his hand on a family Bible, and he says, “Whenever I’m in the United States Senate, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.”

 

2.  Another false report says he attended a Muslim madrassa as a child in Jakarta.  Obama was born in Hawaii and moved to Indonesia when he was 6 to live with his mother and stepfather. He returned to Hawaii when he was 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.  Interviews last year by the Associated Press at the elementary school in Jakarta found that it is a public and secular institution and has been open to students of all faiths since before Obama attended in the late 1960s.                                                     (from the Associated Press)

 

 

 

Del Hunter Morrill

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http://www.hypnocenter.com 

 

There can be nothing to frighten you if you refuse to be afraid. (Mahatma Gandhi)

 



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