was watching Morning Joe today, and someone (I don’t recall if it was Mika or Joe, or whom …) was lamenting the fact that polling shows us that 39 percent of Americans (read yokels) mistakenly believe Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia, etc.
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The only problem is that this contradicts Obama’s own words …
On page 154 of “Dreams From My Father,” Obama writes:
“In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during the Koranic studies.”
And on page 204 of “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama has a slightly different recollection, writing:
“During the five years that we would live with my stepfather in Indonesia, I was sent first to a neighborhood Catholic school and then to a predominantly Muslim school.”
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HERE’S MY POINT: If there is confusion about whether or not Obama attended a Muslim school, it does not come from ignorant people … rather, it comes from people who actually took the time to read his books – and believe him…
As such, you could argue that the biggest source of the Muslim rumors is Obama himself. He’s the one who wrote and published the rumors — not some right-wing cabal.
Why is this important? The liberals who are vigorously trying to “set the record straight” act as if conservatives are the ones who pulled this out of thin air in order to fool a bunch of rednecks living in places where one must cling to guns and religion.
But Obama’s own book says he attended the Muslim school.
Filed under: NObama | Tagged: Dishonesty, Hypocrisy, Mysterious Background
