Obama: 'McCain Has Not Talked About My Muslim Faith'

This is not exactly what I had in mind when I said Obama should address his Muslim issue head on:

John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

I'm sure before long we will hear that this clip is taken out of context, that Obama misspoke, and Obama will explain what he really meant to say. In the meantime it sure sounds like an admission that he is or was Muslim.

I did try to find the context of the clip. All I can find is this from ABC:

Obama also suggested that the McCain was behind persistent rumors that Obama is a Muslim rather than a Christian.

"These guys love to throw rocks and hide their hand," Obama said, referring to the Republicans.

Reminded that McCain and his top aides have denied pushing the Muslim rumor, Obama said the rumor is "being promulgated on Fox News ... and Republican commentators who are closely allied to these folks."

He later added, "What I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith."

I have not heard any commentator, Republican or otherwise, promulgating rumors that Obama is Muslim. To the contrary commentators are always careful to point out that he is in fact Christian.

As I said in "Obama Should Confront His Muslim Problem Head On," I was raised to respect others and was taught that I should strive, like God, to be "no respecter of persons." I've always tried to do that. It does not matter to me what a person's religious beliefs are. What is important to me is that our leaders have some religious belief.

UPDATE: Via Allahpundit, we learn that the context of the Obama Muslim admission thing indicates something different than does the above clip:

I still say Obama should address his Muslim problem head on.

Comments

[Douglas Keachie]

Guess what? I guess this is a real surprise to several folks here. We are NOT the only superpower on the planet. Russia and China can cause Armageddon, each one, all by themselves. Russia sits on oil and nukes and space sciences, China sits on the biggest industrialized workforce since Walter Ruether, coal, and nukes too.

It's obvious from the discussions here that the Ryght thinks a nominal ghetto kid doesn't know how to fight, and that many of them will be darn glad if he is assassinated, the sooner the better. I'm not going to waste too much time here any more. I'm going to post signs and bumper stickers, earn more money for donations to both Obama and Brown, and leave you with a reminder of how great it is to have Corporrate America in charge.

FOR 30 YEARS the NTSB has been telling the train companies to put in positive fail-safe, not prone to human error train controls on that stretch of track down South. For 30 YEARS the technologies been available. A country ruled by the quarterly bottom line is a COUNTRY BOUND TO KILL ITSELF OFF.

How STUPID can we get?

Wait, wait, don't tell me. Believe the tobacco company scientists, they were just as smart as today's oil company scientists, our mortgage brokers and banks, and stock brokerage houses, and of course GM, which killed its own starting to be successful electric car back in 2000, because it would compete with the gas models.

AR, please review the repeat demands of the USA to go in and enforce sanctions on Iraq. How the heck would you do this WITHOUT INVADING? Those are your repeated threats. You have lipstick on the brain case, letting doctors know where to begin the lobotomy....needed because of too much lying by omission and twisting. Palin called herself a dog before anyone else did. No more, "God told me to do it," folks in the White House. They all have bad connections to Heaven, and static in their souls.

[TEE]

HE IS A MUSLIM AND HE WOULDN'T FORGET IT...REMEMBER AMERICA IF HE GETS IN, HE AND HIS TERRORIST FRIENDS WILL MAKE AMERICAN BLOOD FLOW THROUGH THE STREETS. THAT'S WHAT THE MUSLIMS CHANT IN THE MOSQUE WHEN THEY PRAY!!!