Tuesday, April 26, 2011

THE ENIGMA, PART 1: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a minor quibble with Whittle's assessment of Obama Sr.'s religious affiliation mentioned at 07:50:

"By all accounts, Hussein Obama, the President's grandfather had been a devout Muslim. There's very little evidence that his son, Barack Obama Sr. was religious at all. President Obama, himself, writing in Time Magazine says:

"Although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition." link

BHO Sr. followed the faith to some degree, given his polygamous history. He emulated the prophet's example having taken as his temporary possession the non-believer (circa '60's jail bait) - aka Stanley Anne.

Unknown said...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama - Page 163

I realized then, standing in an empty McDoinald's parking lot in the South Side of Chicago, that I was a heretic. Or worse--for even a heretic must believe in something, if nothing more than the truth of his own doubt. -

Unknown said...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama Page 286

And I would shrug and play the question off, unable to confess that I could no longer distinguish between faith and mere folly, between faith and simple endurance; that while I believed in the sincerity I heard in their voices, I remained a reluctant skeptic, doubtful of my own motives, wary of expedient conversion, having too many quarrels with God to accept a salvation too easily won.

Damien said...

Pastorius,

This is certainly some stuff Obama doesn't want us to know. I don't really care about one of his parents being an atheist, but his Marxist background is rather disturbing.