Washington – President Barack Obama said Sunday he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim. “The facts are the facts,” said Obama, who is a Christian. In an interview broadcast on “NBC Nightly News,” the president blamed the confusion over his religious beliefs on “a network of misinformation that in a new media era can get churned out there constantly.”
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A poll released earlier this month by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center showed that 18 percent of people believe Obama is Muslim. That was up from 11 percent who said so in March 2009. Just 34 percent said Obama is Christian, down from 48 percent who said so last year.
“I’m not gonna be worrying too much about whatever rumors are floating on out there,” Obama said Sunday. “If I spend all my time chasing after that, then I wouldn’t get much done.”
Asked about persistent accusations that he wasn’t born in the United States, the president responded, “I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.”
NBC anchorman Brian Williams also asked Obama about conservative commentator Glenn Beck’s rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday. While he didn’t watch the event, Obama said, “I think that Mr. Beck and the rest of those folks were exercising their rights under our Constitution exactly as they should.”
The president acknowledged the ralliers’ concerns about the economy and terrorism and observed, “Given the fact that, you know, in none of these situations are you gonna fix things overnight, it’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country.”
Obama added: “I have no doubt that we are gonna rebound and rebound strong. But when you’re in the middle of it, and if you don’t have a job right now, it’s a tough, tough situation.”
Why should he be worried about those meshugaim who think he is a muslim. They didn’t vote for him last time and will probably vote for Palin or some other right wing trogledyte next time. Let him worry about governing and let fox news keep on feeding these bubab meisas to gullible americans.
Why won’t Obama just show us his BIRTH CERTIFICATE????
What is written on his Birth Certificate that he doesn’t want the American People to see???
Why did Obama spend over ONE MILLION DOLLARS (so far) to keep anyone from seeing his ORIGINAL Birth Certificate???
What is he hiding????
Mr. Barack Hussein Obama please show us your original Birth Certificate as required by the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
You swore to uphold the Constitution. DO THE RIGHT THING!!! (I’m not referring to your anti-American Pastor, Jeremiah Right) Show us your ORIGINAL Birth Certificate.
I cant spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead, So y hasn’t he released it yet ?
What birth certificate? He has NEVER produced an original birth certificate!
To says #1 . The one who is gullible, is none other than you, my friend, couse you’r the left wing shoteh who believes he is not woried and is buesy governing, nebeach on u. Bli Neder this rosh hashonoh I will daven you should be zoche to a refueh shelimah
“I can’t spend all my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,”
True, but you can show it and make it public.
A lot of Americans are muslim. By defending that he is a christian, Obama is implying that it is not American to have a non-christian president. The president’s father was muslim and in islam, the religion follows the father. The president is a half-muslim.
I have not a care in the world what religion my president practices. I do have a problem with being sympathetic to terror. The very idea of negotiating with any of them is impossible to digest. We are at war with terror, and we must engage them until their downfall. Islam has characteristically used its houses of worship to incite hate and violence. Nothing even close to Rav Ovadia Yosef who was expressing an opinion.
I am not the victim of misinformation, just the left wing news. It’s sickening. And I swear to vote against the positions of “tolerance” regarding terror at every level. So far, the Democrats are following Obama’s lead on this, and none of them will ever get my vote.
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#1 were was he born has anyone seen his birth certificate he mande a big deal about mccain being born in an american protectorate not in america
Obama is a prophecy come true. If need be I would vote for him again. Baruch Hashem shechiyanu l’azman hazeh.