Fuming mad

I got this forward today:

This is very interesting - please take a few moments and read it
Who is Barack Obama?

Something that should be considered when you make your choice.

If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to all our contacts...it is very scary to think of what could lie ahead for us H ere in our own United States...better heed this and pray about it and share it.

We checked this out on " snopes.com". It is factual. Check for yourself.

Who is Barack Obama?

Probable U. S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white Atheist from Wichita, Kansas. Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii. When Obama was two Y ears old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia. When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a Catholic school. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim. He is quick to point out that, "He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school."
Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that that he is not a radical. Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL ISLAMIC teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world. Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined
the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background. ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran. Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of Allegiance nor will he show any reverence for our flag. While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches. Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy. The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!!!!

I am PEEVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I picked off every single email from the forwarding lists that I could find and sent this reply:

It is true that I don't know the majority of you on this list. I felt the need though to stop this rumor where it is now. I understand that his name is weird and he is not the typical presidential candidate. Whether you are democrat, republican, white, black, Christian or Muslim not a single one of those groups endorse spreading false accusations about a person. Please take a moment to read the following links. Both have researched the accusations present in this forward and emails similar to it.


http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424
specifically pages 4-6
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424/page/4 )
( http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424/page/5 )

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp

An excerpt:
"Swore on Koran? The e-mail says "when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran" – bunk yet again. Obama did not place his hand on the Koran when he was sworn into the U.S. Senate. This claim confuses Obama with the first and only Muslim member of Congress, Democratic House member Keith Ellison of Minnesota. Obama was sworn in using his own Bible, as widely reported in newspaper accounts and pictured above. That's his wife holding the Bible with Vice President Dick Cheney swearing him in. (Under the Constitution, the vice president serves as president of the Senate.)"

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If it matters to you, I am not a Democrat. I am not a Republican. I am a Christian. I am from Texas. I am white. I am an American and proud to be an American, but I become ashamed when I see blasphemous rumors being spread like this. I have represented the US on foreign lands trying to show people that we are an accepting, God-fearing people.


Deuteronomy 13:14 – "Then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly."
Leviticus 19:16 'Do not go about spreading slander among your people.'

Proverbs 10:18 He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Luke 10:32-34 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him.



If you plan to forward an email, please forward THIS email. This email presents the false rumors and the facts that prove them as false rumors.

"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John 8:32).


- Me.

I haven't been this angry in a long time. How can a person's name and color spark so much hatred in an entire nation that prides itself on being accepting and giving. I am ashamed that there is so much bigotry in my own backyard.



Of course my fear is a little deeper than just that people will think poorly of Barack. My son is mixed. His father is from Africa. His middle name and his last name have never been seen by the majority of American citizens. Both my husband and I are Catholic and will raise Handsome in the same religion. But how many people will read his name off of a list or just look at him funny and assume that he is some terrorist? People are afraid of seeing others who look different than they do. What have the American people become? The terrorists have turned my beloved country into a group of hateful, judging, fearful, bigotrous people.

I know it's not everyone. I know it's not even a majority of people who believe the lies that email is spreading. It just makes me so angry that there are people like that out there.

Add to that that AF started today and I'm a grand person to be around today.