A can’t answer that but I do know what is considered a public school in Italy and Ireland would be considered a Catholic school here. Crucifixes in the classrooms and all.

I doubt Indonesia has separation of church and state.

If memory serves, it was Hillary Clinton%u2019s election team that brought forth questions about Obama%u2019s Muslim background. This was picked up in a January 16th, 2007, story by the conservative Insight Magazine which was basically summed up with the question, “Are the American people ready for an elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?” By the 23rd Obama%u2019s campaign offered the retort, “All of the claims about Senator Obama’s faith and education raised in the Insight Magazine story and repeated on Fox News are false. Senator Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother. Obama’s stepfather worked for a U.S. oil company, and sent his stepson to two years of Catholic school, as well as two years of public school.” His campaign also offered, %u201CTo be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim.”

So OK%u2026. That is all well and good however it is inconsistent with Obama%u2019s own autobiographical work %u201CDreams of My Father,%u201D wherein he states, “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 Koranic studies.” By his own admission, Obama did attend a “Muslim school” and as required he engaged in “Koranic studies.” In addition releases from Obama%u2019s own campaign his sister, Maya Soetoro, stated that Obama did in fact attend the Mosque with his family, “for big communal events not every Friday.”

This begs some questions. Are the public schools in Indonesia all Madrassas that require Koranic studies? If not, why use the parsing, %u201Cpublic school?%u201D Why such an ardent attempt to distance himself in America%u2019s eye%u2019s from any notion of Muslim influence in his early life?

Clearly, what emerges here is cumulative dishonesty on Obama%u2019s part as well as a disposition to doubt the capacity of the American people to be other then bigots not to be trusted with the full-and-complete truth as regards his early childhood influences.

This issue does not revolve around religion as much as character.

I disagree in that I think you are glossing over some legitimate issues. He my be a Christian “Now”, but his name is Barack Hussein Obama, he was raised in a Muslim Country, and studied the religion in a Muslim school. His family is full of Muslims and you can not deny that his perspective of that religion, and that of the general American populations is quite different. And we are at war with a foe that is predominantly…Muslim. Not Morman or Catholic… You don’t care I know, but I think you may very well should. Now what this will end up meaning, is any body’s guess, but it is a truth nonetheless.

Weather the KKK endorses McCain is… whatever? The KKK though certainly holds closer values about God and Country to me than fucking Hezbollah! Why do you think Hezbola endorsed him? So its not the endorsement in and of itself, but the underlying meaning of what he stands for to Hezbollah!

I think at this point the cat will do whatever, and I mean whatever he has to do to win the GE! He did start this deal way left, refusing to wear “that” pin, then changed that, and everything else that gets him criticized?!?! So I do feel like with the pin, and the church, and his best fried Rev Wright, his patriotism is definitely in question! At least the kind of patriotism I think of when I think of America!

And then, I agree with you on the multitude of other reasons not to vote for him as well!

Me too, brother! 12 years of Catholic school.

This country screwed up not voting for Romney because he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – a “Mormon”.

Good post!

Turn the TV off. Barely scan the print headlines. Do your own work to make the best choice you feel is right.

Simple. Then go vote!
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