Clinton Says Obama Muslim Rumor Not True “As Far As I Know”

Here is another article all who needs an answer to this question can check and come to their own conclusions!!!
On February 20, Firas Ahmad comments on “Our Obama Problem”
“But for many reasons, Muslims are one constituency Obama does not want to court. With a wink and a nod, Obama’s Muslim supporters continue to work for a candidate who cannot afford to wink back at them. Given his perceived “closeness” to Islam, and the fact that he shares a name with a former Iraqi dictator, it could be strategic suicide for the Obama campaign to vocally acknowledge organized Muslim support. At a time when endorsements are worn like badges of honor, no major candidate is looking for the Muslim vote.”

Actually this is 60minutes trying to siphon wavering votes for Hillary.Obama better stay off the camera till the 5th.

Why would you compare being a Muslim to killing somebody? It’s just wrong.

OBAMA’S BAD JUDGEMENTS:
1) lets pull out of Iraq now and go back in tomorrow.
2) lets bomb Pakistan without their consent if we find that alqeada is there….no considerations that Pakistan is a nuclear weapon owner
3) voted ‘present’ when most of his colleagues fought to avoid sex shops from being set up next to schools
4) voted no when his colleagues tried to cap the credit card companies from raising rates
5) voted for the Cheney energy bill that has pillaged the tax payers money w/o much returns
6) opted to send out fliers noting a quote that his opponent did not make
7) opted to partner up in a real estate deal with a man under investigation of political fixing and money laundering. 8) Opted to take over 100K in donations from the same man who was still under investigation for political fixing and money laundering.
9) Opted to sustain a spiritual counseling relationship with a pastor who had proclaimed that his hero is L Farrakhan who promotes hate against whites and Jews.
10) Opted to criticize opponents of having close proximity with lobbyist when he had regular basketball games and poker games with lobbyist while in the IL legislature. OBAMA’S GOOD JUDGEMENT: 1)….But he made a speech against the Iraq war. Summary: One mediocre judgment do not equal “good judgment”

First off, if Obama was a muslim – so what? It’s obvious from how he and his family live their life that they would be complete middle-of-the-road muslims. No different than say Jews or Christians in this country.
We are one of the few countries where a Sunni could live next door to a Shiite, with no problems. Muslims live here, because they’d *die* back home. All they want to do is raise families, run their businesses, and maybe if they are lucky, make Hajj. They don’t want to bother anyone. They don’t want to blow anyone up, and they CERTAINLY don’t want Hillary Clinton implying that they do.
The name Hussein means “handsome” not “Death to the Infidel”. For every enemy “Saddam Hussein”, there was an ally “King Hussein”.
We’re fast approaching the point where muslims are being demonized, and I’m getting tired of it. Even Obama is started to tread too close to that line for my tastes in his denials, and it’s all because of Hillary Clinton’s racist campaign strategies. She should be ashamed of herself.
First she tries to alienate women from men, then blacks from latinos, and now muslims from everyone else. While I’m an atheist, I’d be happy to be wrong if that means she has some place to roast for eternity.
She is truly a reprehensible person.

Hillary’s equivocation tonight is the same kind of dirty politics that her campaign specializes in. Doesn’t she get it? That’s what we, the voters, are sick and tired of! And that’s why Obama is replacing our cynicism with new hope.

The two-time Bush voters that are dominating these blogs should be ashamed for even being involved with an election this year. Your track record is abysmal, why do you keep attempting to create chaos between Clinton and Obama? In the end, the party will unite. Go listen to Rush and be quiet.

This simply shows how dishonest and hypocrit she can be.
Fortunately her days are coming to an end.

Why can’t Hillary just say No, he isn’t nor does it matter! This makes one think that she really did release that picture in hopes to hurt Senator Obama’s campaign. She just doesn’t stop reminds me more of Bush everyday

this is total media spin, go to
Saturday Night Live’s website to watch how ridiculously slanted these guys are … it’s probably because Obama’s black and it’s bad corporate strategy to look like you’re anti-black

Why did Steve Kroft feel it necessary to ask Hillary Clinton 3 times about her believing whether or not Barack Obama was a Muslim? She answered “Of course not” the first time. Wasn’t that good enough for him? How ridiculous!
And the hypothetical used here is absolutely unbelievable. Asking someone if they believe a person is a Muslim or not does not begin to equate with if they believe a person had someone killed!
Barack Obama wrote a book which included information about his heritage which included him having Muslim roots. All this information was available to the public before this election process began.

Hillary’s “as far as I know” leaves the question wide open to speculation.
I, myself, have used those same words when I am not sure about something. I think you could say, “as far as I know” equates to “I really don’t know”. SHAME ON YOU HILLARY CLINTON!!!
Hillary, you need to drop out of this Presidential race and let the country move forward. You are truly a disgrace to our democracy and to our country. Just go away and stay away. We are very tired of you and your “beat around the bush” answers to questions
presented to you. You never seem to have an honest answer.
I have concluded Hillary is mentally unstable. No sane person behaves in the manner she does.

It is amazing how we Americans are talking negatively about the notion of “Obama being a Muslim”
So what if he was a Muslim, or Jew, or Mormon, or Hindu, or Buddhist? Does this change anything? Does this mean he will be able to govern outside the boundaries of the Constitution of the United States of America?
Are we saying that it slipped the mind of our founding fathers that if a non Christian was elected to the office of the presidency of the United States then the constitution will be in danger?
What kind of constitution is this?
This is a constitution that has stood the test of time including a civil war, liberation of slaves, the election of a Catholic to the presidency and his assassination, Watergate and its resignation, and Monica Lewinsky with its impeachment!
It is a shame to consider that if an American Muslim, American Hindu, American Sikh, American Mormon, American Jew, American Buddhist or any other American denomination was elected to the highest office in the land then the constitution will be in grave danger.
The constitution will be just fine. (And no this is not plagiarism. I did not borrow this from Clinton’s last line in the Texas debate)
The constitution will always reflect the collective wisdom of the people of this beautiful country where any loyal American will be allowed to serve within its boundaries.
Please, let us stop this kind of talk because at the end of the day we are only dwarfing our potential.

Clinton gave the sort of answer one would expect to see on SNL, complete with wink-wink, nudge-nudge and a knife in the back.
But you know…after she brought up SNL in the debate, and then appeared on the show, I’m wondering if she knows the difference between SNL and real life? Maybe she’s actually delusional.
We’ll see what she does on The Daily Show – Jon Stewart is certain to ask her about this ‘episode’.

She knows from internal polling that many of her supporters, especially in rural Texas and rural Ohio, believe these Internet lies. She can’t afford to lose the ignorant-white-racist vote, or she might lose Texas and Ohio. So she intentionally lets the doubt linger. She knew darn good and well what the effect of her carefully chosen words would be. She smiled the whole time, pleased to have the opportunity to reinforce the Internet lies one more time on national TV right before the election. Vile. Just vile.

Why don’t you pay attention to her first direct answer:
STEVE KROFT: You don’t believe that Senator Obama’s a Muslim?
HILLARY CLINTON: Of course not. I mean that’s, you know, that, there is no basis for that. You know, I take him on the basis of what he says, and, you know, there isn’t any reason to doubt that.
It’s all said right there.
I don’t even see why he asked her more.

hillary has overstayed her welcome in this race

Re. the attempt to smear Senator Obama with his association with “Muslim” and the snarky remarks about the middle name that was foisted on him by his father at birth:
In old tyme England, a noble who went against the King would have his lands confiscated. In addition, to put the “fear of God” into people, the king would forbid that noble’s sons and grandsons from being able to ever own land. This is what was behind the concept of “corruption of blood.”
The Founding Fathers of this country did not believe in the concept of “corruption of blood.” That’s why they wrote in the constitution that there “will be no corruption of blood.” The Founding Fathers did not believe that the “sins of the fathers” should be visited on the sons.
I beg all who read this posting to please judge Senator Obama on his own greatness.
Peace.

Hillary had a golden opportunity to set the record straight– not just on Obama but on how much being a Muslim should not matter, that Muslim is not the equivilency of terrorist or even enemy of the American people and to think in those terms is prejudiced and undemocratic. Frankly, her failure in this makes her look like a certain brand of Republican, reinforencing that she quietly enjoys the benefit religious smearing has afforded her. Grostesque.

If she’d just said “Of course not” and left it at that, that would’ve been fine. But when she follows it up with things like “I take him on the basis of what he says” and “There’s nothing to base that on. As far as I know” she implies that she has no knowledge of any evidence either way and is just taking him at his word, and you know, maybe he’s lying. Now there’s no way she’s not aware he’s a practicing Christian with 20 years membership of the same church – so why the ambivalence?
Maybe we’re reading too much into it, but even if we are, I’d expect a potential President to be able to answer questions unambiguously if they wanted to. Either way, whether she’s deliberately being ambivalent or accidentally, it’s not good.

“As far as I know…”
How can anyone support this woman?

People – Obama was born to a muslim father. He attended islamic schools as a child with his stepfather. He has surrounded himself with advisors who are either muslim or support extremist groups such as Hamas. Look into the background of Soros, Zogby, Brzezinski, Malley. Look at his close friend and pastor Jeremiah Wright and their support for Louis Farrahkan. People WAKE UP!

Obama’s not a Muslim. But there’s nothing wrong with being Muslim anyway. It’s a helluva lot better than being a Fundamantalist Christian. Now THOSE people are scary.

I think, after all that has happened over the course of the election, with Clinton’s own staffers spreading a rumor that Obama is Muslim, the leaked photo, and the backlash from equivocal comments in SC, Clinton should have known enough to answer this one clearly. It required a simple, direct answer — “no, I don’t believe he’s a Muslim” — and it would have been over. The reporter pressed her because she was ambiguous in her answer. She left it open to court votes, but this also encourages racism, xenophobia, and fear-mongering against Muslims. A presidential candidate, as Clinton herself noted in the last debate, needs to be firm to put such things to rest. She can’t even live up to her own ethics. I’m terribly disappointed in her response and in the way her campaign has encouraged these rumors.

Hillary the Hypocrite. Barack Obama is forced ad nauseum to “denounce and reject” for days on end, but when Hillary’s supporter Adelfa Callejo made a statement that Hispanics won’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black, Hillary becomes slick and evasive and makes superficial comments about free speech. Her campaign disgusts me. If somehow she wheedles and whines and lies her way to the Democratic nomination I will sit this election out.

Stop the Clinton dynasty once
and for all. Their primary goal
has always been personal gain from
gaining public office. They have
done very well amassing a fortune
of over $50,000,000 from sources
that they won’t disclose. Surely
the fact that they won’t release
their tax return until “she secures
the nomination,” speaks volumes.
Bill will use the White House to
continue his own agenda. When he
pardoned 140 felons the day
before leaving office he lost my
trust once and for all. She “knew
nothing about that,” of course.
No more Clintons please.

And lest we forget these emails were all over the Internets BEFORE the Clinton campaign workers ever circulated the emails.
Anyone that spends any time at all online, had seen these emails long before the campaign ever started. It’s OLD NEWS and Steve Kroft was a real jerk to even ask Hillary about this issue.
Typical MSM CRAP trying to make Hillary look bad. Will it ever end?

You know I’m so disappointed in the Democratic race because it seems no matter how hard Obama tries between the media and Hillary Clinton and her desperate attempt to make Obama look black at the same that she’s plays on woman voter’s mostly white women voters by using the scare tactics. It is clear to me when listening to shows like Morning Joe and Saturday Night Live, Hardball that Clinton is getting her way by wining about the media is mistreating me. I’m so sick of her, sick of her and Bill’s dirty tactics.
I believe the Republican Party now that they are a dirty political machine. I should never supported Bill Clinton during his justify impeachment.
Black American we should learn our lesson now that a Black can not be President of the United State because the United States is still not a place where true freedom can raise because if OBAMA does not become President when will we get a Black President? WHEN? OR is Bill Clinton and Now Hillary Clinton our only chance at the President seat.. This makes me sick..
Well Black American and all the other American who feel this unjustified please raise up because now is the time.
I think we should have civil rights movement against the President seat discriminating against Obama because he is Black.
AND ANOTHER THING WHY DO HISPANIC VOTER THINK THAT A WHITE PERSON WOULD BE BETTER THAN A BLACK PERSON WHEN THE HISPANIC HAS AFRICAN AMERICAN IN THERE RACE.. GIVE ME A BREAK. IF THE HISPANIC RACE THINKS THAT SOMEHOW A WHITE PRESIDENT IS GOING TO DO BETTER FOR THEM THAN A BLACK PRESIDENT THAN ASK THEM WHY THEY HAVEN’T GOTTEN ANYWHERE.
A HISPANIC DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT CANDIATE WILL NEED AFRICAN AMERICAN TO WIN ONE DAY AND IF THEY TURN THERE BACKS NOW ON A FINALLY A MINORITY GETTING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE THERE CHANCES FADES TOO!

oh, and i do think this is a silly article. the dude should not have repeated his questions, he was simply looking to have her say something dumb, and she did. he was definitely going after her, rather than being objective. but, that’s what sells i guess.

Why does everyone have to be so poltically correct when talking about the Obamanation.It seems this entire week was spent trying not offend Obama and using words that Obama would feel comfortable with. There is no need to attack Hillary-she did not call Obama a Muslim. It was Steve Kroft who raised it and why doesn`t someone ask why he raised it since nobody in the media has ever said that Obama was a Muslim.And anyone who attacks Hillary for those innocuous remarks just doesn`t like Hillary.
Also it is obvious that you get your marching orders from Matt Drudge who highlighted it on his web site.

The democrats are falling into the Republicans hand because as long as the race goes on it gives them ideas on how John McCain can beat either Hillary or Obama in NOVEMBER. Why do you think the Florida governor is now suggesting he will redo the race. This is all to help John McCain win..wake up Democrats and Hillary get out of the race.

Hillary is the master of wordsmithing to avoid making a commitment. It’s almost like listenting to Bill when she speaks… Anyone else notice this?
Earlier this week, she failed to ‘denounce and reject’ the support of the supporter that made racist comments, instead she “rejected and denounced her *comments*”. Hillary, and all the baggage the Clinton Fraud and Scandal Machine brings with her, will drag this country down further than it is now.

Ms. Clinton’s reply, as evasive as she usually is,completely cements the case that she is totally and utterly unfit for the office of President of the United States of Amerca.Was this man not the one whom she was honoured to sit next two a few eeks ago and now sowing doubt regarding his religion, as if that s were any business of her’s, your’s or mine? Please Hillary, please just shut up and go away. Give America a break. We’ve had enough of the Clintons to last a lifetime!

sugested obama career choices
politician
stage psychic
astrologer
show pony

What a non-story. First, she said “of course not” and then if you watch the video you can almost imagine what she’s thinking of the question…
“Why did he ask me that again after I answered once?”
“Is this some joke? Is there something else to this?”
“How the *&%@ should *I* know? Why don’t they ask him?”
“How am I supposed to know if he is or isn’t”
“Is this dumb reporter trying to get me to swear on a bible that Obama isn’t Muslim? Seems a bit illogical…”
“Does he really think I might answer with a yes?”
“What a ridiculous question to ask… twice!”
Yup, pretty much a non-story… the story should be, why did they ask her this question… TWICE even?

Clinton could have said, “No, Obama is a Christian, we all know he is a Christian, and I denounce and reject anyone who insinuates otherwise.”
Instead . . . she refused to categorically denounce the slander, and in true blue Clinton fashion turned the matter into how many times she has been smeared…..
The Clintons will do anything and say anything, and have no shame at all.
Clear as day.

I guess Obama doesn’t know he is a muslim or not until Hillary answers the question first. Why should that be any different from his other respones?

All Hillary does is divide American people, hence divide the country unti everyone is ready to kill their next door neighbour because they are not of the right colour, right race ,right religion, or even right gender for that matter. She tried her tricks: blacks against whites, blacks against Latinos, Muslims agains jews , man against women and the list goes on and on. When is this woman going to stop this divisive nonsense??? Maybe until she gets her nomination than she will stop??? Shame on Her and Her Campaign.

I heard that comment and thought the same thing?? Very devisive is Hillary — I also heard Bob Shrum say that when Hillary comes back — and Bush wonder who is predicting gas at $4.00 a gallon — just where are they coming from?? Do they think that people cannot read, listen and decide on their own — that is what the change is that the Clinton campaign cannot understand — it’s people actually taking an interest and people who cannot be fooled into believing campaign drivel anymore — enough is enough! March 4th should decide that. The Clinton backers keep moving the goal posts, but the American people are smart enough to see it for what it is.

Dear Spock,
Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, is obviously a Christian. Neither he nor Barack Obama has ever been a Muslim. Please refrain from spreading pure lies, and check your facts before making outlandish claims.
As Barack Obama has said on numerous occasions, these lies insult not only Obama’s own convictions but the convictions of millions of peaceful Muslims whose religion is being exploited to scare people.
Hillary Clinton needs to do much more to denounce and reject this shameful politics of fear and deceit.

Now we see pure Rovian politics at work. Good job Hillary! Keep sliming till you are out of it. Then go back to being New Yorks’s problem>

Hillary as far as she knows he is not muslam,short of calling on god how would she know.Maybe if she asks god to send down the celestial choir the Obamanites will feel so much better on her choice of words.She said there was no bases for believing he was.Of course this does try to blow it up to take some heat off Obama and his Nafta and Rezko melt downs now doesnt it.

Hussein prays to Mecca 4 times a day. Sounds like a muslim to me.

For someone who has spent so much time being attacked unfairly all of her political life, I cannot believe that HRC would be able to smear another person so easily. It shows a tremendous lack of character.
There is also a pretty good argument that HRC would have a hell of a lot more ability to attest AGAINST Obama’s being a muslim (Hello? Don’t you ever see him eating pork out on the trail? Do you ever catch him praying furtively to Mecca in the green room prior to a debate?) Arguably, HRC knows Obama better now and sees him more than she sees her husband. This is shameful.

I am surprised that the Hillary bashers are picking up on these slim pickings. What she could have said was “Look, the rumors are not baseless and Barack has a rich heritage which includes Muslim — people want to know and Barack is the only one who can answer these questions”. Well Barack did by saying that the rumors are baseless like we are living in a different planet! I cannot understand why he is so ashamed of his heritage!

Your comment: “…two Clinton campaign volunteer coordinators in Iowa were asked by the Clinton campaign to resign after it came out that they had circulated those insane Obama-is-a-Muslim-Manchurian-candidate emails” reminded me that the Clinton campaign’s original, repeated response to those emails was that they were “an obvious right-wing hit job.” I don’t suppose the campaign has since recanted this. The problem is, Hillary’s history contains so many lies that it all becomes white noise. “Obviously, I wouldn’t be in this race if I didn’t care for the people of this county…” Give me a break!

I cannot honestly see anything wrong with what she said! She was asked/baited the same ridiculous question 3 times, and she said “no” 3 times. If someone repeatedly asks me the same question, around the third time of answering it, I could definitely see saying “…as far as I know.” As far as she knows, he is not a Muslim (or an astronaut or a sushi chef, where are just as (ir)relevant); she doesn’t think he is and doesn’t have reason to believe he is.
What she SHOULD have said in response is: “What does Barack Obama’s religion have to do with my OR his qualifications to be the president of the US? Ask me about my health care plan.”

There’s been a whole lot of activity by neo-nazis spreading this stuff about Obama being a Muslim and and an unpariotic terrorist sympathizer. It’s all over the internet and church and factory parking lots are being leafletted with it, tee shirts being sold with it. And some of it’s bringing up Charlie Manson’s vision of Helter Skelter – the impending world wide race war. I can’t understand why the media isn’t exposing these people and how dangerous it is to play with this fire.

Gimme a break…only people who are REALLY reaching would see anything wrong with what she said. Pathetic.