White House says Obama is Christian, prays daily

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

The White House says President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily.

White House spokesman Bill Burton made the remark Thursday, hours after a poll showed 18 percent of Americans think Obama is Muslim, up from 11 percent who thought so last year. A third think he's Christian, and 4 in 10 say they don't know Obama's religion.

Burton told reporters aboard Air Force One that most Americans care more about the economy and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, he says, are "not reading a lot of news about what religion the president is."

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[joeybee12]

1. Really? Then he just lost my vote.

:evilgrin:

Series-ly, I don't give a flying phuck...I do, however, give a flying phuck about the pathetic state of journalism in this country.

[BootinUp]

7. lol nt

[One_Life_To_Give]

2. Rolling up the Pants Legs, it's getting deep in here. nt

[DJ13]

3. Thats nice, but the WH needs to stop reacting to the far right

They wont believe him anyway, no point in trying to dispel anything they say.

[xultar]

4. I wouldn't have even responded to that bullshit.,

[Ratty]

22. That 18% would say that even if he walked on water

You can bet if they asked those same people a couple more questions they'd say he wasn't born here, he's a socialist, Sarah Palin would make a great president, gays are sinful, global warming is a crock ... It's all part of a colorful package. There is literally nothing the president could do to please them. To try and address these loons only lends them credibility.

[gtar100]

46. ++

Completely agree.

[tclambert]

68. Jesus doesn't even walk on water anymore. Not since He got those holes in His feet.

[kestrel91316]

5. Too many RWers will see the fact that the WH has issued this statement

as proof that he is muslim, and that NOW HE'S LYING ABOUT IT OPENLY. Seriously. Their minds are hermetically sealed shut.

[Chicago dyke]

11. yeah, but i seriously doubt he "prays daily"

beyond muttering stuff like "Christ! are those the unemployment numbers for this week?" or "Oh my God, I can't believe i'm down to ~40% in the polls!" etc.

bush didn't "pray daily," and obama is probably no different. this is pandering of the very worst kind. and like someone above said, it DOES NOT MAKE THE WINGERS LOVE HIM ANY MORE. i really, really can't believe this administration is as stupid as they are proving to be, and i wasn't a fan to begin with. he could go to a megachurch every fucking day, and they'd still call him a muslim. so why does he bother to even respond to this crap? it only keeps the "controversy" in the news cycle.

yet another media FAIL from the WH. sigh.

[BootinUp]

14. It had very little to do with accurate praying statistics

it was an effective way to counter propoganda that he is a muslim though.

[RamboLiberal]

59. I question effective

Jesus himself could come down from heaven & proclaim him Christian and still the Faux news & RW talk fans would consider him a Muslim. They should've asked how many consider him the anti-Christ.

[tclambert]

69. Prays daily TO WHOM? That's the question.

"O, merciful Flying Spaghetti Monster, bless America with your noodly goodness. And if you could do something about those unemployment numbers, I'd sure thank you. Ra-men."

[BootinUp]

6. I love this country

we definitely have our priorities in order! :sarcasm:

I am not criticizing the admin for trying to right the incorrect perception.

[Still Blue in PDX]

8. That really is the business only of President Obama and whomever he prays to. nt

:eyes:

[Dulcinea]

64. Agreed.

If praying gives him spiritual comfort, who are we to criticize? To each his/her own.

[Dr.Phool]

9. More proof that prayer doesn't work.

[superconnected]

25. How do you know? Maybe he's praying for a Corporatocracy and he's getting it!

It's not like the guy is against corporations. He's doing what he wants up in the white house. It just isn't what he said he would do to gain our vote. In fact how do we even know who he's praying to? Seems to me Christianity has two sides and he ain't following the God one.

He may well have sold his soul to become president. He acts like it with his actions - more surveillance, keeping torture and the patriot acts, not trying people for war crime but instead promoting more. Come on. He just looks like he'd be a "good" person. He doesn't act it.

[LanternWaste]

41. or at least evidence that...

Or at least evidence that the answer to a prayer is ofttimes "no."

[Chicago dyke]

51. "child amputee prays for regrown limb" god's answer?

"no."

gawd hates amputees. just like shrimp, and cheeseburgers.

[Demeter]

60. You crack me up, Doc!

Venturing off the reservation, are we?

[KamaAina]

10. Wait a minute! What about that big flap over Imam Wright?

oh, I see. It was Reverend Wright. My bad.

[Vinca]

12. Personally, I don't care if he dances around a pentacle in the East Room

as long as he straightens the mess formerly known as our country out. Who cares if he's a Christian or a Muslim or a nothing? I'm so fucking sick of these nonissues being what is front and center. Meanwhile, oil and Corexit are showing up in the Gulf after all, Afghanistan has completely gone to hell and millions of people are jobless, hungry and don't have health care.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

23. Who told you about the pentacle in the East Room?

Was it Cheney? Rove? That little prick Falwell? Damnit, we have a leak!

[rfranklin]

32. The ACLU demanded a pentacle room for religious observances...

where small white babies could be eaten alive.

[superconnected]

13. then why doesn't he act like one? Selling us out to banksters and BP is not

real Christian behavior. Torture is not a Christian value. Neither is murder and coverups.

Oh, wait! Is he a Fundy?

[No Elephants]

15. Christians are supposed to be secretive about their personal prayers.

[superconnected]

18. I've never head that one. No church I went to believed in secrecy about their prayers.

I went to pretty liberal Christian churches though.

[FLyellowdog]

30. Here it is....not that I care.

Matthew 6:5-6
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you."

[superconnected]

34. Thank you for showing me that! Never knew it before.

[FLyellowdog]

44. I'd venture to say that the televangelists

don't know about it either! :hi:

[Chicago dyke]

52. i don't mean to be rude, but

you go to churches (xtian, i assume) and you haven't read all of your most important "holy" book? i guess i can't understand that at all. i don't mean to say you should've memorized it, but still. this is news to you? it's only been there, for like, 2000 years.

[madrchsod]

29. yes we are...pray in dark places or something like that.

his message was--- we are know by our deeds not our words.

[LanternWaste]

42. If one reads the relevant passage as a literalist.

If one reads the relevant passage as a literalist without the possibility of either context or interpretation...

[boppers]

49. Yeah, "Thou shalt not kill" needs context and interpretation...

"blessed are the meek" needs context and interpretation...

At what point does a person have to stand back and say: "Wait, so this can mean anything based on interpretation, and if that's true, it doesn't actually mean anything in and of itself?"

[24601]

67. It was a misprint and was supposed to read "Blessed is the Geek."

and it was the guy who made and fixed writing tablets - essentially the Bill Gates of his day. And given his wealth accumulation, it looks like he has indeed inherited much of the earth. See what one little error caused?

[Taverner]

16. And I should give a rats ass because?

[superconnected]

17. Because he's even sold out Christ!

[Taverner]

19. Meh

Considering I don't think a Christ exists, its nothing...

[FLyellowdog]

33. Wouldn't that be about 2000 too late?nt

[GodlessBiker]

20. Prayer is telling god that you think his divine plan sucks.

[Roland99]

21. why? WHY is the WH responding to crap from the right?

W H Y ? ? ?


*sigh*

[BootinUp]

24. Oh maybe due to bad memories

from times when other Dems did not. Just a guess.

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Aah, the 18% whose TVs are tuned to Faux News.

[prole_for_peace]

27. Know who else prays daily?

MUSLINS!!!

[joneschick]

35. I just ordered 20 yards of MUSLIN!!!!

do I have to provide prayer accomodations now??? sheesh.

[prole_for_peace]

61. Yes you do.

Sorry I don't make the rules

[madrchsod]

28. feeding load of shit to the feeble minded christian zealots

when are these cowards in the whitehouse realize no matter what they say the zealots will never ever believe anything they say.

good god is so fucking stupid it makes my head hurt.

[Derechos]

31. Pathetic

[old mark]

36. Here I thoiught he was Satan...what a letdown...it's that fucking Gibbs again, I

just know it...



:bluebox: :redbox: :graybox:

mark

[GliderGuider]

37. You have my my sympathies

You poor buggers just can't seem to shake the urge towards mumbo-jumbo in the public square.

[HughBeaumont]

38. . . .

NOBODY FLIPPIN' CARES!!!!! WHY'D THEY EVEN ANSWER??? WHY?? Bewsh/Reagan's shitpile mess needs to be cleaned, Corporate America is holding this country hostage, and we give a shit about this WHY???

[superconnected]

40. It's important for him not to be a Muslim - especially after supporting the Mosque.

America has freedom of Religion for Christians only - ask a right winger, they'll tell you the founding fathers are Christian and this is a Christian nation and all others should leave.

Interest jpgs you have, they look like phallus' but it's a hand on a head. I see it as existing only to make the point of throwing phallus' out there though.

[HughBeaumont]

47. I'm just wondering how much our nation would have progressed by now . . .

. . . if religious zealotry hadn't been so pervasive and ubiquitous these past 234 years.

The jpgs derive from this:

[superconnected]

48. Yeah, and Iove that pic!

[tclambert]

70. Are you calling Captain Picard a dickhead?

[slackmaster]

58. He really stepped in it on that one

A "crisis" manufactured in the media, and not anything of actual concern to the chief of the executive branch of the federal government.

[ContraBass Black]

65. Is that a Capt. Picard facepalm?

:D

[HughBeaumont]

66. Went looking for facepalms - there it IS!

DU should adopt this one.

[ipaint]

39. How embarrassing. nt

[bowens43]

43. How disappointing.

I hope he is only playing to the masses. I find it truly disturbing to think about the leader of the free world suffering from religious delusions.

[democrank]

45. This is really something.

Just like clockwork, Obama`s professional image makers trot someone out whenever there is even a hint of a rumbling from the (He`s not like us) right.

Too bad the professional handlers don`t trot the same people out when the Progressives (that actually supported Obama)voice their concerns.

[OhioChick]

50. If Obama prays daily, it's his own business.

Something like this would never have made the "news" 10 years ago or so.

:eyes:

[Jeneral2885]

53. America doesnt feel first world anymore

They preach freedom and human rights etc to the developing. But some Americans act as if they are Third World or even worse than Third World people.

[Freetradesucks]

54. It sucks that they felt the need

to respond to this bullshit. The man has publicly stated that he is Christian, attended a Christian church for 20+ years, got married in a Christian ceremony, and even had his daughters baptized Christian. Give me a fucking break!!

[slackmaster]

55. It is indeed bullshit, and IMO no good will come of responding to it

He's the President of the United States. He should be leading the country. That is done by being firm and consistent, not blowing in the wind.

[jonnyblitz]

56. this is how he found out that baby jebus doesn't want teh gays to

marry!!1 I love my woo president!!! :loveya: :sarcasm:

[jannyk]

57. Amateur hour at the WH again. Next they'll be stating that he...

...consults his god on issues of national importance just like GWB before him....and look how well that worked out.

Whatever happened to that separation of church and state thingy?

[countmyvote4real]

62. STFW n/t

[mike r]

63. Not enough. I want a video with sound.

Gibbs: "Okay, we'll get it right out to you"

:sarcasm:

[Francesca9]

71. Burton? Did Gibbs get fired?

[BadGimp]

72. Is this really necessary?

[mike r]

73. del dupe