In article <0001HW.C45490B4000F5F98F01846D8@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
George Graves <gmgraves2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 12:29:52 -0700, ZnU wrote
> (in article <znu-854F55.15295117052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
>
> > In article <seektruth-D142D4.13584717052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > seektruth <seektruth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Who is Phi Shlama Islama Obama anyway?
> >>
> >>
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-mccain17-2008may17,0,4987662.s
> >> tory
> >>
> >> From an article in the LA Times -
> >>
> >> Obama said he disagreed with the NRA. "Their basic position is that
any
> >> law related to gun owner****p is a potential camel's nose under the
tent
> >> and that if we allow even the smallest concession that somehow guns
will
> >> be taken away from everybody.
> >>
> >> "If you subscribe to that view then you are not going to agree with
me.
> >> On the other hand, if you are a gun owner here in South Dakota who
uses
> >> your gun to hunt or to protect your family and does so in a lawful
way,
> >> then you have nothing to worry about from me."
> >>
> >> A "potential camel's nose under the tent?" This is definitely not an
> >> American or European expression. Where would this phrase be one
found
> >> as an idiom or colloquialism of local origin? Mainly Africa & the
> >> Middle East - where camels are found in great number and where Islam
is
> >> the dominant religion.
> >
> > Obama lived in Indonesia between the ages of about six and ten.
> > Indonesia is majority Muslim, but isn't actually part of the Middle
> > East, isn't Arab, and doesn't have camels.
> >
> > For three of the four years Obama was in Indonesia, he attended a
> > Catholic school. The fourth year his family moved, and he attended a
> > local government-run public school. There's no reason to believe Obama
> > ever learned Arabic, as his cl***** would have been in Bahasa, the
> > official (and most widely spoken) language in Indonesia.
> >
> > A bit of research shows this phrase you're discussing entered the
> > English language in the 19th century. A Google search shows it being
> > fairly widely used, by people with no connection to the Middle East or
> > Africa. There are even a couple of instances of Republican lawmakers
> > using it.
> >
> > You people should be ashamed of yourselves.
> >
>
> So you can prove that Obama is NOT a "closet Muslim"?
He attended a Christian church for a couple of decades. In other words,
there's more evidence he's not a Muslim than there is that you or I, as
non churchgoers, aren't Muslims.
> While I don't believe that he is a Muslim anything, this man sends up
> so many red flags that it's frightening.
Such as?
> Of the three candidates running as of now, the only one that I could
> possibly vote for is The Clinton ***** (Marcus Registrada). She is
> actually the lesser of the three evils, even though I hate her guts.
> At least she'd have Billy's experience to draw upon. He's been there
> and done that. Plus, there's all the op****tunities for high humor
> that we, as a nation, could enjoy while watching Billy's continued
> highjinks. We'd miss all of that if Obama were elected. But
> seriously, we need a strong leader to bring this country together,
> not one who will further polarize it and Obama is so left-wing and is
> carrying so much baggage that he is definitely NOT that leader.
Obama is slightly more moderate than Clinton on most issues, and has
considerably less baggage than either Clinton or McCain.
--
"More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War
coming
out any other way."
--George W. Bush in Martinsburg, W. Va., July 4,
2007
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