Here’s a quote, but read the whole thing:
Apr 21st, 2008 | JONESVILLE, S.C. — A South Carolina pastor says he wasn’t trying to be political when he posted a sign in front of his church linking Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Pastor Roger Byrd said he just wanted to make people think when he put up a sign reading “Obama, Osama — humm, are they brothers” in front of the Jonesville Church of God on Thursday.
Of course, making comments about a presidential candidate with a Muslim-y last name… well, that’s totally innocent and not at all endangering a church’s tax-exempt status.
He wasn’t trying to be political? Seriously? That’s one of the most ridiculous excuses for blatant anti-candidate campaigning that I’ve ever heard. I’m not one to get exercised about people mentioning Obama’s middle name, but trying to paint him as simpatico with bin Laden and smearing all Muslims in the same breath is reprehensible. And from a man of God (allegedly) to boot. Color me unimpressed.
agreed. I can’t stand stuff like this, along with people plastering Obama’s middle every chance they get. I can see no other reason than guilt by association muslim smears.
Then there are the 15% of people who think he is a Muslim, and the 8% of people who would never vote a black man into office.
I mean, it is almost to the point where, despite my vehement disagreement with almost all of his domestic policies, I want to vote for him just to spite these people.
Who are, of course, not driven to religion or guns by bitterness and also Obama is a hopeless elitist.
Ugh. Maybe I just won’t vote.
I’ll worry about this when someone from Pastor Roger Byrd’s church runs for president.
Nice standard. Let’s ignore every idiocy spouted by Hillary supporters too.
We saw this (and from national democrats, as well as those progressives at places such as Kos) in Louisiana. Instead of using Jindal’s name, Bobby (which he had always used) speeches and ads prominently featured his birth name, Piyush, to emphasize his Indian ancestry, though he not only grew up here, but has a Baton Rouge accent. “Not that there is anything wrong with that” but the only thing Indian about the man was his ancestry. I guess that makes me Italian, or Spanish, or British, or go back far enough a Viking by way of Normandy and William the Conqueror. Then we get the smears about his “anti-protestant” writings. Finally ads run in North Louisiana where they darkened his skin.
Unfortunately, par for the course.