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« on: May 26, 2009, 11:08:13 AM »

http://www.conservapedia.com/Barack_Obama
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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2009, 11:11:46 AM »

Option 3.
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2009, 11:17:07 AM »

Haha, not at all. The jibes are funny, but sad that people would actually take this garbage as an honest article.
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2009, 11:53:45 AM »

The most amazing part is that these people HATE drugs, yet are clearly on something.

Really though, it's an embarrassment to conservatives everywhere.  Group ignorance is both funny and sad.
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2009, 01:48:09 PM »

The worst part is how it's mostly just paranoid ranting instead of legitimate criticism of his policies. The primary focus of the article is how Barack Hussein Obama is really a closet Muslim who was only "allegedly" born in Honolulu. Not the best way to convert fence-sitters to your side.
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2009, 01:55:08 PM »

i like how in the title for obama its Barack Hussein Obama but for bush its just George w bush.
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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2009, 02:05:36 PM »

I like how they only focus on childish crap like that instead of his policies or even his character.
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« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2009, 02:13:03 PM »

I like how they only focus on childish crap like that instead of his policies or even his character.
well yeah that's the same as what i was saying i find it hilariously immature.
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« Reply #8 on: May 26, 2009, 02:13:38 PM »

None of their entries are balanced.  Has anyone read the one on evolution?
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« Reply #9 on: May 26, 2009, 02:28:01 PM »

Haha, not at all. The jibes are funny, but sad that people would actually take this garbage as an honest article.

The problem is that Conservapedia's readership takes this deadly seriously. A cursory glance at Free Republic shows that around 90% of that site's membership believe Obama is a secret Muslim with a fake birth certificate.

The hilarious thing about the article is that the list of "proof" that Obama is a Muslim includes things that are absolutely silly, such as "Obama has chosen the Secret Service code name "Renegade". "Renegade" conventionally describes someone who goes against normal conventions of behavior, but its first usage was to describe someone who has turned from their religion. It is a word derived from the Spanish renegado, meaning "Christian turned Muslim" " and "On the campaign trail, Obama was reading "The Post-American World" by Fareed Zakaria, which is written from a Muslim point-of-view" despite the fact that the book barely mentions Islam, and reflects a Muslim point of view only in the sense that Zakaria is a Muslim, and seemingly a quite secular one at that. The Kite Runner, a best-selling novel, was written by a Muslim American as well; does that mean anyone who read The Kite Runner is a Muslim? I mean it does reflect a Muslim point of view, far more than The Post-American World does.
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« Reply #10 on: May 26, 2009, 09:09:30 PM »

Now that I have time to read all of the evidence I am literally LOLin.

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Any third-grader could tell you he's referring to having lived in a Muslim-majority country.

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Roll Eyes

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Pakistani Christians would do the same.

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Right, he's disgusing his Islam, yet he leaves a hint like this. Roll Eyes

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Yes, it's his legal middle name.

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Uh no, Roberts botched it.
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« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2009, 09:25:14 PM »

The most amazing part is that these people HATE drugs, yet are clearly on something.

Really though, it's an embarrassment to conservatives everywhere.  Group ignorance is both funny and sad.

I really don't understand why you in particular label yourself a 'conservative'. Conservatism and libertarianism are fundamentally askance worldviews.
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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2009, 09:27:26 PM »

That's a dumb question, it's called Conservapedia!!!
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« Reply #13 on: May 26, 2009, 11:01:10 PM »


I have always felt claims that obama was a Muslim were unfair.  I just figured he was another liberal elitist who played the religion game when it suited him. 

But if you will take note, as they usually do, Conservapedia actually used documentation and actual obama quotes.  "I AM ONE OF THEM" is pretty surprising.  My hope is that he never actually said that and some one just fooled conserva-pedia.  Other wise he IS a muslim and we almost all have egg on our faces.
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« Reply #14 on: May 26, 2009, 11:02:22 PM »

Option 3, of course.
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« Reply #15 on: May 26, 2009, 11:51:49 PM »

The most amazing part is that these people HATE drugs, yet are clearly on something.

Really though, it's an embarrassment to conservatives everywhere.  Group ignorance is both funny and sad.

I really don't understand why you in particular label yourself a 'conservative'. Conservatism and libertarianism are fundamentally askance worldviews.
Because I'm weird.  I still like guns and Jews.  I don't hate Christians.  My economics. 

I'd love to take back the word "liberal", but that's not going to happen.
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« Reply #16 on: May 27, 2009, 12:18:29 AM »
« Edited: May 27, 2009, 12:20:01 AM by Nutmeg »

But if you will take note, as they usually do, Conservapedia actually used documentation and actual obama quotes.  "I AM ONE OF THEM" is pretty surprising.  My hope is that he never actually said that and some one just fooled conserva-pedia.  Other wise he IS a muslim and we almost all have egg on our faces.

Can you read a sentence to understand to what the pronoun "them" refers?  It is to "Americans [who] have Muslims in their families or [who] have lived in a Muslim-majority country."  Obama lived in a majority-Muslim country in his youth and has Muslim relatives.
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« Reply #17 on: May 27, 2009, 12:20:34 AM »

Obama lived in a majority-Muslim country in his youth....

In fact, he was even born in one!
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« Reply #18 on: May 27, 2009, 01:04:20 AM »

Obama lived in a majority-Muslim country in his youth....

In fact, he was even born in one!

Hawaii's a country again?
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« Reply #19 on: May 27, 2009, 01:06:14 AM »

Obama lived in a majority-Muslim country in his youth....

In fact, he was even born in one!

Hawaii's a country again?

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« Reply #20 on: May 27, 2009, 04:22:02 AM »

     That article makes me despair for the future of humanity after seeing that people could really be that inane.
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« Reply #21 on: May 27, 2009, 04:39:35 AM »

Obama lived in a majority-Muslim country in his youth....

In fact, he was even born in one!
Evidence?
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« Reply #22 on: May 27, 2009, 06:36:31 AM »


Evidence that he wasn't?
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« Reply #23 on: May 27, 2009, 06:38:20 AM »


Unless you think that a massive conspiracy by the state of Hawai'i is more probable than not, I think you're fielding the scientific burden of proof here.
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« Reply #24 on: May 27, 2009, 07:18:38 AM »

snopes

Not that anything will change the mind of somebody so willfully ignorant as to believe this particular conspiracy theory.
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