New Article from Conservative Refocus and Barry Secrest: An Incoherent Truth

Aug. 22, 2010 - PRLog -- Part of this "incoherence" can be tied to the Ground Zero debacle in which the President presided over a Muslim Group dinner--called an "Iftar"--at the White House where he strongly affirmed the construction of the Ground Zero Mosque.  Another daft spate of incoherence came from Speaker Nancy Pelosi who, not to be outdone by the President, let loose a quasi-tyrannical outtake where she actually suggested that those who were in opposition to the Mosque be investigated.  Um...that would mean a whopping 65% of all Americans.  (You might need to hire a few illegals to make that happen Nancy,  so how do you say "Ground Zero" en Espanol?)

While the third deluge belonged to the Tyrannical Trio's  Sen. Harry Reid, who surprisingly indicated that the Mosque "should not be built."  Indeed this was a rare, if not premier, presentation where Reid has actually agreed with the American people, perhaps for the first time in his rather dubious career--which is now in dire need of votes--in meaningful explanation. "Incoherents R Us" prevails.

Of Pigs and Pew and Kosher Rue

During his speech at the Iftar, the President forcefully ruminated that Muslims have every right to construct a Mosque at Ground Zero--this to a hearty round of applause from the attendees.  The Media, in an apparent "see we told you so" rejoinder,  then dutifully paraded this fact to us common folk, which predictably, went over like a prize winning pig at a passover sedar.  The combined uproar caused the President to immediately backpedal the following day to the point of "Clintonianly" suggesting that he was not speaking to the wisdom of where the Mosque was being built--just to the right for the Mosque to be built.  But the President's near defiant wording the night before seemed to hold no reservations whatsoever with regard to the tactical location of the Mosque's appropriateness.

This proved to be too much for a select few from the Media to the point of one outlet, Pew, actually conducting a poll in which Americans were asked if they thought the President was Muslim.  The answers weren't surprising.  The number of Americans who believe that the President is actually Muslim appears to be growing.  From March of 2009 to August 19, the percentage of Americans who believe our President is Islamic grew from 11% to 18% while even members of the President's own party are beginning to doubt his Christianity.  The number of Democrats who believe the President is Christian has dropped by 20%, while the President's most ardent supporters, the Liberals, have dropped by 25%.

So what gives?  While a larger and larger proportion of the populace tends to now doubt Obama's actual faith, both the President and the Media continue to virtually ridicule those who have the gall to actually question his religious beliefs, birth origins, etc. even while conducting polls in a need, perhaps, to ascertain the breadth of the vexatious problem.

The answer is most likely less complex than many would admit.  The simple fact is that the President's own words regarding select Christians as being "bitter clingers to their religion and guns," his words from "The Audacity of Hope" in which he indicated that, if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction, he would "stand with the Arab and Pakistani Americans," and other such utterances have led many to question,whether fairly or not, the President's actual allegiances not withstanding his continual attacks on Conservatives, The Tea Party and perhaps even those who frequent tanning parlors.

Crusade, Jihad, Crusade, Jihad...Decisions, Decisions

Further, when the respondents were asked why they felt that the President might seem increasingly by many to be more Muslim than Christian, a large number indicated that their assumptions were based on both Media reports and what the President has actually stated over time.  Granted, a number of dissenters have fabricated or misquoted Obama as to his origins, his religion, etc, yet it can also be purely stated that the President's apologists have committed these acts as well, along with a sycophantic Media who are only now beginning to wonder about "Their Man" in some few circles.

During a speech in Turkey, the President pointedly stated, "although as I mentioned, we have a very large Christian population, we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation, or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation; we consider ourselves a nation of citizens bound by ideals and a set of values."  Here the President was actually voicing an opinion rather than a fact.  We are actually a predominately Christian nation which respects and even reveres other beliefs which, once again, is an avenue of exceptionalism in an decidedly unexceptional world.

Our Constitution is based upon a Judeo-Christian set of values which can in no way jell with a secondary or even tertiary set of harsh, and what many would consider to be sexist, unjust laws which are commonly manifested in Islamic Shariah law.  But the nation is not Christian by edict, but rather the nation was partially built on the premise of our Constitutional Republic's inability to coerce or force either religion or irreligion down anyone's throats.

Perhaps a very telling fact within all of the spreading confusion is not how "we see the President" but rather how those not born in America see the President.  According to the extremely well-traveled and highly respected  Rev. Franklin Graham, the vast membership of Islam in other countries see Barack Obama as one of their own.

Media-ocrity

Conversely however, the overall response from what should be a questioning Media on matters of Islam, Mosques and Presidential veracity has been one of defending the Mosque and even Islam rather than questioning the motives of Islamic Religious leaders themselves.  The Liberals in our midst have seemed to fall right in with the Media, not surprisingly, since they seem to be one in the same for the most part.  So, we now have, once again, the Executive branch of our nation going against the will of the American people--in spirit--if not in fact.

Ultimately does it matter to which faith the President adheres?  Not really, but the constant stream of questions which continue to be "adequately" unanswered does create a patina of doubt among a populace searching for answers as the country's problems aggregate from what many have termed a lack of substantive leadership and certainly truth.

In other matters of extreme incoherence, the President recently let loose a string of "blame" against a group of individuals that has resisted the President in every one of his non-efforts with regard to our economy.  This group was not specifically the Republicans, Conservatives nor Rush listeners.  No indeed, this group was actually Congress! After 18 months of rubberstamping virtually every piece of legislation the President has loosed upon a now leery populace, and allowing others to conveniently languish (the 2010 budget has never been passed due to "political considerations") the President actually had the audacity of hope to blame Congress.

Incoherent? You bet ya! as Sarah would say.  The President, quite appropriately, made these observations at the end of his driveway to members of the press while he departed for a 10 day vacation in Martha's Vineyard--his sixth vacation in 8 months.  So not only has the President espoused seeming incoherence on Congress, jobs, healthcare and virtually every other subject under the sun--including his vacation schedule--in addition to possibly his faith, the President's words themselves now seem to exhibit an incoherence all their own even while he appears to be rapidly becoming a legend--but only in his own mind--and maybe his staff's--to an increasingly lesser degree....

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