It seems everyone I talk to thinks Obama is a Muslim and the world is ending in USA

[CureCancer]

It seems everyone I talk to thinks Obama is a Muslim who is taking over USA.

A huge chunk of people I have met in a Democratic State seem to think FOX News is the best source for honest news.

What is happening in America?

One guy turned around and said, it's these colored people - they sell this and that and now turning our country into a Muslim state.

These are 4-6 generation Americans, I kept myself out of the discussions and when they asked me about my opinion I just replied back I'm not into politics.

10 years ago when I was in USA, people did not act out so much hate. Now it seems everyone thinks OBAMA is a Muslim Gangsta who is converting US into a Muslim State.

My question is, why does FOX hate Obama so much? Fox is creating hate among Americans and dividing the nation.

News corporations need to be hold accountable for their information. I don't know what is wrong with this world. I don't follow any religion and don't care. But the majority of the world seems to care so much that they are killing one another for it.

If you ask me, this world is HELL 98.9%. The other day I met up with a friend I knew from High School and he started to talk about his Muslim faith as the only answer and path to God. I tried to question his faith and he wanted to kill me.

Same experience I had with a Christian couple weeks ago, she assured me that Jesus was the only answer to the world and that the world is ending in few years.

Who put these Religious freaks in charge of what is right or wrong?

I'm glad I'm blessed by God to know that religion is destroying us as a civilization. GOD would never use humans to spread religion, GOD shares wisdom thats all. We have taken that wisdom and turned it into a war game.

[draggar]

My question is, why does FOX hate Obama so much? Fox is creating hate among Americans and dividing the nation.

Fox is conservative, Obama is liberal. That's why.

News corporations need to be hold accountable for their information. I don't know what is wrong with this world. I don't follow any religion and don't care. But the majority of the world seems to care so much that they are killing one another for it.

They are liable for the information that they broadcast as fact. News is always open to interpertation and news agencies will generally broadcast the news that fits their agenda.

If you don't support the war in Iraq then you broadcast about US solders being killed, civilians being killed, etc.
If you do support the war in Iraq then you broadcast about the hospitals and schools that have been built.

If you're pro-stimuluos then you broadcast about how it is helping people yet if you're against it then you broadcast about how it's stretching funds thin and it's forcing curbacks elsewhere.

[CureCancer]

But why are they preaching that Obama is a MUSLIM who is taking over the US? I'm only asking cause their are people in USA that I have talked to that are 1000000% sure Obama is not American and that he has hijacked the White House and they recommend I watch Fox News.

[draggar]

But why are they preaching that Obama is a MUSLIM who is taking over the US? I'm only asking cause their are people in USA that I have talked to that are 1000000% sure Obama is not American and that he has hijacked the White House and they recommend I watch Fox News.

I don't know why. Are they broadcasting that he is a Muslim or that he was taught in a Muslim school or had a Muslim relative?

As for hijacking the White House George W Bush had the same accusation after the 2000 election SNAFU.

People who are unhappy will find things to complain about and when they're in the position of power (like news agencies) they can easily broadcast their beliefs though their interpertations of the news.

[CureCancer]

I don't know why. Are they broadcasting that he is a Muslim or that he was taught in a Muslim school or had a Muslim relative?

As for hijacking the White House George W Bush had the same accusation after the 2000 election SNAFU.

People who are unhappy will find things to complain about and when they're in the position of power (like news agencies) they can easily broadcast their beliefs though their interpertations of the news.

Well said, I just feel awful for these people I met, they are wonderful Americans but their minds are hijacked by this idea of the world coming to an end cause Obama is President.

[biggedon]

Well said, I just feel awful for these people I met, they are wonderful Americans but their minds are hijacked by this idea of the world coming to an end cause Obama is President.

how can anyone be wonderful, if their minds are hijacked?





perhaps broaden the scope of people you encounter, include some different ethnic backgrounds


but i feel what you're saying about fx news

fear-mongering plays to the emotions



i watch pbs, euronews, nhk, etc., along with the other "to the right and left" news outlets.

[500,000]

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[Rico]

"Obama is a Muslim and the world is ending in USA"

Great title for a movie.

[Tia Wood]

I'm glad I'm blessed by God to know that religion is destroying us as a civilization. GOD would never use humans to spread religion, GOD shares wisdom thats all. We have taken that wisdom and turned it into a war game.

Good point. Religion is mostly man made dogma. Spirituality is something different.

I don't know what is wrong with this world. I don't follow any religion and don't care. But the majority of the world seems to care so much that they are killing one another for it.

It's fear. Fear that one would be taken and forced to be something they dislike or despise or that goes against their religion. Fear of the unknown of the afterlife and wanting the comfort of a leader figure who seems to have it all figured out.

Labeling anything or anyone that goes against it as "evil", "sinful" or "corrupt" and then be naive to the fact that there is a whole world out there with different experiences, lives, viewpoints, cultures, etc, being unwilling to respect that while demanding it, sometimes violently, for themselves. It's happened since the beginning of time.

...Yet I wouldn't totally blame "religion"...it's the people who abuse religion and those who follow with blind faith (the blind faith that is too afraid to ask questions, inspect and gain real understanding) but rather follow the word of a handful of mortals who claim to accurately represent the infallible word of God.

[CureCancer]

how can anyone be wonderful, if their minds are hijacked? .

They were kind enough to open their home to me and my brother, my brother is fighting cancer and we needed a place for both of us. I had bone marrow transplant surgery and they helped. Even though their views and idea of the future is corrupt and disturbed, their hearts were clean and kind. it's FOX news that has turned them toward hate and anger. They are ordinary and simple Americans who have been infected by disturbing people who spread hate and false news.

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Good point. Religion is mostly man made dogma. Spirituality is something different.



It's fear. Fear that one would be taken and forced to be something they dislike or despise or that goes against their religion. Fear of the unknown of the afterlife and wanting the comfort of a leader figure who seems to have it all figured out.

Labeling anything or anyone that goes against it as "evil", "sinful" or "corrupt" and then be naive to the fact that there is a whole world out there with different experiences, lives, viewpoints, cultures, etc, being unwilling to respect that while demanding it, sometimes violently, for themselves. It's happened since the beginning of time.

...Yet I wouldn't totally blame "religion"...it's the people who abuse religion and those who follow with blind faith (the blind faith that is too afraid to ask questions, inspect and gain real understanding) but rather follow the word of a handful of mortals who claim to accurately represent the infallible word of God.

Well explained, Love your reply. God bless you for your knowledge and wisdom. Did not know that about you.

[draggar]

Wait, I think I know where the resurgance of it is coming from.

I think there was a picture of Obama with the book, "Living in a Post-American World" (by Fareed Zakaria - a naturalizedUS citizen) and people claim it is about taking down America.

People claim the author is Muslim but that only seems partially true, according to his Wikipedia page he's multi-cultural.

The book also is not about taking down America but when the rest of the world "catches up" to the US in terms of technology and influence.

[Poker]

It seems everyone I talk to thinks Obama is a Muslim who is taking over USA.

What is happening in America?

No shortage of dumb asses in this fine country of ours

[Gerry]

Wait, I think I know where the resurgance of it is coming from.

I think there was a picture of Obama with the book, "Living in a Post-American World" (by Fareed Zakaria - a naturalizedUS citizen) and people claim it is about .

I have that book. It's title and contents refer to the simple fact of what is going on this very minute in the world as in today's news....

China Overtaking Japan to become the 2nd most productive country on the globe.

Another good term to familiarize yourself with is BRIC, which stands for Brasil, Russia, India, China as the new global leaders.

It is an extremely insightful book and brilliantly written. Fareed looks at the US as a falling empire in terms of military might, production, and the stigma that the US has around the world. No, it is not about the taking down of America but rather about the failing American politics and business conducting business as usual without ever once considering the global economy. Too often the business model has been built it and people will buy it, as in automobiles. Far too often alternative fuels were squashed by the auto and oil industry and those are too closely tied to politics and politicians.

We are on the cusp of the US losing its ranking in technology and innovation and education along with collapsing of the financial markets and devaluation of goods. The US has lagged behind China, India, Japan, Korea in production of products that the world wants and needs. How many years (perhaps a decade or more) have we heard the preaching of pursuing alternative fuels? While big business and government has kept this sector stagnant in the US and not properly funded research and development, China has already claimed more than 60% share of all solar panels and systems worldwide. It was just a few years back that they held less than 10% of the global output of this merging markets. The US can never catch them now. What's worse, rather than catch them, the US had the opportunity during the last decade to expand on this emerging technology and sector and to be a global supplier.

People talk about unemployment and "lost jobs" while not facing the fact that those jobs are literally lost - textile, furniture, manufacturing durable goods, electronics - those are all jobs that are lost and will not be returning. Even here in the state of NC, once rich with textile and furniture manufacturing jobs and income, those jobs that went overseas over the last decade will never come back.

Fareed's book is exactly as it sounds - living in a world when the US is no longer number one in term of GDP, production, growth, income, military might, education, science, research, innovation. But the US and powers that be still don't want to admit it or acknowledge it. In fact, they don't even want you to see it. The US talking heads have not come to grips that there is a global economy out there that is 24/7.

That's the shame of all of this...the failure to recognize what is going on in the world let alone our own society. And only when we open our eyes and see that we have been getting our collective asses kicked will we be able to make some progress.

I watch this guy every sunday because he brings a unique perspective (and guests) to politics, religion, cultures, and manufacturing.

One of the phrases on the back book cover is:
This book isn't about America's decline, it's about how it can deploy its unique strengths to prosper as the rest of the world does so as well. It's a definitive handbook for political and business leaders who want to succeed in a global era."

[500,000]

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[Poker]

I guess that's how we (USA) got President Obama and a controlling majority in the house and Senate.

If the citizens of the USA where smart, we would of let Obama be president with out the majority in the house and senate that can change the constitution.

Strange how you did'nt seem to have a problem with it when Bush and the repubs controlled both houses for six years. They spent more of our money (not including the Wars which were off the books) in those six years than Clinton did in eight and Clinton didn't tank our economy, quite the contrary.

Talk about ignorance, there was enough of it to re-elect Bush after his 1st shit poor performance.

News flash, Obama is your President, get used to it and stop whining about it constantly 500,000 BC.

[Raider]

I guess that's how we (USA) got President Obama and a controlling majority in the house and Senate.

Good one Greg!

No shortage of dumb asses in this fine country of ours

Your calling yourself a dumb ass?

Now that's what I call PRICELESS!




Yeah, it wasn't very long ago that you and your Liberal dumb ass friends on this forum voted Obama into office, And were all paying the price for it now.... How's the stock market working out for ya? LMAO.

It seems everyone I talk to thinks Obama is a Muslim who is taking over USA.

I don't who know your talking to Batman, but most of the people I know think Obama is pro muslim, that he kisses muslim ass... Not that his faith is Muslim.

As for taking over the USA... NO, the majority of rational thinking Americans DON'T think that at all, what they think is that he's DESTROYING it, Which is true when you consider everything he's done in the past 19 months.... His record speaks for itself.

They spent more of our money (not including the Wars which were off the books) in those six years than Clinton did in eight and Clinton didn't tank our economy, quite the contrary.

Clinton also ignored National Security, thereby not spending the money necessary to protect the nation... No retaliation for the USS Cole bombing or the Kobalt Towers bombing, Clinton just allowed Al Qaeda to grow and grow until the threat got so big that it was too late... Yeah, we saved a ton of money under Clinton alright, but we could of saved FAR more AFTER Clinton, if only that Reagan wannabe did his job protecting the country and spent the money needed to defend it.

And just think if Clinton did that, The Twin Towers would be standing today with 3000 people alive and well.

Talk about ignorance, there was enough of it to re-elect Bush after his 1st shit poor performance.

Yeah, we know all about that ignorance, it's what people like you are born with.

[biggedon]

what's strange or not is


the republicans (bush) went into iraq to free the iraq people from sadam , so they say

and the majority of the people in iraq are of muslim or islamic faith


so when these people get "free" and come to the USA to build a mosque


there's a problem


america sends mixed messages to the world


remember "freedom fries"?


you can't go around the world preaching "freedom" and "democracy"

then try to prohibit expression of those freedoms by your own citizens.



after 911, the citizens of the USA lost more rights and freedom of expresssion

media language has turned to characterizations, metaphors and similes

no one has the courage to "tell it like it is".... "the truth be told" is no more.

lies and spin rule the wind, and the breeze smells of intolerance



mass hysteria is only a phrase away


depending on what the pundit's have to say


"paid people", lay out your premises


and no one questions their motive


imo...

[Bill Roy]

Tip.

I have made far more money from domaining and websites since I stopped posting on political threads on here and concentrated on the job at hand. It might work for many more people if they gave it a try.

[Area52]

After all of the lies, deception, fraud, circumvention of the law and constitution and dereliction of duty, I don't care what religion he says he practises. He's not credible. He supposedly attended a christian church for twenty some-odd years, but didn't figure out what the hell was going on there until he ran for president. So, apparantly he thinks that his supporters have the IQ of 50 or less and I tend to agree with him on that.

Anyone still supporting this regime after all that has been revealed is either a crook, a victim of delusional idolatry or family.
Hopefully, the thieving democratic party and the unread, irresponsible and destructive legislation it has given birth to, will go down in flames, along
with this administration. Rangel and others being tried are probably the tip of the iceberg.

[Gerry]

Wulp, thar ya have it.

Clinton done brung down dem twin towers.

Yessirree...never imagined that in a milleum years.

It tweren't some gee-hardests or dem desert A-rabs.


Say... how cause y'all don't share that good shit yur drikin and a smokin?