Fox News reports today that it was Congressman Keith Ellison who pressured Barack Obama to apologize to "two Muslim women booted from the front lines of a public appearance by the Democratic presidential candidate."
Apparently, he didn't do it in a tender way either. "Congressional sources indicated that Ellison's exchange with Obama was so intense that CBC Chairwoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., had to intervene and attempted to gavel down Ellison."
Geez. Ellison's reaction was kind of extreme eh? Obama's campaign was rude to those women. It shouldn't have happened and an apology should have been issued. But why is Ellison going nuts over this? Is this indicative of the level of Ellison's radicalization?
I wish Ellison cared about oil prices as much. Or the economy. Or supporting the troops in Iraq.
What's worse, is that Obama caved into Ellison's pressure. If Ellison can do this, I can't even imagine what Ahmadinejad could extract from a President Obama.
Something to lose sleep over.
Showing posts with label Keith Ellison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keith Ellison. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The Muslim Community and Barack Hussein Obama
"The joke within the national Muslim organizations is that we should endorse the person we don't want to win."
Ms. Safiya Ghori, Government relations director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
Even though Obama's presumed policies would benefit Muslims, apparently he is facing some friction with Muslim voters. Andrea Elliot of the New York Times writes about this in her article, "Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama."
Keith Ellison, America's first Muslim Congressman (from the great state of Minnesota), complains about Barack's campaign staff and its message control. He whines that the campaign isn't spending enough time courting Muslim voters. Of course, he doesn't want to hurt Barack's feelings, so he isn't blaming Barack (a man above reproach), he is blaming his aggressive campaign staff.
There are several grievances of people like Ellison.
1) Barack has been to churches and synagogues, but "has yet to appear at a single mosque."
2) Barack has cancelled campaign events with Muslims.
3) "Two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Mr. Obama at a rally in Detroit."
4) Barack has no problem denying that he is a Muslim, but treats the identity as something inherently bad. As Ellison said, "A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, by the way."
This is a case of Barack Obama trying to campaign too hard. He knows that people always connect his name to the Islamic faith. So he is really trying to run away from any type of association. In doing this, he is offending a bloc of voters. Whether, Muslims don't vote for him or not, only time will tell.
It still seems like Muslims will vote for him, as long as they view any problems with his campaign as his campaign staff, not him.
If he is elected ( and hopefully he won't be!), I can pictures liberals and other supporters--They won't blame Barack for anything. It's never him, it's just the incompetent people on his staff. Barack is above reproach and perfect.
It's funny how that method of reasoning didn't apply to George W. Bush. Under Bush's administration, anything that the federal government did wrong was his fault.
Is this fair??.... you decide.
Ms. Safiya Ghori, Government relations director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council
Even though Obama's presumed policies would benefit Muslims, apparently he is facing some friction with Muslim voters. Andrea Elliot of the New York Times writes about this in her article, "Muslim Voters Detect a Snub From Obama."
Keith Ellison, America's first Muslim Congressman (from the great state of Minnesota), complains about Barack's campaign staff and its message control. He whines that the campaign isn't spending enough time courting Muslim voters. Of course, he doesn't want to hurt Barack's feelings, so he isn't blaming Barack (a man above reproach), he is blaming his aggressive campaign staff.
There are several grievances of people like Ellison.
1) Barack has been to churches and synagogues, but "has yet to appear at a single mosque."
2) Barack has cancelled campaign events with Muslims.
3) "Two Muslim women wearing head scarves were barred by campaign volunteers from appearing behind Mr. Obama at a rally in Detroit."
4) Barack has no problem denying that he is a Muslim, but treats the identity as something inherently bad. As Ellison said, "A lot of us are waiting for him to say that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, by the way."
This is a case of Barack Obama trying to campaign too hard. He knows that people always connect his name to the Islamic faith. So he is really trying to run away from any type of association. In doing this, he is offending a bloc of voters. Whether, Muslims don't vote for him or not, only time will tell.
It still seems like Muslims will vote for him, as long as they view any problems with his campaign as his campaign staff, not him.
If he is elected ( and hopefully he won't be!), I can pictures liberals and other supporters--They won't blame Barack for anything. It's never him, it's just the incompetent people on his staff. Barack is above reproach and perfect.
It's funny how that method of reasoning didn't apply to George W. Bush. Under Bush's administration, anything that the federal government did wrong was his fault.
Is this fair??.... you decide.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Ellison should resign immediately
(Picture Courtesy of Keith Ellison's Congressional website)We knew the minute that Keith Ellison was elected to Congress that he would cause trouble. Lo and behold, Ellison has now made an unforgiveable remark: a comparison between Hitler and President George W. Bush.
A good Muslim, if there are any left, would certainly blame the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on Islamic fanatics. 19 Islamists killed over 3,000 Americans and destroyed the Twin Towers. There should be no factual dispute there.
To even imply that President George W. Bush might have played a role in the attacks is utterly absurd. In the words of Elizabeth Edwards, comments like that have no place in American political discourse.
Just like Don Imus was forced to leave his radio post, now Keith Ellison should be forced to resign as a United States Congressman. We cannot trust a man who says and believes such utter bunk to be a leader in our Country.
According to the UK's telegram, here is part of what Ellison said. Please see link for full article:
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.
"It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Mr Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/14/wbush114.xml)
Please write letters to Mr. Ellison demanding that he step down from his office.
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