Letters to the Editor
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Yeah, This Is Why I Don't Watch MSNBC
See above. And as for the claim that, if Obama was asked whether Hillary was lesbian, he would have said something less qualified than what Hillary said about his religion, I don't think so. Seriously, think about it. Suppose you were Obama and someone asked you if you thought Hillary might be gay. You couldn't say, "no, she's not," because you don't really know. You'd really just be guessing. The only honest answer you could give is that, as far as you knew, she wasn't and that there's no reason you know of to think otherwise. Similarly, we don't really know how Obama spent his time in Indonesia, whether as a child his mother read him the Koran just a little, as his sister claims*, no doubt at the behest of the campaign, or a lot - none of that information is available to us, so all one can say is that there's no reason to think he's a Muslim. To make a categorical denial would be dishonest.
* NYT: Your mom has been described as an atheist.
Obama's Sister: I wouldn’t have called her an atheist. She was an agnostic. She basically gave us all the good books — the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the Buddhist scripture, the Tao Te Ching — and wanted us to recognize that everyone has something beautiful to contribute.
NYT: You didn’t mention the Koran in that list, although Indonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world.
Obama's Sister: I should have mentioned the Koran. Mom didn’t really emphasize the Koran, but we read little parts of it. We did listen to morning prayers in Indonesia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20wwln-Q4-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all