Many Kentucky voters misinformed about Obama’s faith.
Many Kentucky voters misinformed about Obama’s faith.
A poll of likely Kentucky voters finds that, “despite heavy national media attention about Obama’s faith, more than half of likely Republican voters — 54 percent — and one of every four Democrats in the state do not know that the Democratic presidential nominee is a Christian.” The poll indicated that “14 percent of likely Kentucky voters — 28 percent of Republicans, 4 percent of Democrats and 11 percent of independents — think Obama adheres to the Muslim faith.” Mahmoud Shalash, imam of the Islamic Center of Lexington, argued that the poll numbers are the result of a deliberate fear-mongering campaign:
“I am concerned that some people are spreading this rumor for political purposes, trying to exploit the anti-Islamic sentiment in this country that ties Muslims with terrorists,” Shalash said. “I don’t blame the ignorant bigots as much as the educated people who try to perpetrate this.
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Tell them to watch Biography Thursday night. Oh, wait, that would mean having cable tv–too elitist
October 26th, 2008 at 10:37 pmAn informed electorate requires a responsible media …
October 26th, 2008 at 10:38 pmNo surprise here! So much for the separation of church and state. And they get upset when phrases like “clinging to religion” are used in reference to them.
They all should read this before voting: A Letter From God To American Voters.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:39 pmYou simply can’t cure stupid.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:45 pmIf they want us to stop being elitists, then they should stop being so damn stupid.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:47 pmTell them to watch Barack Obama on national TV on Wednesday night. This misinformation is the very reason that volunteers need to make phone calls. Phone banking is critical.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:49 pmI’d have to knock off more than half of my IQ points to even understand the intelligence level that these people must possess. They need to breed up out of the shallow end of the gene pool.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:52 pm#7-was I wrong? Thought the Biography special was Thursday, or is there something different going on Wednesday that I haven’t yet heard about? I have been working a lot of hours this week and haven’t been keeping up the last few days.
October 26th, 2008 at 10:55 pmKentucky must be a great place to sell swampland.
The Mess We’re in:
October 26th, 2008 at 10:58 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBWkNFtrEg
One problem with Southwestern Ohio is that it is way too close to KY. This explains Mean Jean Schmidt, Steve (Chabby) Chabot and John (Pork Chop) Boehner.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:36 pmSadly, it’s not just that they think he’s a Muslim (besides, if he really was, so what?). I live in Kentucky, and you know, I’ve actually met people who think Obama is the antichrist. For real; I sh!t you not.
On the other hand, everyone just loves Sarah Palin, for no real reason in particular. You can’t even reason with most of them. It’s really embarrassing.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:40 pmKentucky remains a hick state.
They won’t vote for Sen. Obama because he’s an African-American.
It’s the African part they don’t like.
If they were told the truth about Sen. Obama faith they still wouldn’t believe it.
I never thought of visiting Kentucky too backwards for my taste.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:47 pmDoes Ms Palin have ties to separatist sympathizers? Just wondering…
October 26th, 2008 at 11:58 pmKentuckians make great Bourbon and fantastic banjos.
That is all.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:00 amIs this the same state that has the snake handlers regilious nutties? Would explain a lot.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:04 amThe Cration Museum is in Petersburg, KY near the Cincinatti Airport. The Flintstones was true!
The reason they had/have moonshiners is that of the 120 counties in Kentucky, 53 are completely “dry” (illegal to sell even beer). In 1975 it was 85 counties.
I hear it is the land of beautiful horses and fast women—or is it the other way around?
October 27th, 2008 at 12:17 amsnake handling religions from wikipedia:
“……fifty to a hundred congregations. According to the Encyclopedia of American Religions, churches “can be found from central Florida to West Virginia and as far west as Columbus, Ohio”. The snake-handling sect of beliefs and practices go as far as to cross the border into Western Canada in 2004 to Lethbridge and Edmonton, Alberta.”
It began in southeast Tennessee.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:26 amBack to reality:
U.S. threatens to halt services to Iraq without troop accord
By Roy Gutman and Leila Fadel
BAGHDAD _ The U.S. military has warned Iraq that it will shut down military operations and other vital services throughout the country on Jan. 1 if the Iraqi government doesn’t agree to a new agreement on the status of U.S. forces or a renewed United Nations mandate for the American mission in Iraq.
Many Iraqi politicians view the move as akin to political blackmail, a top Iraqi official told McClatchy Sunday.
In addition to halting all military actions, U.S. forces would cease activities that support Iraq’s economy, educational sector and other areas _ “everything” _ said Tariq al Hashimi, the country’s Sunni Muslim vice president. “I didn’t know the Americans are rendering such wide-scale services.”
Hashimi said that Army Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, listed “tens” of areas of potential cutoffs in a three-page letter, and he said the implied threat caught Iraqi leaders by surprise.
“It was really shocking for us,” he said. “Many people are looking to this attitude as a matter of blackmailing.”
Odierno had no comment Sunday, but U.S. Embassy officials told McClatchy that a lengthy list of the sort Hashimi described has been passed to the Iraqi government. Among the services the U.S. provides are protection of Iraq’s principal borders, of its oil exports and other shipping through the Shatt al Arab into the Persian Gulf and all air traffic control over Iraq. [...]
I smell the odor of political cordite burning…
One week until the election, and Odierno starts throwing his weight around with the Iraqis?
They’re really desperate.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:36 amOnly 54%? Fox News is slipping.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:47 am#9..Lone Voice of Reason….Welcome back to the funny farm that is this campaign for the time you were working so hard making a living:)Barack Obama has bought up 1/2 hour on TV this Wed. night to speak to America these last days of the campaign. I agree it would be the perfect time for the people of Kentucky to see what this extraordinary candidate has to say as this finally winds down. Will they? Don’t know…I think it may be just easier for them to believe the lies/smears.Anything else would require reading and educating themselves to the truth.Sad. That goes for ANYONE else that buys into the lies…not just the people of Kentucky.Happy watching!!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:49 ambarfly. If their not providing services, could we like, bring them home?
October 27th, 2008 at 12:50 amLet the UN or Arab League move into Iraq. Mission accomplished!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:54 amWell, I guess that says a lot about the educational system in Kentucky. They can’t educate their citizens to the extent where they are capable of doing some minor research. Apparently they get all their “education” from Faux Noise.
That is so sad.
October 27th, 2008 at 1:42 amThe only hope for McCain’s faltering campaign at this late hour is either a better apparatus than the MSM news for delivering misinformation and hate or the 1st brigade of the 3rd Infantry division intervening with their tanks .
October 27th, 2008 at 1:43 amBOOM !
Lets hope that the stock market crash was the October suprise !
October 27th, 2008 at 1:46 amSimilarly how the media and government fool the people—Zogby Feb 2006 poll of our troops in Iraq:
“While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks,” 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.”
In spite of believing these two lies, 72% of our troops thought they should be totally out of Iraq by Feb. 2007.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:26 amHaving just viewed DELIVERANCE again, I think that I can see why.
¶ AIO
October 27th, 2008 at 3:14 am.
Hey, If Good Germans could fall that crap in the 1930’s…
… Why can’t Good Americans, NO?
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October 27th, 2008 at 3:35 am#14 RUCerious,
October 27th, 2008 at 3:42 amThe Governor sleeps with one.
And many Kentucky voters are also misinformed that there’s a cutoff age in the rest of the country for sleeping with one’s parents.
October 27th, 2008 at 6:03 amAnd a good percentage of the population think that Obama is a socialist, some think he is even a Communist.
October 27th, 2008 at 6:09 amSarah Palin thinks Obama is a socialist and a Communist,and she is not shy about saying it.
Sarah Palin who grew up in a small town in Alaska and now groomed to be our VP,and a good chance to be the President had little contacts with foreigners most of her life,and no interest or need to seek knowledge about the rest of the world.
That’s why relying solely on the mainstream media is very dangerous to these people.
Some of these people know little about the rest of the world,and have little contacts with foreigners and their culture.
They became victims of media networks and politicians applying fear,misinformation blended with religious themes.
It is very easy to sell hate and fear to these people.
When a woman stood up and asked McCain during a rally “Is Obama an Arab”? that represented a fear mongering implanted in these peoples brains about Arabs.
And what was McCain answer? “No mam, He is a decent man”,implying an Arab is not a decent man.
While McCain tried to look nice, he was also insulting Arabs in the same time.
There is no shortage of politicians,media people who can and love to exploit these people.
Fear now seems to be the way to win for many politicians.
It is around us 24 hours and we can feel it all day long.
I know that most residents of KY are misinformed about the meaning of “Slower Traffic Keep Right”.
They are worse than Tennesseeans about driving slow in the left lane, especially on I-24
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A poll of likely Kentucky voters finds that, “despite heavy national media attention about Obama’s faith, more than half of likely Republican voters — 54 percent — and one of every four Democrats in the state do not know their ass from a hole in the ground.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:54 amtarazan Says:
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And a good percentage of the population think that Obama is a socialist, some think he is even a Communist.
I’m pretty sure he isn’t. He never shows up at the meetings.
October 27th, 2008 at 8:57 amIt would be instructive to know if that same 14 percent of Kentucky voters get their “information” from a porcine gasbag named Rush every day on the radio.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:11 amKentucky’s no. 1 cash crop:
MARIJUANA.
Paranoia mixed with ignorance is a seriously bad mix.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:14 amI still can’t get my head around how 14% of the voters in any state of our country are so woefully uniformed as to believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. Do these people watch Fox News 24 x 7? … guess that answers my question.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:15 amI hate to blow the whistle on my own state here, but 14% in Kentucky is down-right reasonable compared to my brilliant fellow Arkansans. A poll just released last week found that nearly 20% of likely Arkansas voters think Obama is a muslim.
That’s right, nearly 1 in every 5. No wonder the same poll showed McSame in the lead by 13 points here. Makes you wonder how we have a congressional delegation that’s 5/6ths Democrat. Oh wait–that’s right, only Vic Snyder here in Little Rock is a real progressive, the rest are Blue-Dog stalwarts.
Oh well, at least they caucus with the right party, even if their votes on progressive legislation are about as reliable as Dick Cheney’s left ventricle…
October 27th, 2008 at 10:24 amPerhaps the folks in Kentucky were confused by the words in BHO’s book.
From Audacity of Hope:page 261
October 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am
OK folks, despite a flood of information, 1/4 of Americans think Obama is a Muslim – can’t seem to grasp that having a father who is a (non-practicing) Muslim doesn’t make you a Jihadist Muslim. And we still can’t handle the Shia / Sunni thing either.
In CDC studies, a significant portion of the population doesn’t know that AIDS is a body-fluid borne illness.
25% think Bush is still doing one heck-of-a-job.(double meaning intentional).
In other words, what can you do about chronically stupid and how come their vote counts the same as mine ?
I’d like to think that these 25%ers are from the lower 25% of IQ, but I’ve know some high IQ folks who fall into the above groups.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:50 ambitblt Says:
From Audacity of Hope:page 261
I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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What’s confusing about that? He’s saying that he’s not going to discriminate against people based on their religion, even if it’s the popular thing to do.
You should take a lesson from him.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pmROFLMAO!
Thankfully all the idiots here that does not like Kentucky are not living here. If you all were then it would definately be an ignorant state. A lot of people can speak big sitting at a computer and yes, I did say that all of you are idiots and I would say that to your face.
Please do not drive through or visit this state as we do not want you here with ignorant attitudes like you have. If you do visit then please state some of the things that you have stated on here. Be men and say them as I am sure that you will easily find good debate when you do and I am sure that you all like good debate!
Anyhow, for all of you informed people that are suppose to be up on current events and all, apparently you are not. The economy is not as bad here as in a lot of the country. The housing market is still good and the recession that we are in has not been an issue for many people. Hmmm, is us dumb hicks doing something right??
In closing, I have a masters in Criminal Justice and an IQ of 128…I will put that up against any of you biggots on this page! You all make me sick!
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