Terxpahseyton
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Gov. Scott Walker: I dont know whether Obama is a Christian
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Tahuti
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Human sacrifices, Suttee, Sharia and Bolshevism.
gay_Aleks
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Let's not forget Anarchism, although one could say it's under the Bolshevism part.
timtofly
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Sounds like the makings of a "great" president.
See, I think he can't even say that. There's just no way to 'win' with this kind of question, which makes it a stupid 'gotcha' question. The pundits would go on to over-emphasize 'claim' and suggest he was being sarcastic or judgey.
Naw, his "I'm not going to answer, it's not something I'd really know" is a perfectly good answer.
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That may be correct, but it won't work. Walker's support base demands that at any opportunity the President must be accused of being a lying Muslim Kenyan. For Walker to use the words "I will take his word on..." would lead to them immediately turning on him.
That's why the media asks him questions like this. People who are not whack jobs do actually want to know how far he will go in pandering to his collected whack jobs. His collected whack jobs also want to be pandered to and want the media to give their guy the opportunity. On both sides the media is giving the people what they want.
Okay, so some context here.
Walker probably has a right to be a little upset, since his answer is actually pretty fair. Walker doesn't know Obama, and since Walker's perception of of what Christianity entails goes far beyond labeling. If you don't know somebody, you can't really give a real answer about something so personal about their religious faith.
Of course, this question isn't just a simple question. There is a ton of subtext here in the conservative movement about insinuating that Obama is a Muslim, or to make statements similar to this to play up the somehow "other-ness" of Obama, like Rudy did recently. Perhaps Walker meant to do this as a subtle way to pump up the red meat crowd. Maybe he had no idea. But he should have been smart enough to understand the way such a remark might be packaged and sold.
For the WHY IS THIS NEWS crowd, our stupid political press only asks questions like this because the rest of the country, despite their wild cries that they don't care...actually cares deeply, and will click the hell out of this story. I occasionally will write the sports equivalent of such a banal story, for the same, completely rational reason.
Does all of this REALLY matter? Perhaps you can use this as a data point to show that Scott Walker doesn't have a sophisticated ability to deal with the national press, but you probably knew that already, given that he's only really been a national figure for a few weeks. There are far more important stories to dig into him for, like his ethical lapses, his declaration of war against one of the best public university systems in the country, and his Bush-like cultural conservatism....so this doesn't make the top ten.
Walker probably has a right to be a little upset, since his answer is actually pretty fair. Walker doesn't know Obama, and since Walker's perception of of what Christianity entails goes far beyond labeling. If you don't know somebody, you can't really give a real answer about something so personal about their religious faith.
Of course, this question isn't just a simple question. There is a ton of subtext here in the conservative movement about insinuating that Obama is a Muslim, or to make statements similar to this to play up the somehow "other-ness" of Obama, like Rudy did recently. Perhaps Walker meant to do this as a subtle way to pump up the red meat crowd. Maybe he had no idea. But he should have been smart enough to understand the way such a remark might be packaged and sold.
For the WHY IS THIS NEWS crowd, our stupid political press only asks questions like this because the rest of the country, despite their wild cries that they don't care...actually cares deeply, and will click the hell out of this story. I occasionally will write the sports equivalent of such a banal story, for the same, completely rational reason.
Does all of this REALLY matter? Perhaps you can use this as a data point to show that Scott Walker doesn't have a sophisticated ability to deal with the national press, but you probably knew that already, given that he's only really been a national figure for a few weeks. There are far more important stories to dig into him for, like his ethical lapses, his declaration of war against one of the best public university systems in the country, and his Bush-like cultural conservatism....so this doesn't make the top ten.
aelf
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And, of course, this particular subject matter is of interest to begin with because it actually matters to conservatives whether or not the president is personally and privately a Christian.
Narz
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How is this even news? Why did I click this?
I think the second half of that answers the first!
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
You clicked this because you wondered how this is news.
Narz
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Maybe I'm jealous that my idiotic & irreverent opinion about the private beliefs of others isn't widely known/cared about.
"Narz wonders if the Pope seriously believes his own hype, more at 11"
"Narz wonders if the Pope seriously believes his own hype, more at 11"
Given that Walker has to converse with someone to know facts about them, how can he know that Jesus is the Son of God and how can he claim to be a Christian?
It was probably written down in a book he read somewhere.
Berzerker
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Walker never heard about Obama and his preacher in Chicago? I find that hard to believe
I know!
I listen to the guy rant about America for 10 seconds and I think, "clearly a Baptist".
Anyone who says Obama went to the guy's service for 20 years and then turns around in the same breath to say he is a Muslim is nuts.
Some kind of double-think or cognitive dissonance there.
Obama is clearly Baptist. (Whom are usually gun nutters in my experience)
Spoiler :
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Naive are those who think the OP is an exception of the news, rather than the rule.
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