# The newest 'Obama is a secret Muslim' glurge **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 9, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158 "2008-10-09T13:43:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/1 "2008-10-09T13:43:56Z")
(Don’t waste time reading the whole thing) "The Jihad Candidate: By Rich Carroll Imagine for a few moments that you are the human resources director of a major multi-billion dollar corporation. You are sitting in your large, luxurious office when you receive a phone call from the Chairman of the Board of Directors. He tells you that the board is considering a candidate for a high-level executive position. He advises you to complete a thorough background investigation and have it to him within 10 days. You immediately call the private detective agency you have used for years and give them the name and address of the prospective candidate, along with the deadline for a high level security clearance. Your next move is to call your assistant to your office, giving him/her the candidate’s personal information along with instructions to ‘do your standard beginning background checks.’ Preliminary findings begin landing in your fax machine on the third day. Your candidate has used more than one name. His original birth certificate is unavailable He was mentored during his youth by a high level communist in Hawaii . You receive a 3 page ‘dossier’ on Frank Marshall Davis. You also learn the candidate was proctored into an elite Eastern private university by a middle eastern Muslim. You receive a short dossier on Khalid al-Mansour. You learn the candidate has terrorist organization ‘Nations of Islam’ employees on his current staff, and one of his advisor’s is a member of the global terrorist group ‘Muslim Brotherhood.’ On day four, you receive in the mail from the security agency two books the candidate has written. You read both books, highlighting the anti-American, anti-white racist passages. You note the admissions of drug use. You also receive in the packet a copy of the bitter anti-white thesis his wife wrote as a college undergraduate. You receive a 4 page fax on the candidate’s relative, Raila Odinga, who is connected with brutal Muslim politics in Africa, and background information on the candidate’s estranged father who was part of Kenya 's most corrupt regime. The fifth day brings to your special delivery mail The complete background on Bill Ayers; his association with your candidate, his FBI criminal record, and A copy of the book ‘Rules for Radicals’ written by communist Saul Alinsky. You are advised your candidate used tactics from ‘Rules for Radicals’ at his previous employment. You are advised the candidate’s wife used an excerpt from this book during a recent speech. You receive by fax, a background on A.C.O.R.N. and an alert That this group is being watched by the U.S. Department of Justice and other state and local law enforcement agencies. You learn your candidate is endorsed by every Muslim terrorist organization on Earth; that he holds Muslim beliefs. His friend, Louis Farrakhan, is head of Nations of Islam. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdtirp4XdGs&feature](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdtirp4XdGs&feature) You learn that the candidate’s pastor met with global terrorist Mohmmar Gaddafi in Libya , along with their mutual friend and anti-American Louis Farrakhan. You receive printed transcripts of his pastor’s anti-White, anti-American ‘sermons’ and are advised your candidate has been close personal friends with this ‘pastor’ for two decades. Your candidate has referred to this radical pastor as his ‘personal spiritual advisor,’ and in fact, the title of one of your candidates memoirs was inspired by a line from this pastor’s ‘sermons.’ In your fax machine on the sixth morning is a file on one Tony Rezko; his friendship, associations and business transactions with your candidate, as well as high level ‘people’ of middle eastern origin, and his federal conviction. You will spend most of day seven compiling a file on the candidate, The Obama File , complete with footnotes and cross references. Additional information is arriving regarding the candidate’s friends and acquaintances during college, and you learn that He did not run with a mainstream crowd, but chose radicals and communist agitators for his social group. The morning of the eighth day has arrived and you and your assistant have placed a small mountain of background information into manageable ‘piles’ including Photographs of the candidate’s family in Africa , He and George Soros (including a brief file on the Soros ‘Open Society Institute’), Photos of the candidate and Louis Farrakhan and anti-Israel Arafat advisor Edward Said. You begin to outline and write your ‘Summary Evaluation’ to the Chairman of the Board of Directors: This candidate has a tissue thin work experience resume. He has not managed large groups of personnel, departments, material, or P&L statements. This candidate’s own writing exhibits a deep-seeded anger and resentment towards people of the Caucasian race over the issue of slavery. His emotional gravitas is centered upon his African heritage, and his belief that the white man is responsible for global poverty and unequal sharing of wealth. The candidate’s personal associations since childhood have been mostly with radical African Americans, Muslims, and communists; those who harbor anger towards The United States of America. Particularly disturbing is his lengthy relationship with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant Weatherman radical who bombed government buildings and abdicated the overthrow of the United States . Given the current global situation of nearly twelve thousand Muslim acts of terrorism since 911, it is disturbing to find his close associations with Muslim groups [http://www.mafo2008.com/](http://www.mafo2008.com/) I have highlighted passages in both books and find one particularly disturbing: ‘Should the political winds shift in an ugly direction I will side with the Muslims.’ The candidate has surrounded himself with anti-American grievance mongers, and appears to manipulate ‘typical white people’ by appealing to their guilt about slavery. He is a socialist, and totally disenfranchised from the history of ‘root America .’ The candidate refuses to discuss his years at Columbia University , although he lived off campus and made few friends. He will not release his application to the state bar notes which raises questions on several issues including the use of drugs. Very little is available about his experience with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation that spent $100 million with no discernable benefit for the schools and students that it was putatively designed to help It is therefore my strongest recommendation this candidate not be considered for any position within the corporation. WITH THIS RECORD, HE SHOULDN’T EVEN BE CLEARED FOR ‘UNCLASSIFIED’. SO HOW CAN HE POSSIBLY BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF? " When I looked online to see where the ‘article’ was originally posted, it appears someone has used the title and author, but replaced the article with the stuff above. The original article was offensive and nutty enough, however. ---
**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/2 "2008-10-09T14:18:53Z")
I’ll go one further and pit Sarah Palin and John McCain for not out-and-out condeming this horseshit. Are they really okay with their tacit approval of people booing Obama for being a supposed terrorist at their rallies? I never had much a of an issue with McCain, but Palin has pushed his prettyboy idiocy into new realms. This is just plain dangerous. That’s someone’s father there, someone’s husband. Put a stop to it, or at the very LEAST say you condemn it. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/3 "2008-10-09T14:20:58Z")
[Quote=Ca3799] (Don’t waste time reading the whole thing) [/Quote] OK, I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/4 "2008-10-09T14:26:57Z")
> [@Atomicflea](#): > > I’ll go one further and pit Sarah Palin and John McCain for not out-and-out condeming this horseshit. Are they really okay with their tacit approval of people booing Obama for being a supposed terrorist at their rallies? I never had much a of an issue with McCain, but Palin has pushed his prettyboy idiocy into new realms. This is just plain dangerous. That’s someone’s father there, someone’s husband. > > Put a stop to it, or at the very LEAST say you condemn it. Why should they? It’s obviously ignorant glurge. I commend them for not responding (and I also commend the Democrats for not responding - if that is indeed the case). The potential POTUS has better things to do than respond to obvious crap like this. I do still hold on to a belief in a thinking electorate. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/5 "2008-10-09T14:28:32Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > Why should they? > > It’s obviously ignorant glurge. I commend them for not responding and I also commend the Democrats for not responding - if that is indeed the case). The potential POTUS has better things to do than respond to obvious crap like this. > > I do still hold on to a belief in a thinking electorate. Yeah, well, look at your location… ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/6 "2008-10-09T14:31:11Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/7 "2008-10-09T14:33:25Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > Huh? You’re in OZ, we’re in the US - all the difference in the world. I’m not sure most of our citizens even **have** a brain, let alone use it. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/8 "2008-10-09T14:33:28Z")
Screw the glurge, have you guys seen this from a Palin rally yesterday: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E)? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/9 "2008-10-09T14:36:31Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > You’re in OZ, we’re in the US - all the difference in the world. I’m not sure most of our citizens even **have** a brain, let alone use it. Naah, we can be pretty damn thick too, never you mind. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/10 "2008-10-09T14:38:09Z")
I see Bricker hasn’t bothered to comment on this offensive glurge yet. Must be too busy! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/11 "2008-10-09T14:40:37Z")
A guy from the campaign was on MSNBC this morning, and he was essentially trying to say that these hateful comments and the threatening words coming during Republican rallies were merely a coincidence. If that’s true, surely there are examples of the same things during Obama/Biden speeches, right? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/12 "2008-10-09T14:41:14Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Screw the glurge, have you guys seen this from a Palin rally yesterday: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E)? _cringe_ I was hoping this would stay local (on Ohio blogs). This video makes me feel all pukey inside. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/13 "2008-10-09T15:08:12Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > I see Bricker hasn’t bothered to comment on this offensive glurge yet. Must be too busy! Why should it be **Bricker** ’s job to refute stupid lies? Did someone appoint him Stupid Lie Fact Checker? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/14 "2008-10-09T15:14:14Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > _cringe_ I was hoping this would stay local (on Ohio blogs). This video makes me feel all pukey inside. Can somebody summarize for the videoless? Also, why the hell is it Bricker’s job to denounce this? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/15 "2008-10-09T15:18:31Z")
Nitpick: It ain’t [glurge.](http://www.snopes.com/glurge/glurge.asp) Glurge is **nice.** Stupid, but nice. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/16 "2008-10-09T15:23:59Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Screw the glurge, have you guys seen this from a Palin rally yesterday: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E)? Do people tailgate at political rallies? Cause I’m pretty sure a few of those folks were lit up. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/17 "2008-10-09T15:28:11Z")
Nitpick: This ain’t [glurge.](http://www.snopes.com/glurge/glurge.asp) Glurge is **nice.** Stupid, but nice. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/18 "2008-10-09T15:30:58Z")
I’ve spoken to so many voters who have no idea why they are voting for their candidate. I’m willing to bet that a good percentage of these voters have no idea what the issues are or where their candidate stands on those issues. To that end, scare tactics work. Those tactics reach the less informed and give them a reason not to vote for one of the candidates. Ignorance is alive and well in the general voting population. The scary thing is that the vote of an ignorant , uninformed voter counts the same as one from a voter who has studied the issues. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/19 "2008-10-09T15:45:03Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Can somebody summarize for the videoless? [Here’s the post of the blogger who shot this video](http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/10/video-the-mccain-palin-mob-in-strongsville-ohio) If your work blocks it, here’s his summary: > [@](#): > > It’s no wonder that the slightest incitement from Sarah Palin or John McCain will turn one of their rallies into a lynch mob. Just talk to the folks who attend. > > My camera was rolling for literally seconds before people happily said to me, on camera, that Barack Obama is a terrorist. If I hadn’t spent most of my time at the event inside, waiting for the candidates to show up, I could have gotten dozens of these people on tape. > > It appears the McCain campaign has either been told to tone it down by the Secret Service, or is toning it down themselves, because Ayers never came up in the building. Which is good, because if they had invoked Ayers, this crowd, as you will see from the YouTube, would have easily gone to the death threats we’ve heard before, keeping the Secret Service busy for weeks. Of course, Jim Trakas didn’t get the memo, saying Barack Obama supporters are “sinners” and implored the crowd to “pray for their souls.” > > Bonus footage of people claiming they know Sarah Palin better than they know Barack, and in fact, never heard of Barack. > > I’ve been doing blog video for a while, and presidential rallies a lot longer. And this is the most strange, ignorant, uninformed, angry, up-to-no-good, and gullible group of people I’ve ever seen at a political rally. > > Ever. The comments on his blog post are, of course, good readin’. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158/20 "2008-10-09T16:27:48Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > Why should it be Bricker’s job to refute stupid lies? Did someone appoint him Stupid Lie Fact Checker? > [@Really Not All That Bright](#): > > Also, why the hell is it Bricker’s job to denounce this? The reference is to **Bricker** ’s recent snarking (see the GD ACORN thread) that Doper “leftists” aren’t conscientious enough or quick enough about bringing up news items that reflect badly on Democrats/liberals. So you can expect to see a certain amount of snarkback in the near future whenever **Bricker** doesn’t immediately jump all over a news item that reflects badly on Republicans/conservatives. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-obama-is-a-secret-muslim-glurge/467158.md?page=2)