What a perfect front if he cleans up:<br> First 100 days:<br> a) Retake Havana<br> b) Sanction Chavez<br> c) Invade Iran<br> <br> Run Barack run!<br><br><b><i>Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> The Times (London) - January 20, 2007<br><br>Obama 'was educated in madrassa'<br>Tim Reid and Tom Baldwin in Washington<br><br>Senator hid time there, says article<br>Clinton distances herself from claims<br><br>Barack Obama was given a rude awakening to the cut-throat world of <br>presidential politics yesterday after being accused of hiding four <br>years in which he was educated at a madrassa when a teenager.<br><br>The claim, made in the conservative Insight magazine, also revealed <br>the Machiavellian scheming of political activists in a presidential <br>race still nearly two years away.<br><br>It was aimed at tarnishing Mr Obama's image in
the week he announced <br>himself as a White House contender. But the article also claimed that <br>the madrassa allegations came from aides to Hillary Clinton, Mr <br>Obama's main opponent for the Democratic nomination.<br><br>This may be wishful thinking on behalf of Republicans. The Clinton <br>camp is determined not to be accused of digging dirt on Mr Obama <br>because they fear such tactics could backfire, given his popularity.<br><br>But the Insight allegations represent an exquisite double shot at the <br>Democrats' two leading White House contenders: it implies that Mr <br>Obama, whose middle name is Hussein, is a closet Islamic extremist, <br>and that Mrs Clinton is so rattled by his candidacy she is using <br>underhand tactics to weaken him.<br><br>Mr Obama, who is expected to announce formally his candidacy on <br>February 10, has never been subjected to the hardball tactics of the <br>presidential arena — until yesterday. Last night an aide said that
<br>the campaign was working on a formal statement, but added that the <br>claims were "not accurate".<br><br>The online article begins: "Are the American people ready for an <br>elected president who was educated in a madrassa as a young boy and <br>has not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage?" It continues: <br>"This is the question Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp is asking <br>about Senator Barack Obama."<br><br>Mr Obama's mother was a white woman from Kansas; his father, a black <br>Kenyan Muslim. He states in his recent biography that he attended a <br>predominately Muslim school when he lived in Jakarta as a teenager.<br><br>But the article claims: "In Indonesia, the young Obama was enrolled <br>in a madrassa and was raised and educated as a Muslim." It says that <br>Mr Obama omitted to say in his memoir, or at any other time, that he <br>attended the school for four years.<br><br>Mr Obama, who has spent his adult life in Chicago, calls
himself a <br>Christian and says that he believes in God. He attends a local church.<br><br>A source close to the Clinton campaign told The Times, a day before <br>the Insight article was published, that they do not want to be seen <br>as attacking Mr Obama or digging for dirt, but that they would be <br>happy for another Democrat contender to criticise him.<br><br><br>___________________________________<br>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>"Mary Poppins is alive and well in Argentina, she sends her regards."<br>- Rod McKuen, The Mud Kids<p> 
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