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Originally Posted by Thickmadam
sidney i was listening to anderson 360 and he had a man on the streets interviewing people about the cover...one woman actually believed it, said she thought the magazine was breaking a story that obama was muslim and radical.
another woman said it was tasteless...
roland martin thinks he should address it, another panelist...oh gosh, his name escapes me...thinks that he shouldn't. he should focus on his campaign and let this die down (i'm paraphrasing)
i don't know what i think yet...i don't think we need another speech right now, i mean, how many speeches is he going to give to say that he is not a muslim or a radical.
maybe he should make brief comments when asked? something along the lines of...The New Yorker has lost its mind?
and let his campaign people handle this?
the new yorker editor has said that this was too over the top and that if no one gets it, then they don't but that he is not going to retract it.
what do you all think he should do?
should he address or no?
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I don't think he should address it directly. If he is so inclined he can address the nature of false accusations and fear as a proponent of the election process in the US. But I don't think he should address the actual cover. Especially since the New Yorker magazine was actually trying to show how ridiculous the perceptions are.
The sad thing is that he has already addressed these issues. He has an autobiography that was written before he ran for any office! And in this heightened post 9/11 USA, anything, even a blip in his past, would have been discovered...
But my sista, would you believe that there are pro-Obama supporters that actual believe that, deep down, he is a Muslim? I have spoken to avid Obama supporters, who happened to be African Muslims, and they universally felt that he was actually a Muslim deep down.
I was shocked!
It is inexcusable, with all the information available in today's world, that people can allow themselves to be so misinformed.