Presidential elections

WELCOME TO ALL PARTIES TO DEBATE HERE OF COURSE IM A REPUBLICAN AS YOU MAY BE ABLE TO TELL BY NOW

Predictably, Totoro is your 1st lib debater. There are a bunch of points I would like to debate you on just on this poll, but I'll start with the most obvious one: How is it that Obama can be a Muslim AND have Reverend Wright as a pastor. I don't believe Reverend Wright is a Muslim. I'm interested in what your response will be to this...

Despite all of your previous name calling, I will do something to help you out. Because of a glitch in Misterpoll, if you put a limit on your poll responses, someone who votes in your poll will not be able to return to your message area to post. It will say "sorry, you have already voted in this poll" and not let you do anything. If you don't put a limit on the responses, it will still not allow someone to vote twice (which is good) but will allow someone to go to the message area. I wanted to respond earlier, but couldn't do it until I found your post to this poll under your name. Why am I being so nice.?..well, despite my occaisional obnoxiousness, I am actually a nice person overall, but more importantly, I was getting bored not having many people debate me in the "politics" section....Actually, I think they just fixed this.

"How is it that Obama can be a Muslim AND have Reverend Wright as a pastor. I don't believe Reverend Wright is a Muslim. I'm interested in what your response will be to this..."

Haha, good response, Tortoro! Aslo, "dom the bomb", no offense, but shouldn't a debate be about policy, and not about campaign antics? Furthermore, while there may not be any Muslims running for President currently, it seems you implied in one of your questions that it would be a bad thing to elect a Muslim President. Why is this a bad thing? Only 10% of worldwide Muslims are fundamentalists, meaning they take a strict interpretation of the Quran. Therefore, 90% of the world's 1.1 billion or so Muslims are non-fundamentalist. Even among the 10% that are, they aren't necessarily violent. In fact, less than 1% of worldwide Muslims are fundamentalist extremists, meaning even among fundamentalists, more than nine out of ten aren't extremists--the type that comprise Muslim terrorist groups. Finally, if a Muslim is willing to live in a modernized country like the U.S., they're even less likely to be a fundamentalist or an extremist. So if a Muslim was to run for President, it's unlikely they'd wish to implement a Sharia state.

Islam is the most racially diverse major religion in the United States according to a Newsweek poll I saw back in the Summer of 2005 in the form of a pie chart. There's a surprisingly even ratio of blacks, asians, whites, latinos and "other minorities" (likely Arabs) who practice the faith here in America. Americans seem to want a President who can "bring unity", so what would be wrong with a President from a faith with such diversity? Wouldn't they know a thing or two about tolerance and unity?

k thanks for letting me know that but i did not say anything about barack being a muslim i just implied it i dont even think it mentions his name in it at all and i dont even mention hillary or mccain. but i do think barack is a muslim and his reverand is just a plain and simple anti-american.

But that's the point; how can he be a Muslim if he's had a reverend as his spiritual guide? If he were a Muslim, he'd be close with an Imam, not a Reverend. And no, you didn't directly mention Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain, but you strongly implied which of them you were talking about in each question. After all, you just admitted that you think Obama's a Muslim even though you didn't actually say it. As for Jeremiah Wright, he's made some harsh criticism of American foriegn policy that might offend some people, but he's also done some good things. He allowed openly gay people in his congregation, couples of whom were often seen holding hands in the front pews, completely undiscriminated against. White people who attended the church never felt threatened by him; sure, he made strong statements about the situation of blacks in America, but it was never out of hatred for whites. The most crucial thing to point out is that Wright was Obama's spiritual guide--not his political science teacher. If you look at Obama's politics, they aren't nearly as radical as Wright's--far from it. Obama's a centrist at best; this is precisely why I don't understand why we have to have all the political chaos caused by the prior Obama-Wright spiritual relationship. Like I mentioned in my previous post, politics should be about the issues that matter, not about who's associated with whom.