Partial truths told against Obama

Local columnist

link Wendel Sloan

A fellow High Plains conservative recently re-posted: “I know some of you are Democratic, and love Obama, but this is for Christians and Jews.”

The post said in 2009 Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer:

“However, Sept. 25, 2009, a National Day of Prayer for Muslims was held on Capitol Hill, inside the White House. There were over 50,000 Muslims in D.C. that day. PRESIDENT OBAMA PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS!

“At this year’s ‘reinstated’ day of prayer, Obama compared the inhumane and disgusting acts by ISIS fighters to the behavior of Christians, saying Christians behave the same and we shouldn't judge the ISIS fighters.”

I was ready to use today’s column to blast our Muslim-in-Chief.

Wanting to extract biting sarcasm that would make an impression on those not braced for such inflammation from our Kenyan dictator, I diligently listened to Obama’s prayer-day comments, and used incisive Internet drilling to get to the roots of his other abscesses.

When my X-ray research revealed the accusations were only partial truths— like bridges over cavities to nowhere — I was numb.

• Obama’s comments about Christians referred to ancient Crusades and the Inquisition when “people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.”

His point was any religion can be twisted to justify horrific acts.

• When a federal judge ruled in favor of a challenge brought by the Freedom from Religion Foundation that the National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional, the Obama administration was actually the defendant in the suit, eventually prevailing in arguments to retain it.

• There was no national “Islamic Prayer Day” observed by the White House. It was independently organized, and Obama did not participate.

Although it’s like a root canal without anesthesia, journalistic ethics forbid me bonding with my conservative friends by implanting pulp-fiction, whitening the truth or bleaching facts with laughable gas as analgesia for our pain caused by a discolored America-hater wearing the crown.

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