Obama’s 180 on Islam

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,Worldnetdaily

One year ago,in June 2008,Floyd produced a television ad that asked the simple question,“Was Barack Obama ever a Muslim?”The Obama campaign came unglued. It earned Floyd prominent placement on a special Obama website called “Fight the Smears.”

The news media jumped on the bandwagon. Newsweek reported:“Barack Obama has never been Muslim and never practiced Islam. But rumors about his religion intended to frighten some voters persist,and they mostly return to one point of fact:his name.”The Boston Globe wrote:“Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ. His Kenyan paternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather were Muslim,but he attended secular and Catholic schools and was never a practicing Muslim.”

The attacks on Floyd grew personal;Chris Matthews on MSNBC,all but called Floyd a racist,saying,“This guy hides under a rock every couple generations,shows up again with another ad against a black candidate.”(There never was a black nominee to do ads against before Obama,but facts are not important to Matthews.) Obama even blamed Floyd for breaking his pledge to use public financing for his campaign,saying,“527s pop up pretty quickly and have enormous influence and we’ve seen them – there was an ad,one in South Dakota by Floyd Brown I think where it took a speech that I had made extolling faith and made it seem as if I had said that America was a Muslim nation.”