I agree...It is an abrubt change in status...And I find it also interesting, considering said adult can go to war and possibly die, or even enter into a marriage at age 18...But same said adult isn't considered adult enough to buy a drink in a bar or a 6-pack at the store til they're 21...
But irregardlessly, they're not considered an adult until age 18...Despite the fact that they're allowed to do certain things and denied other things based on that adult status...
For one thing, there's no way to know IF Obama's father himself was Islamic...All we know is the fact that his father came from a predominantly Islamic country. Even then, that still doesn't hold any 'influence' as to what Obama himself was. Especially considering he wasn't born in Kenya, but in Hawaii...A non-Islamic state within a non-Islamic country...
The MOST you can say is that Obama was born in a mixed-religious family (Non-practicing Christian Mother and possibly Islamic Father) with both possible influences in his childhood. BUT, you'd rather be deceptive in that fact, ignore his Christian roots, for no other reason then to create false fear and innuendo.
And again...about the step-father...His step-father was born Muslim but himself was ATHIEST...Or if you'd perfer, AGNOSTIC in his practices. In otherwords, he was in no way a practicing Muslim and even Obama's own writtings about his stepfather point that out in how his step-father held other beliefs very contrary to his Muslim upbringing...
Again, you are being deceptive and misleading while ignoring the facts only to foster more fear and false innuendos against Obama himself.
By the way...Now you're being wishy-washy. Your original comment was that Obama lived in Indonesia and had his STEP-FATHER'S Muslim influence the majority of his life...
Then, when I point out to you that Obama didn't spend the majority of his life in Indonesia, but Hawaii and state-side...You switch your claims to then try to include his father, while still trying to maintain that 'Obama was mainly influenced by Islam all his life'?
What about the influence of his mother? You want to make an issue about what countries the father and step-father were from, but you totally discount where his mother was from and what her own religious influences would have been on that child?
Not to mention, you want to make some big deal out of his father's absentee influence, based on nothing more then where his father was from without any knowledge of the father's religious upbringing (innuendo only) as well as ignore the step-father's actual religious preferences of being athiest...Again, only focusing on where they were from, lived, in order to foster fear and innuendo on Obama?
And to further show just how deceptive you are about presenting facts about Obama, you are trying to insist that his name makes him Muslim, despite the fact that the name doesn't make the person or say what that individual's beliefs are? Like Obama had say or control in what name his parents gave him. ROTFLMAOL!!!
But like I said...I don't expect much more from your type then you've shown in your posts...You're into dirty politics and you really can't help yourself in playing the innuendo game in order to get people to choose your side of issues through misinformation and fear...And if there isn't any dirt about them, you're more then happy to make it up as you go along, cause nothing's worse in your mind then an informed voter...You want them as scared and paranoid as you are, in hopes they'll vote as paranoid and scared as you vote. LOL!
Just like the politicians you more then likely support. Why ever would you want to address pros-cons about a canidate's actual policies when you can engage in smear campains and gossip about them instead. LOL!
I'll be so happy when we get more canidates that not only can seperate their religions from our goverment, but that can inspire the voters to do the same...And that's half the problem with your side's mentality...You can't seperate your religious beliefs and fears, from the canidates themselves. You even got to smear your Christian canidates for no other purpose then to say they're not 'Christian enough' or 'Christian long enough'...
I'm looking forward to the day we start voting Athiests into the executive offices...So we can finally enjoy a 'goverment seperate from religion' democracy that our founding fathers dreamed of.
