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Faith: Jerome Corsi’s, “The Obama Nation” says Saul Alinsky gave definition to the code word “change.” (radical socialist agenda) Corsi also wrote: al-Qaida supports John McCain (also lies).
Reply: “Obama Nation” is unsupported conjecture, half-truths, logical fallacies and outright falsehoods.
Saul Alinsky — a labor organizer during the 1930s, organized Chicago meat packing workers.
Faith: Convicted felon, Tony Rezko financed Obama’s early elections.
Reply: Obama donated all those contributions to charity.
Faith: Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon had impact on Obama’s thinking.
Reply: Lots of nonradical people have read and been influenced by them.
Faith: Obama is pro-abortion and voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection in the Illinois Legislature.
Reply: Obama is pro-choice, outspoken about unwanted pregnancy prevention and personal responsibility. An existing Born Alive protection bill was already on the books in Illinois.
Faith: Obama is for universal health care. He mandates coverage.
Reply: Obama does not mandate that any adult purchase his health care. If you have health care through your employer, you need to do nothing. Children are covered through expansion of existing programs.
Faith: Global Poverty Act would cost billions.
Reply: The act is in the U.S. Congress. It allocates no funding.
Faith: Does Obama advocate socialism?
Reply: No, it’s populism.
Sources: factcheck.com, barackobama.com, politifact.
com, bloomberg.com, cbo.gov.
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