Just when you think that Newt Gingrich could go no lower, he has found a way to call Obama a Muslim without outright calling him a Muslim. Just a short diary from work; I expect we will hear more about this. Below the Gnocchi of Power:
Politico today reports that Newt Gingrich told a Louisiana audience that while he personally accepts the President's assertions that he is a Christian, he can understand why Obama's sensitivity to other religions might lead people to think he is a Muslim.
Then he launched into a riff on how Obama’s policies are excessively sensitive to non-Christian, non-Jewish faiths, suggesting it could raise doubts for some about where the president’s impulses come from.
“Why does the president behave the way that people would think that [he’s Muslim]?” Gingrich said. “You have to ask, why would they believe that? It's not cause they're stupid. It's because they watch the kind of things I just described to you.”
I hesitate to quote more from a very short column, but I encourage you to read the article even if you dislike giving site hits to Politico.
I would suggest that people think that the President is a Muslim because they are, in fact, stupid, and bigoted as well. But that is just me and I am a liberal. And as Newt noted,
“They're [The President's values are] just standard, left-wing values, which is as long as you're not Christian or Jewish we respect you.”
Of course, Newt has practiced three different variants of Christianity and I don't respect him, so there is that.