Obama Verbal Slip Pounced On By Republicans

September 8. 2008

Barack Obama

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made a slip during an interview with political pundit George Stephanopoulos. Instead of saying “my Christian faith” he said “my Muslim faith.”

This did nothing to help rumors that have swirled from the beginning of the campaign alleging Obama is a Muslim, which he denies.

Obama's verbal slip fuels his critics

Sunday, September 7, 2008 - ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim faith."

The three words -- immediately corrected -- were during an exchange with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," when he was trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim.

But illustrating the difficulty of preventing false rumors about his faith from spreading, anti-Obama groups within one hour of the interview had sliced it out of context and were sending it around via email. They also were blogging about it.

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