Taken from Politifact:(Where you can find all kinds of Lies/Flip-Flops/Broken Promises from Obama)
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
Barack Obama on Monday, June 1st, 2009 in interview with Canal Plus Television
Obama claims America is one of the largest Muslim countries
In the days leading up to his trip to Cairo to give a long-awaited speech before a large Muslim audience, President Obama gave several radio and television interviews, including one where he claimed that the United States has so many Muslim residents that it would qualify as one of the largest populations in the world.
"If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, (sic) we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," he told French television station Canal Plus.
Obama's comment was meant to emphasize the religious diversity of the United States and the importance of understanding between the Western world and followers of Islam, a key point in the speech he gave in Cairo on June 4, 2009.
"What I want to do is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world understands more effectively how the United States but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy," he told Canal Plus. "Now, the flip side is I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam."
Some PolitiFact readers heard Obama's claim and asked us to check it. We should note that estimates of the number of Muslims living in America varies greatly. For example, the Islamic Information Center, a group that educates people in the United States about Islam, says there are upwards of 8 million. And NationMaster.com, a Web site that allows users to compare different countries based on demographics, pegs the number at 6 million.
We are using numbers from the CIA Online World Factbook, a highly regarded government source for global statistics. It's updated twice a month, and we're relying on the latest version. By the World Factbook's count, Muslims in the United States make up about .6 percent of the population. That's around 1.8 million.
Using the CIA's data, we made a list of the 60 countries with the most Muslim residents. Coming in first is Indonesia, More than 240 million people live there, and 86.1 percent of the population identifies as Muslim. That means that about 206 million Indonesians are of the Islamic faith.
No. 2 on the list is Pakistan, where 95 percent of the roughly 176 million people identify as Muslim. That means about 167 million residents are of the Islamic faith. India, Bangladesh and Turkey come in next at 156 million, 129 million and 76 million, respectively.
Moving down the list, Morocco takes 10th place with 34 million Muslim residents, and Syria comes in at number 20, with about 18 million Muslims. The No. 60 slot goes to Serbia, home to 236,138 Muslims.
According to our calculations, you have to scroll down to the very bottom to see where the United States fits in amid all these statistics. Again, the CIA Factbook says that less than 1 percent -- 0.6 percent to be precise -- of the 307 million residents identify as Muslim. That means the U.S. has only 1.8 million Muslims in our country.
So, of the 60 most populous Muslim states, the U.S. ranks 58th.
If we rely instead on NationMaster.com, which pegs the Muslim population at 6 million, the U.S. is 37 out of 60. And if we go with 8 million, as the Islamic Information Center estimates, the U.S. comes in at 29 on the list.
The exact number of how many Muslims are living in the United States is fuzzy at best. But one thing is for certain: No matter who you slice it, America ranks low, whether it's 1.8 million or 8 million.
So Obama is trying to make a point that the U.S. is in touch with the Muslim world because it has a substantial Muslim population. But he dramatically overreaches by saying the U.S. would be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world. Ranking 58 out of the world's 60 most populous Muslim nations does not a large Muslim country make. Indeed, by even the most generous estimate we found of 8 million, the U.S. still ranks 29 out of 60. As a result, we give Obama a Pants on Fire.
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ya it is obvious our new leader is a douche.
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It's called, in Soetoro/Obama's world, "I have a dream." God forbid such a nightmare. The sooner the racist, anti-Semitic president usurper is history, the better!
GEORGE BUSH WAS THE GREATEST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY
Nobody in the history of this country was more successful at passing what conservatives will tell you are their key issues. He was not a failure by any stretch of the imagination if you are judging by how much of his party's agenda was achieved.
What did he do to deserve this title?
Biggest tax cuts in history
Biggest cuts in "social" programs
Biggest rollbacks of environmental protections
Most defense spending ever
Biggest rollbacks in business and development regulations
Biggest giveaways of public land for mountaintop mining and timber
Biggest crackdown on civil liberties
Biggest cuts in higher education budgets
Privatization of Military, law enforcement and prison infrastructure
Biggest cuts in Veteran's benefits
Two new ultra right Supreme Court picks
And on and on...
There is nothing this man did that was a failure...if you are judging by whether one advances his party's interests. He was able to accomplish things that conservatives have been whimpering that the dirty "Libtard" congresses of Nixon, Bush I, and Reagan blocked them from doing for 40 years.
Well, the stars lined up for them. They got everything they said would "free capitalism" from the bonds of "big government" to work it's magic.
What did we get?
Worst job creation record since Hoover
Actually LOST jobs over his entire first term
300,000 jobs for his second term
(Jimmy Carter created 10 million jobs in "worst economy in history”)
Millions more people without health insurance
Millions more collecting unemployment from the government
Millions of people’s retirement saving WIPED OUT
Homes worth half what people paid for them
Major decline of respect for US in the world
Continued terrorist attacks on US soil (Anthrax? Snipers?)
Stagnant wages in the midst of inflation in the prices of fuel, food, education and health care resulting in a NET LOSS in the standard of living of the vast majority in this country
Largest gap between rich and poor in this country since the beginning of the Great Depression
It is not George W. Bush's fault and it is not his failure. The fault for the state of this country rests firmly on the POLICIES not the PERSONALITY of GEORGE W BUSH! It is conservative, trickle down, “let business regulate itself” policies that got us where we are.
If we don't acknowledge that then we will repeat this experiment again in the next election. It is important for people to know what they are going to get when they vote for conservatives.
If you make 250,000 a year or more and you want to shut the door to prosperity behind you so you don't need to share your loot then you should vote republican.
But if you are trying to get there, and want policies that help that happen, like a good education and healthcare alternatives so you don't get trapped in a job you hate…even though you have a great idea for a business...then you need to vote for New Deal Liberalism.
New Deal Liberalism is social spending to help you succeed and government regulation to keep powerful corporate interests from rolling right over you and crushing your hopes to line their own pockets the way they did to millions of others in the last 8 years.