Will Santorum Denounce Graham Smear?

22 February 2012 |permalink | email article

FANNED by some the conversation goes on as Lent begins today about whether Obama is a Muslim. On Tuesday the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of the famous preacher Billy Graham, said he believes that President is a Christian, but could actually be a Muslim, too. “Obama said he’s a Christian, so I just have to assume, you know, that he is, Graham said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe, adding that he doesn’t know whether Obama has accepted Jesus Christ as his lord and savior. Under intense questioning by the panel Graham repeated his claim that Obama’s father was a Muslim and therefore the “Muslim world sees him as a son of Islam.” But Graham refused to go so far as to say “categorically” that Obama doesn’t practice Islam. “I can’t categorically say because Islam has gotten a free pass under Obama, referring to Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. As dictators fall, Graham added, Islamists are taking control of the Middle East. “Now, these Christian minorities throughout the Arab world are under attack.” Now the question is whether evangelical Christians, and, more to the point, Rick Santorum, a Catholic, will denounce this smear?

California Politic

Meg Whitman, the former chairman of Hewlett-Packard, is back in the post and last month contributed a $100,000 super PAC check to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Whitman, who spent $144 million of her own money in a losing campaign against Jerry Brown for governor in 2010, was finance chairman of Romney’s losing presidential bid in 2008. The relationship between the two wealthy executives goes back to the 1980s when she worked for Romney at Bain & Co. Last year she told the Sacramento Bee she would consider a presidential appointment if Romney was elected president.

L.A. Politic

Sheriff Lee Baca’s appearance in uniform, with his badge prominently shown, was a political advertisement to help controversial L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich become L.A. County DA. It’s a clear violation of law. As an elected county official for 14 years Baca has no excuse—and The Times, in a biting editorial Tuesday, won’t let him forget it. Back in the mid-1930s, political corruption in the City of the Angels was rampant. Notorious LAPD chief James E. Davis and his special intelligence squad ran the rackets and organized graft for corrupt Mayor Frank Shaw, recalled from office. Some police chiefs since then have unfortunately been more political than others.

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