I don't think that's the real reason. Whether it is or not, American citizens and voters should have not been deprived of knowing. Just look at the harm he has inflicted upon America. He didn't do that just because he was a "mediocre student" and didn't want everyone to know.
At prayer breakfast, Obama says that Americans deserve what happens to them due to "the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ." Yes, according to Obama - the Christians are the evil ones. A position he promoted one day after meeting Muslim leaders at the White House. Critics pounce after Obama talks Crusades, slavery at prayer breakfast http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...15a240-ad50-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html “The president’s comments this morning at the prayer breakfast are the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime,” said former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore (R). “He has offended every believing Christian in the United States. This goes further to the point that Mr. Obama does not believe in America or the values we all share.” ... "Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, called Obama’s comments about Christianity “an unfortunate attempt at a wrongheaded moral comparison.” What we need more is a “moral framework from the administration and a clear strategy for defeating ISIS,” he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State. Obama spoke a day after meeting with Muslim leaders, in what participants said was his first roundtable with a Muslim-only group since taking office. The Muslim leaders who argued that they feel their community has faced unfair scrutiny in the wake of terrorist attacks overseas. Although the White House released only a broad description of the meeting — which touched on issues including racial profiling — participants said it gave them a chance to express their concerns directly to the president."
Just when you think Obama can't possibly stoop any lower, he manages to. Luckily, neither our allies nor our enemies respect or believe a word he says.
Incidentally, I am waiting for the media to start badgering every prominent democrat to say if they agree with Obama's comments. That's what they do anytime a republican says something controversial. The rest are lined up and forced into ritual apologies, which of course, being spineless republicans, they are only too willing to do.
Lol @ "the fainting couch"... Obama riles right with accurate remarks at Prayer Breakfast 02/06/15 04:49 PM By Steve Benen "By now, you’ve probably seen the headlines and the emails from your wacky uncle who watches Fox News all day. President Obama, as he’s done every year, spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, enraging his conservative critics for reasons that don’t make a lot of sense. "The president made the case that while we see faith communities around the world “inspiring people to lift up one another,” we also see “faith being twisted and distorted, used as a wedge – or, worse, sometimes used as a weapon.” After noting horrific acts of terror, sectarian violence, and religious division – “sectarian war in Syria, the murder of Muslims and Christians in Nigeria, religious war in the Central African Republic, a rising tide of anti-Semitism and hate crimes in Europe” – the president added: “So how do we, as people of faith, reconcile these realities – the profound good, the strength, the tenacity, the compassion and love that can flow from all of our faiths, operating alongside those who seek to hijack religious for their own murderous ends? “Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ…. So this is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.” "All of this happens to be 100% true. No faith tradition has a monopoly on virtue or peace; none of the world’s major religions can look back in history and not find chapters they now regret. So why in the world is the right claiming to be outraged? Conservative media lashed out at President Obama for mentioning the Crusades and Inquisition at the National Prayer Breakfast after condemning the Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) as a “death cult” that distorts Islam. Republicans are apparently a little hysterical, with one Fox News host claiming that “essentially” the president argued “Christians were just as bad as ISIS.” Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore (R), desperately trying to get attention as a presidential candidate, called Obama’s remarks “the most offensive I’ve ever heard a president make in my lifetime.” I’m going to assume that the president’s critics aren’t really outraged, but instead are playing a cynical little game in the name of partisan theater. It must be the latest in an endless series of manufactured outrages, because the alternative – that the right is genuinely disgusted – is literally hard to believe. The portion of Obama’s remarks that has drawn so much scrutiny isn’t ambiguous – while people have used religion to advance righteousness and justice, horrible acts have been made in God’s name, no one group should be too quick to condemn another while wrestling with their own misdeeds. Is this accurate? Of course it is. Is it offensive? Only to theists who believe their faith tradition has always been without flaw (or perhaps those who’ve convinced themselves the Crusades and the Inquisition were noble causes, worthy of defense.) It prompted Ta-Nehisi Coates to note the “foolish” and “historically illiterate” responses from the right to the president’s remarks. It’s worth pausing to appreciate that conservative whining about Obama and the National Prayer Breakfast is annoyingly common. In 2013, the president said that as a Christian, his approach to government “coincides with Jesus’s teaching that ‘for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.’” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) condemned the speech on the Senate floor and then-Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) stormed out of the breakfast in protest. One assumes that the right will once again be reaching for the fainting couch this time next year, whatever it is Obama happens to say at the time. There’s no reason for the rest of us, however, to take such hollow complaints seriously.
So what are right-wingers outraged about today? Lets see, ISIS burning human beings alive, thugs shooting cops dead on the street, the fiscal solvency of America....... Now lets examine what left wingers are outraged about..... The vagina monolugues is not "Trans inclusive" A cop who shut an armed robber is not being prosecuted, People are being too harsh on the muslim religion after they burned someone alive, and took over half of Iraq.....
I'm outraged about ISIS. I have no opinion on thugs shooting cops or cops shooting thugs, in general, because I need to know what skin color and political persuasion each person involved in a specific case has, first, so I can be sure they're not merely thugs in your view. Why should anyone be outraged by the fiscal solvency of America?
John Boehner Demands Answers For Benghazi Questions That Have Already Been Answered. The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. House Speaker John Boehner says there are “unanswered questions” about the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi. He specifically asks “why didn’t we attempt to rescue” Americans under siege and why were some U.S. personnel “told not to get involved” in rescue attempts? But those questions have been answered at length in several investigative reports, including two by Republican-controlled House committees.