Obama Goes On Campaign to Debunk Madrassa Education Allegation

It's good to see Obama debunking this slanderous nonsense.

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Obama Goes On Campaign to Debunk Madrassa Education Allegation

Presidential Hopeful Slams Suggestions Made About His Education in Mostly Muslim School

By JAKE TAPPER and NITYA VENKATARAMAN

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2819634

Jan. 24, 2007 — Sensing a need to respond to an untrue allegation that he had been educated during his childhood in an Indonesia madrassa, Sen. Barack Obama and his staff have aggressively launched a campaign to debunk the story, perhaps indicating a fear that some may believe it.

"When I was six, I attended an Indonesian public school where a bunch of the kids were Muslim, because the country is 90 percent Muslim," the Democratic presidential hopeful told ABC's Chicago affiliate WLS-TV. "The notion that somehow, at the age of 6 or 7, I was being trained for something other than math, science and reading, is ludicrous."

Obama described the allegation as indicative of the "climate of smear" associated with presidential campaigns and called on the press to make sure "stories are substantiated."