Pastor Stands by Claim That Barack Obama Is 'Son of Satan'
President Barack Obama is the "son of Satan" and "carnal manifestation of evil," according to the mayor of New Mexico and a New York City pastor who agrees with his statements.
Mayor David Lansford was victorious with 63 percent of votes against incumbent New Mexico Mayor Gayla Brumfield on Tuesday. However, he has also gained a great deal of attention for his negative statements about President Obama.
In the past, Lansford has spoken out about the president, saying that Obama helped create a Taliban terrorist group.
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"I found it very interesting what is not being talked about. I came to the conclusion that it's a cover up," Lansford said, according to KOB-TV in New Mexico. "There's a lot of things that aren't being told about the president."
In light of the upcoming 2012 presidential election, many have focused their energies on Obama. However, controversial New York pastor James Manning said the New Mexican media have not been covering Lansford accurately.
"They have associated David Lansford with James Manning, that's me yours truly. They've called me an ex-con, hate preacher. Well it's true," Manning said. "We need to return Americans back to America and taken away from these quasi-Muslims, these ineligible people and that is all David Lansford is asking to happen."
Aside from Lansrord and Manning, others have been working to discredit the president. Andrew Breitbart, a publisher and commentator who died recently, unearthed a video of Obama speaking at a rally while in Harvard Law School.
Fox News' Sean Hannity recently aired the 1991 footage of Obama petitioning for the school's first black professor, Derrick Bell. Before he died, Breitbart prefaced the video by saying that Obama was focused on racial division.
"We are going to vet [Obama] from his college days to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008," the late Breitbart said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.
However Breitbart's intentions for showcasing the video missed the mark for many. Fox contributor Juan Williams expressed his disappointment on the air.
"I must say, I thought this was going to be so much more," Williams said. "I thought this was going to be a smoking gun... But it really didn't come to much."
Despite much of the opposition against Obama in recent weeks, many Democrats have been rallying behind the president. Illinois Rep. Daniel Lipinski explained why more Democrats were rallying behind Obama.
"The message that the president is running on is a message that most Democrats can get on board with now," Lipinski said, according to a New York Daily News report. "The people need a champion now, and that's more and more the president."
