Snopes weighs in: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/weddingring.asp
They're skeptical. If the high-res pictures are accurate (which seems more likely), then this is totally bogus. -- Ernie P. On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > NEW YORK : “ As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack Obama's > practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his > colleagues. > > Now, newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring > Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same > ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couple's wedding ceremony in > 1992. > > Moreover, according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama > has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the > Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: "There is no God except Allah." > > -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
