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The Note: Obama Faith Mission Caught In Old Politics
July 01, 2008 8:43 AM
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports in Tuesday's Note: If you have faith that four flags (plus one flag pin) can solve all of Barack Obama’s patriotism problems . . .
You probably also believe that one phone call can solve all of Obama’s Clinton problems.
That the Clinton campaign’s infighting would have ended with the Clinton campaign.
That Obama’s policy migration is set to end any time now.
Surely you’re convinced that one denunciation will be enough to end the storm kicked up by one retired general (who isn’t backing down, and who, at the very least, shrank Obama’s short list by one).
You may even believe that the best way to tag someone a Swift-boater is with a member of the original cast (takes one to know one, perhaps, but why muddle the message?).
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
And that Obama’s latest message -- on faith as policy -- will break through with Clark-like clarity.
An Obama zag -- one that zings: “Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and -- in a move sure to cause controversy -- support their ability to hire and fire based on faith,” the AP’s Jennifer Loven reports.
With Obama set to talk about faith in Ohio, more to set that agenda: “Between now and November, the Obama forces are planning as many as 1,000 house parties and dozens of Christian rock concerts, gatherings of religious leaders, campus visits and telephone conference calls to bring together voters of all ages motivated by their faith to engage in politics,” John M. Broder reports in The New York Times. “It is the most intensive effort yet by a Democratic candidate to reach out to self-identified evangelical or born-again Christians and to try to pry them away from their historical attachment to the Republican Party.”
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' John Santucci and Alexa Ainsworth contributed to this report.
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McCain's campaign is run by oil lobbyists it's funded by oil companies his policies are straight out of Big Oil's playbook and he won't solve our energy crisis.
Posted by: Big1 | Jul 1, 2008 12:28:45 PM
Senator Obama flip-flops on a different subject nearly every day. No wonder he does not want to debate Senator McCain under a fair set of circumstances. He really does not know what his policies are. They change so often, he is confused from week to week.
Don't vote for this far left corrupt man from Chicago.
Posted by: Mary | Jul 1, 2008 12:38:58 PM
RICH (and wanna be rich)Liberals who think they know everything, who think they know what's best for everyone, READS and GETS OFF on the Huffington Post---Look at the leader of that Site....!!
Posted by: carpenter.nyc | Jul 1, 2008 12:49:14 PM
Mary:
Can you imagine Obama in a debate NOW???
arugh uh eh uh uh uh uh come on now---who's been uh uh messing with my mouth?
Every Issue that comes up to Obama Now ---He is dead CENTER...Guess the CHANGE is to NOT HAVE A DEFINATE ANSWER ON ANYTHING.... unless they make you donate or vote for him.
The Troops will not come Home on Obama's watch and When Obama comes back from Europe---(as europe runs on Nuclear power) Obama will proclaim---
UH I saw it...Nuclear Power isn't so bad..
Posted by: carpenter.nyc | Jul 1, 2008 12:54:45 PM
If I take my right index finger and put it in my mouth and then hold it over my head, who do you immediately think of? Be honest now.
Posted by: Robert in Cleveland | Jul 1, 2008 12:59:55 PM
So many people here are "preaching to the choir". It's like they are trying to convince themselves of what they beleive in.
Posted by: Wondering | Jul 1, 2008 1:00:37 PM
Is it true that Obama failed to register for the draft despite the fact that the law required him to do so?
Posted by: Just Curious | Jul 1, 2008 1:03:00 PM
Hey S--gotcha didn't I!
Posted by: Robert in Cleveland | Jul 1, 2008 1:03:19 PM
Just Curious
After the draft was ended in the early 70s, there was no registration for the draft. Period. The registration was revived in 1980, without reviving the draft, to show that we were prepared to revive the draft if we had to. However, the registration did not apply to those who were already past a certain age. Roughly, men who are now aged about 45-55 never were required to register for the draft and would not have had a place to do so if they had wanted to for good measure.
Posted by: zz | Jul 1, 2008 1:14:47 PM
obama sticks to his principles like he sticks to his church of 20 years.....oh, wait....
Posted by: chris | Jul 1, 2008 1:20:05 PM
Has anyone heard anything about a debate between these two? I thought it was going to be anytime, anyplace, or at town halls. I've not heard one word about one. That is what we need to make our final decisions.
Anything?
Posted by: Iowan | Jul 1, 2008 2:12:37 PM
It is the most intensive effort yet by a Democratic candidate to reach out to self-identified evangelical or born-again Christians and to try to pry them away from their historical attachment to the Republican Party.”
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Well good luck with that!
Too bad Gumby can't even get the important issues resolved. I guess he has gone to praying for hope and change.
May as well let the kooks back in the WH, the last bunch got laughed to the basement, Gumby prays well in basements.
Posted by: HP Boston | Jul 1, 2008 2:19:33 PM
Another master piece from Obama today.His speeches are invigorating and inspiring. How I wish i could say the same for Mccain and he answered everyones questions from NAFTA to Healthcare to FISA. If he continues this way,he is going to win in a landslide.
Posted by: vuzous | Jul 1, 2008 2:29:55 PM
Obama can say that the USA is NOT a Christian Nation, but then he panders to the evangelicals and endorses the faith-based programs! Where is the outrage by the media. If Mike Huckabee would endorse this, they will say that he is not for all American and is just a religious nut job. The media has a double-standard and I am sick of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: anne | Jul 1, 2008 3:20:54 PM
only Senator Clinton is capable of being the best President that our children, our troops and our country so desperately needs right now
Posted by: chris | Jul 1, 2008 5:54:30 PM
I didn't like it under Bush and I don't like it for Obama. Will he give money to people like Rev. Wright and Pfleiger?
Posted by: FL voter | Jul 1, 2008 9:33:51 PM
He will expand Bush's program.
Now, he wants to get Republicans' votes.
Can he say again McCain is the 3rd Bush??
Posted by: catleya | Jul 2, 2008 12:36:41 AM
I guess Obama figures that he has the Left in his back pocket, so why continue to stand up for our most important principle (the seperation of church and state) since progressives have no one else better for whom to vote.
Like a chameleon, he seems to be morphing into what he perceives the crowd wants him to be. He was a constitutional lawyer, and often quotes Jefferson, but then is willing to trash the First Amendment and continue Bush's constitutional perversion of feeding our taxes to the insatiable piranha of theocrats. And, even as he denounces the use of patriotism quotients as qualifiers for president, he makes a mockery of his previous position (which had my respect) caves-in, and flaunts a sparkling new flag pin for all to see. Even McCain, who considers himself more heroic than Washington himself, didn't bother to wear one today. This would be laughable if it weren't so pathetic...
I was an enthusiastic Obama supporter, but am seriously thinking of staying home on election day!
Posted by: Comtek | Jul 2, 2008 3:27:07 AM
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