“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, speaking Saturday to the national meeting of the United Church of Christ, said some right-wing evangelical leaders have used religion to cause divisiveness. 'Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart,' he said.”
Ed Cognoski responds:I'm puzzled by Obama's remarks. He's running as a new kind of politician, but picking on evangelicals is old left politics. If he gets the nomination, he'll need religious voters of all persuasions, so why pick fights if he doesn't have to?
Maybe this is a sign that he's worried he won't get the nomination unless he starts exploiting some wedge issues that Clinton isn't going to want to touch (for the same reason given above). Maybe he's not a new kind of politician after all. Or maybe he's willing to speak the truth no matter what its impact on his chances. Now that would be a new kind of politician.
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