Having participated in a Boston College forum on Catholicism and public policy (video here) and with a forthcoming book on his father’s stint as a lawyer at Nuremberg, God-o-Meter would think Chris Dodd had cornered the market on moral values. Instead, God-o-Meter finds itself asking: will Dodd ever publicly discuss is religious faith? At last weekend’s Democratic debate in Iowa (video here) Dodd parried a question on the power of faith with convoluted and noncommittal politospeak: “I would not want to try and second-guess the lord’s intentions… and to assume that part of his great plan includes some of these actions we see, for a variety of different reasons.” Huh?

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