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There’s an emerging consensus among political types that Barack Obama, in order to solve his white working class problem and to blunt criticism that, despite his national unification rhetoric, is actually a doctrinaire liberal, needs to adopt a traditionally conservative idea that emphasizes personal responsibility over government solutions. Beliefnet’s own Steve Waldman suggested as much…

Douglas Kmiec, the Catholic legal scholar and former counsel to Republican presidents, reports that he was recently denied communion for publicly supporting pro-choice candidate Barack Obama. It’s getting more common for the Catholic church to instruct pro-choice politicians to refrain from receiving the sacrament–it happened to John Kerry in 2004 and, more recently, to Kansas…

Marc Ambinder noted yesterday that the Republican Party greeted the California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage with near total silence (except for a statement from second-in-command House Republican Roy Blount that denounced the ruling.) Twenty four hours later, the silence continues. No statement from John McCain himself (his deputy communications director has weighed in)…

Yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling overturning the state’s gay marriage ban gave John McCain a big open to reach out to his party’s conservative Christian base, especially the Christian Right leaders who continue to be openly skeptical of his candidacy McCain could have announced he was reversing his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning gay…
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