rosary.jpgResponding to a press release this morning by the conservative Catholic League speculating that the Obama campaign had disbanded its Catholic advisory board, an Obama aide tells God-o-Meter: “The Obama Catholic Advisory Council is thriving, and actively reaching out to Catholics for Barack Obama.”
Obama National Catholic Advisory Committee member Sharon Daly emailed God-o-Meter to affirm the board’s ongoing activities:

Just in the last week, I’ve participated in two more of Senator Obama’s National Catholic Advisory Council conference calls: a weekly call on policy and another weekly strategy session. In addition, all of us are continuing our outreach to fellow Catholic Obama supporters across the country.
If the Campaign disbanded our group of hard working council members, they forgot to tell us.

For more on how Obama’s responses to the Catholic League differ sharply from John Kerry’s in 2004, read this.


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