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Forgive God-o-Meter if it’s the only one not to pick up on this earlier. According to New York Times columnist Bill Kristol (that still sounds weird, doesn’t it?) Michelle Obama has been saying publicly that Americans suffer from hole-in-the-soul disease: [A]s she had argued in the Wisconsin speech, America’s illness goes far beyond a flawed…

After reading this New Republic article, God-o-Meter is convinced that it’s not as big a stretch as it sounds. Here’s the gist: Obama is the candidate of the new–a “new generation,” a “new leadership,” a “new kind of politics,” to borrow phrases he has used. But, in emphasizing newness, Obama is actually voicing a very…

While Barack Obama was distancing himself from his pastor’s past support for Louis Farrakhan before a Jewish audience yesterday, Farrakhan himself was singing Obama’s praises. The AP reports: The 74-year-old Farrakhan, addressing an estimated crowd of 20,000 people at the annual Saviours’ Day celebration, never outrightly endorsed Obama but spent most of the nearly two-hour…

It wasn’t on his public campaign schedule, but Barack Obama powwowed yesterday with roughly 100 Jewish activists in Cleveland as part of his ongoing campaign to reassure Jews of his commitment to Israel (he’d formerly been more vocal about his sympathy for the plight of Palestinians), his disagreements with his longtime pastor (who has expressed…
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