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Even during a special two-hour tribute to him at his church, Trinity UCC. The Chicago Tribune has the story. Can he stay quiet for seven more months?

As Barack Obama ramps up Catholic outreach in advance of the Pennsvylania primary this month, former Indiana Congressman Tim Roemer will be one of his key surrogates for Catholic audiences. God-o-Meter caught up with Roemer recently by phone. As a member of the 9/11 Committee, it’s no surprise that you’re helping Obama on national security…

For all his talk about breaking through the partisan gridlock and finding common ground on divisive issues, Obama has hewed to a strictly pro-choice line as a candidate and a public official, as Michael Gerson writes today. For all Obama’s speechifying about the need to seriously consider the views of the pro-life community and the…

TPM Election Central reports that Hillary Clinton’s chief delegate hunter, Harold Ickes, says the Obama/Wright controversy is a top issue among the party’s very powerful super-delegates. Is he being self-serving? Maybe. Is he correct to warn Democrats that the GOP and its allies will turn all that disturbing Wright footage into swiftboat-style attack ads as…

A couple days after reversing his vow to stay home on Election Day to protest John McCain’s candidacy, Dobson made it clear that he’s not exactly warmed to the Arizona senator. Here’s what he told The Wall Street Journal: I have seen no evidence that Sen. McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing…

The Washington Times reports that Barack Obama’s church was founded on a… 1960s book that espouses “the destruction of the white enemy.” Trinity United Church of Christ’s Web site says its teachings are based on the black liberation theology of James H. Cone and his 1969 book “Black Theology and Black Power.” “What we need…

Recent polls show that Barack Obama suffered little or no lasting damage from the Rev. Wright controversy. Bloomberg says on the ground interviews with white Indiana voters tell a different story: Interviews with dozens of Democrats in this overwhelmingly white region — where voters will go to the polls in the May 6 primary —…

John McCain kicked off his Service to America tour yesterday in Mississippi, with an autobiographical speech that he’ll no doubt revisit in coming days as he tries to reintroduce himself to American voters. Considering his overly documented problems with the GOP’s evangelical base, God-o-Meter was surprised that he omitted any discussion of his personal faith.…

First Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s public appearances were cancelled. Now his church’s web site has been cleaned up. Kind of Soviet, right? Given Wright’s love of the spotlight, God-o-Meter has a hard time believing that this attempted clean up is a result of him and his church acting on their own. How big a role, if…

The Dallas Morning News reports on John McCain’s quiet campaign too woo Catholic voters, noting that that the task may be easier for the Arizona senator than mobilizing conservative evangelicals. For all the attention lavished on evangelicals’ role in George W. Bush’s reelection, Catholic support was also crucial to the effort, with Bush beating the…
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