Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

God-O-Meter

A handful of Christian Right activists have told God-o-Meter that Barack Obama will be much more difficult to demonize among religious conservatives than Barack Obama. You can smell that fear in an email briefing that Focus on the Family Action sent to supporters last night: If he emerges as the Democratic nominee, one of the…

Video here.

Clinton campaign communications director Howard Wolfson just said on a conference call that it’s up to James Carville if he wants to apologize for calling Bill Richardson “Judas,” but said that he would if he were Carville: You’ll have to ask James Carville if he wants to apologize or not… it’s not something that I…

Barack Obama’s church, Trinity UCC in Chicago, launched a new blog last week to defend itself in the firestorm over its longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It’s called “The Truth About Trinity United Church of Christ”

Rev. Wright may have retired, but Trinity’s UCC’s new pastor isn’t staying mum amid the Wright/Obama controversy, alleging for the second Sunday in a row that the church has been subject to a “crucifixion.” From the AP: The new pastor of Barack Obama’s Chicago church said during Easter Sunday services that recent national scrutiny of…

In a radio interview taped Friday for broadcast today, Barack Obama offered a new argument in response to criticisms that he didn’t denounce Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s most incendiary comments at the time they were spoken. Obama says in the interview (with Philadelphia’s Michael Smerconish, partial transcript from The Page) that he’d been confronting Wright on…

And plays down the effect the whole controversy will have come November, nothing that “this is March, this is not October.” (John Heilemann at New York magazine offers a contrary theory, noting that clips of Wright, Michelle Obama saying that this the first time she’s proud of America, and Obama sans-flag lapel pin will make…

Just because the Democrats have become a lot more open about citing the Bible doesn’t mean all the references are positive. Here’s James Carville, longtime advisor to the Clintons, reacting New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s Obama endorsement in the New York TImes: “An act of betrayal,” said James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and…

This isn’t the first time Douglas Kmiec–prominent legal scholar, former Catholic University dean, advisor to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, legal counsel to 2 Republican presidents–has made positive noises about Barack Obama. But Kmiec went so far as to formally endorse the Illinois senator yesterday in Slate: As a Republican, I strongly wish to preserve traditional…

More evidence that the Wright controversy is pulling down Barack Obama’s poll numbers: the Gallup daily tracking poll now shows Hillary ahead for the first time in a month: Obama’s campaign has been plagued by controversial remarks made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama delivered a major speech on race Tuesday to try…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners