The Sarah Palin interview with James Dobson of Focus on the Family I’m listening to it now and will add more quotes as I transcribe but this one line really struck me as particularly fascinating. Palin and Dobson were talking about the birth of Trig. Dobson described her decision to carry Trig to term as…

One of the most striking parts of Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama was his accusation that Republicans have helped spread the rumor that Obama is Muslim, and turned the word into a smear. “I have heard senior members of my own Party drop the suggestion he’s Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists,”…

The new Pew poll has Obama making amazing gains among Catholics and Mainline Protestants. Most interesting, some of the biggest gains were among regular church goers: White Catholics who attend mass weekly favored McCain 52-36% a month ago. Now, it’s tied at 45%. White Mainline Protestants who go to church weekly favored McCain 53% to…

In talking about her faith, Palin does not sound like some intolerant religious crazy. She sounds quite mainstream. She asks God to bless America but also other countries.I’m disappointed that, when David Brody asked her to talk about her Pentecostal faith — to clear up misconceptions — she ducked that part of the question entirely.…

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