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Steven Waldman

The media and the Obama campaign have been focusing on the hundreds of charges against Obama in Obama Nation. But in terms of evangelicals one vote is doing Obama the most harm: his position on the “born alive” legislation protecting babies accidentally born during an abortion. I ‘ve gotten a no comment from the Obama…

John McCain said yesterday that Ronald Reagan had won the cold war “without firing a shot.” Whatever happened to: The Korean War The Vietnam War The Contras & Nicaragua The Mayaguez The Pueblo (Did I forget any?) I was under the impression that presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford thought that the military…

McCain tells the cross in the sand story in his 1999 memoir, Faith of My Fathers: “We both stood wordlessly looking at the cross until, after a minute or two, he rubbed it out and walked away. I saw my good Samaritan often after the Christmas when we venerated the cross together.” In his campaign…

I thought Obama was very good. He spoke about his faith in a humble, convincing, personal way. He showed himselt to be neither Muslim nor a black liberation theologist (as James Dobson put it). His abortion answer was okay. His answers about welfare reform (admitting he was wrong), Iraq (casting it as an anguished decision)…

OBAMA 8:10 — I’m driving up to New Hampshire to pick up my son from sleepaway camp. I’m listening to the debate on the radio and will attempt to live blog. First, observation: for those who were worried that Rick Warren was going to be a goofball theocrat asking inappropriate faith questions only: Warren’s quesitons…

I’m glad to see that the media is catching up on the news, first described on WSJ.com, that the co-authors of the Left Behind series had said Barack Obama isn’t the anti-Christ. Who better to give the official Not The Anti-Christ Seal of Approval than the Left Behind authors? But y’all are missing another interesting…

It’s so interesting to see how folks from the different parallel universes perceive the same ink blot. Today I was interviewed by CNN (and a bunch of other places) about the McCain ad implying that Obama has a Messianic complex, and how that might feed the internet rumors that Obama is, er, the anti-Christ. The…

This new ad from Matthew 25, a progressive religious advocacy group, features Brian McLaren, a popular Christian author, and KirbyJon Caldwell — George W. Bush’s pastor. It may seem schlocky but the idea that Obama appears to be a good family man does matter, and may help combat charges that he’s a latter day Stokely…

“It absolutely floored me. It would doom him in Ohio.” —Phil Burress, head of the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values.

Not surprisingly, the draft Democratic platform includes repeal of the don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy for gays in the military. What was striking was where in the platform the Democrats put this declaration. The 2004 Democratic platform called for “equal treatment of servicemen”…in a section on civil rights. The 2008 platform point-blank calls for the repeal of “don’t-ask-don’t-tell”…in…
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