The senator's political resumé mirrors [Pierre Elliott Trudeau]'s scant three-year stint in federal politics before running for the nation's top job, with both candidates portraying this lack of experience as an asset in a political world stifled by backroom deals and insider back rubs. Trudeau campaigned in the 1968 federal election with the theme, "One Canada, One People." He was championing further unification of English and French-speaking Canada. During the primaries, [Obama] struggled for the votes of white working-class Americans, watching as rival Hillary Clinton, the wife of a former president with millions of dollars in assets, trumped him state after state in that voter category. Some of those ballots may have been cast on racial grounds, but remember the "Clinton cry" that m...
... have become bitter and "cling to guns or religion.". Not the wisest comment to make if you're courti...
In a 90-minute showdown ahead of the Democratic primary next week in Pennsylvania, Clinton charged [Barack Obama]'s relationships with a controversial black pastor and a former leftist radical "raise questions" about his judgment that will weaken him in the general election if he wins the Democratic nomination. Clinton has cast Obama as an out-of-touch "elitist" for saying last week that small-town Americans made "bitter" by hard economic times now "cling to guns and religion" and anti-immigrant sentiments for comfort. The questions about Obama's character -- including one inquiry about why he didn't wear an American flag lapel pin -- left Obama frustrated. He said he shouldn't be held responsible for the views of others, including [Jeremiah Wright] or [Bill Ayers].
Although both the media and the comedians overwhelmingly welcomed [Barack Obama]'s victory, they were left a little nonplussed by it -- who will they kick around for the next four years? W., or Dubya as he was derisively referred to by many East Coast columnists, could do nothing right. His successor, on the other hand, can do nothing wrong. Barack Obama is perfect in every way, if one can judge by media reports preceding and following his election. You can tell jokes about God, or at least about the belief in God. I can tell you one. God was wanting a vacation but couldn't decide where to go. The archangel Michael suggested Mars. "Too cold," said God. What about Venus? "Too hot," said God. Well, how about Earth, Michael asked? "Oh no," said God. "I went on holiday there about 2,000 yea...
... event underlying the Christian religion; you might, conceivably, be able to make a joke ab...
Roman Catholics invite Anglicans to come on over. In October the Vatican issued an unprecedented invitation to disaffected Anglicans, including married priests, to join the Roman Catholic Church and to keep their own liturgy. Members of both churches are trying to understand the implications: What would it mean for Catholics if married Anglican priests are allowed to serve, but Catholic priests must be celibate? And will the offer undo decades of Catholic-Anglican relations by encouraging schism in the Anglican Church? The years ahead will be interesting for Catholics and Anglicans alike. Homosexuality and religion. Homosexuality was in the news in summer when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to permit non-celibate gays and lesbians to become clergy. In November, E...
...President Barack Obama's declaration in Cairo that the U.S. is not at war...
...Ferguson's strident opposition to the Obama budget and the Federal Reserve's quantitative easi... most perceptive observers of the role of religion in foreign policy, and his essay studies the impac...
..., hardly more than two months after Barack Obama had been inaugurated as president of the United St... voters don't seem to care to what religion Mr. Obama subscribes, which is as it should be in ...
Public opinion polls and a recent comprehensive survey in Maclean's magazine paint a vivid picture of two quite distinct societies. Many Americans really are gun-toting, church-going folks who are wary of science and opposed to new ideas like gay or common-law marriage.
... have had colourful candidates like Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mike...forum on religion and values where Obama and McCain individually dis...
Freedom of religion ensures everyone can believe what they will . WA... the pulpit -- much as the "Muslim" Barack Obama would be condemned by many in 2008 -- as "a manife...
... have the same right to freedom of religion as everyone else in America. The president's state...
[Barack Obama] can hardly claim, however, to be ignorant of the fact that [Jeremiah Wright] boasted that his church is "unashamedly black" -- no whites allowed -- but his campaign platform of "Change" still has no plank that would change the racist attitude that the church proudly conveys. Oddly, this has caused considerably less fuss than it might have if [Hillary Clinton]'s church trumpeted that it was "unashamedly white. One of Wright's friends and mentors is Louis Farrakhan, the white-hating, Jew-baiting black demagogue. Farrakhan believes that Jews are "satanic," that they are "bloodsuckers" who "practise gutter religion". Wright honoured this man with an award for being someone who "truly epitomized greatness." In 1984, a year before Libyan-backed terrorists blew an airliner out ...
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