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Obama Just More of the Same
Jul. 1st, 2008 06:49 pmFor those of you in the left/liberal zone who think Obama is going to be a major improvement over Dubya, here's yet another reason you're wrong:
Obama courts conservatives with new faith program
Excerpt:
Taking a page from President Bush, Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service dollars to religious groups, risking protests in his own party with his latest aggressive reach for voters who usually vote Republican.
Obama contended he is merely stating long-held positions — surprising to some, he said, after a primary campaign in which he was "tagged as being on the left."
And it gets even better:
Obama showed he was comfortable using the kind of language that is familiar in evangelical churches and Bible studies by calling his faith "a personal commitment to Christ." He said that his time as a community organizer in decimated Chicago neighborhoods, supported in part by a Catholic group, brought him to a deeper faith and also convinced him that faith is useless without works.
"While I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn't be fulfilling God's will unless I went out and did the Lord's work," he declared.
Yeah. Can't wait to see how the anti-Bush left spins this one, after all their rants about Dubya trying to turn the nation into a theocracy. I'm expecting a huge wave of hypocritical waffling about what he "really meant".
Obama also chose a different emphasis for why religious charities are an important answer to solving poverty and other social problems: because they better know the people who are hurting, instead of Bush's argument that religion itself is a transforming power the government must not be afraid to harness.
Looks like the spin is already starting.
Of course, with all the other nonsense he's proposing to go along with it, looks like it's every bit as dead in the water as Bush's "Faith-Based Initiative".
So, I guess this should be said to the Democrats as well as the Republicans... "Hey you idiots, stop fucking with my religion!"
Obama courts conservatives with new faith program
Excerpt:
Taking a page from President Bush, Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service dollars to religious groups, risking protests in his own party with his latest aggressive reach for voters who usually vote Republican.
Obama contended he is merely stating long-held positions — surprising to some, he said, after a primary campaign in which he was "tagged as being on the left."
And it gets even better:
Obama showed he was comfortable using the kind of language that is familiar in evangelical churches and Bible studies by calling his faith "a personal commitment to Christ." He said that his time as a community organizer in decimated Chicago neighborhoods, supported in part by a Catholic group, brought him to a deeper faith and also convinced him that faith is useless without works.
"While I could sit in church and pray all I want, I wouldn't be fulfilling God's will unless I went out and did the Lord's work," he declared.
Yeah. Can't wait to see how the anti-Bush left spins this one, after all their rants about Dubya trying to turn the nation into a theocracy. I'm expecting a huge wave of hypocritical waffling about what he "really meant".
Obama also chose a different emphasis for why religious charities are an important answer to solving poverty and other social problems: because they better know the people who are hurting, instead of Bush's argument that religion itself is a transforming power the government must not be afraid to harness.
Looks like the spin is already starting.
Of course, with all the other nonsense he's proposing to go along with it, looks like it's every bit as dead in the water as Bush's "Faith-Based Initiative".
So, I guess this should be said to the Democrats as well as the Republicans... "Hey you idiots, stop fucking with my religion!"
