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Sunday, August 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama's purpose-driven gamble

The Democrat wanted to show he could compete for evangelical votes, too. Will he succeed?

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  • Sunday, August 17, 2008 07:50 AM

    @Clapham

    You said: “Evangelicals are not fooled by Obama. We see his record, the fact that he sat under the teaching of a heretical (and racist) preacher for 20 years, and we see where his priorities lie.”

    You are so right to see through Obama. You obviously see that he is not an ignorant rube that thinks the earth is only 6000 years old and that the Bible is the literal word of god. You clearly see that he doesn’t buy into that puerile rubbish about the rapture, the tribulation and that we (the US) have to protect Israel so that God can destroy it on his own good time.

    Thanks for calling bullshit on Obama and painting him for the secularist that I know he really is.

    Unfortunately, Obama seems to loose sight of his secularist roots and spends way too much time pandering to the ignorant and deeply anti-intellectual evangelical community.

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