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• Monday, January 21, 2008 02:01 PM

  "distinction without a difference"?

  Um... last I checked, every major candidate in the race -- Democrat, Republican -- has continued to invoke God and the Christian faith in his or her respective campaigns. Perhaps not in Huckabee's fervent evangelical manner, but they've all - at the minimum - given lip service to their faith in God. The only reason Obama's campaign strategy in South Carolina poses any kind of difference is because of the smear campaign about his supposed Muslim roots. Why not pay more attention to debunking the shady lies that circulate about him and, for that matter, all the other candidates instead of focusing on what, to my mind, has already become a given in major American elections? We all know that no Democrat can move into the White House without at least saying he is fully Christian. Why not attend to *that* problem? Why not write material that seeks to inveigh against the pressures that produce the pandering to Christianity during the campaign season?

  Point is, be realistic. Did you really expect Obama *not* to play up his Christianity in the Bible Belt area? Or any other candidate not to do the same? That's not news. What *might* be news: a solid cogent analysis of a segment of the American population that persistently refuses to abide by the creed to separate church and state. Why do they believe what they believe and what makes them so powerful that candidates have to bend over backwards to prove themselves worthy?

  Do all of that and I might think the post would eventually be worthwhile. Until then, I have to ask: how is your post substantive, *new* news?

  —siberia9 Read siberia9's other letters
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