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GlennGreenwald: Continuing Update II: Hordes of Obama supporters?
I said from the beginning that rebutting the "Muslim" campaign was a part of this. But I don't see how anyone can read that flier - which is probably the single most overtly religious piece of political adverstisement I've ever seen -- and believe that an overt appeal to Christian voters based on Obama's Christianity isn't part of the motive.
I guess I'm not sure that those are really two different things in this case. I see the latter as dealing with the former. I suspect that if there were no Obama-is-a-Muslim campaign then we wouldn't have gotten this spread. Maybe that doesn't matter, though I tend to think that it does.
I mean, I take your point that one shouldn't try to have it both ways on Huckabee's vs Obama's (versus anyone else's) appeals to religion, condemning one and supporting the other; however, I don't see any hypocrisy on this issue from the Obama campaign, so I guess I can't get that exercised about it. Of course, I wasn't all that exercised about Huckabee's direct appeals to Christian voters either.
Peace.
(You know, Salon needs a better letter / commenting system with indented replies and all that sort of thing. This whole experience makes me long for USENET and such. Anyway.)