Letters to the Editor
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What Winston said
I think Obama has to show his church-going credentials in the Bible belt to help people remember he is not a Muslim. Folks like Brian Williams aren't exactly helping matters (I was so irritated at him at the Nevada debates! Jon Stewart parodied it succinctly, as usual).
Obama's sporadic Christian-ating seems (slightly) less disingenuous than the photos of Bill Clinton darkening a church door, Bible in hand, in the midst of the Lewinski scandal. (Though, to be fair, for all I know, Bill Clinton attended church every weekly, and he press only felt like photographing him *that*( Sunday, to make him seem hypocritical. Would our press do such a thing?)
Even so, I am far less alarmed by Obama's brand of Christianity than I am with Huckabee's, who interprets the Constitution by asking What-Would-Jesus-Write? And Huckabee truly panders to the Evangelicals, and their ugliest platform planks: "defending" marriage against "the gays", overturning Roe v Wade, and killing anyone who looks "furrin" and therefore possibly trerrorist-y.