Did someone say double-standard?
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Apparently it's not OK for a Republican Pastor of the Christian faith to campaign toward Christians (even when it's a paranoid delusion based on a bookshelf), but it's fine for a Democrat, blatantly. CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE
Kindly stop looking down your nose at republicans. You do it too.
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e194/GenGradPSU/Obama.jpg
Apparently it's not OK for a Republican Pastor of the Christian faith to campaign toward Christians (even when it's a paranoid delusion based on a bookshelf), but it's fine for a Democrat, blatantly. CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE
Kindly stop looking down your nose at republicans. You do it too.
If it wasn't absolutely required to hold political office in the US, I doubt he would wear his religion on his sleeves, like all the rest.
Still, it certainly is a double standard.
Religion should not be a thing to wear proudly in politics, it should be a private matter that should not directly impose on your politics, if it does the politician should reveal his faith, so the voters have all facts by which to vote.
Religion should not be a thing to wear proudly in politics, it should be a private matter that should not directly impose on your politics, if it does the politician should reveal his faith, so the voters have all facts by which to vote.
I think it's too bad that presidential candidates even have to give speeches about their religious belief. All I need to know is that when it comes to the job they are applying for that their religious views will not supersede or deny the needs of their country.
The media pounced on that ad, mostly out of admiration of the borderline subliminal message, and then in the process of admiring it figured they'd ramble on about the use of religion in campaigns.
They could've just talked about the ad where he had the text "Christian Leader" writ large under a picture of him, but it was too blunt to get their juices flowing.
As far as direct mail ads, they've all done it. I've seen similar from Hillary, McCain, and Guiliani, even.
Obama has extra incentive to tout it, since there's this rumor about him being a muslim going around...
But more so its a problem in the US when people require their presidents to be devoted to some religion. I doubt Bush's religion played in any part of him fucking up as much as he did.
But too many people require it to be a part of the presidential package, as if knowing that another man believes in the Flying Spaggeti Monster means he is of sound moral and ethical judgment.
I mean 2000 and 2004 Bush ran on the God ticket practically.