Politics

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Life after the Press Club

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The former pastor of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama has slipped back into the news over the last couple of weeks for vastly divergent reasons. Last week the New York Post broke the story that the preacher had a sexual affair with an executive assistant at a Dallas church lead by one of Wright’s disciples. On the other hand, the Religion News Service is reporting that Wright is saying nice things about Obama in his sermons.


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Cheers for (candid) talk on religious left

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There are times when it seems as if the World Wide Web has always been around, like a public utility. But if you look at cyberspace in terms of journalism history, we are still very early in the transition to whatever the heckfire is going to happen next.


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Getting Catholic voters, mostly

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For months, I criticized the print press for not covering the Democratic presidential candidates’ outreach to religious Democrats in general and Catholic Democrats specifically. I didn’t get it. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had religious outreach directors. Yet until the Pennsylvania primary in April, reporters avoided writing about their efforts.


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Obama courts the faithful

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With the mainstream media’s obsession with Gov. Sarah Palin, they haven’t really had as much time to look at the other candidates in the race. But I wanted to look at a few stories coming out of the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama. The first is a report from the Roanoke Times. The report describes a series of small Democratic rallies with religious themes:


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