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Obama lifted by hand of God

When Barack Obama gets friendly with 20,000 evangelicals, it's called "reaching out." If I did it, it would be called pandering to religious fanatics. Why is that?

I think I know the reason. It's because no one would believe I'm serious. Obama, on the other hand, has more faith in his little finger than I have in my whole body. Let's call it 'religious credibility.'
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IN THE latest sign that the “God gap” between Republicans and Democrats is narrowing, one of America’s biggest evangelical churches will this week welcome Senator Barack Obama, the rising African-American star of the Democratic party who has become a leading contender for the 2008 presidential elections.

Obama will appear on Friday at the Saddleback church in Lake Forest, California, where at least 20,000 conservative Christians gather each week for services led by Pastor Rick Warren, the evangelical author of the bestselling inspirational book The Purpose Driven Life.

At first glance Warren and Obama appear the unlikeliest of allies — the conservative white preacher and the liberal black Democrat — yet aides to both confirmed last week that they have formed an intriguing friendship that may prove a key element in the next presidential campaign.

Fresh from their midterm election triumph, the Democrats have been energised by evidence that religious voters have deserted the Republican party in droves.

“I think the big story of 2006 is the support for Democrats by religious moderates,” said Professor David Domke of the University of Washington. “The [Republican] party is not the only game in town for Christian voters.”
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  • November 28, 2006
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