Posted on 12/27/2006 8:46:42 AM PST by presidio9
An “evangelical consultant” has been hired by Hillary Clinton to help attract Christian conservatives in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
More than one-quarter of the USA's voters identify themselves as evangelical, a voter bloc that has long been courted by Republicans.
In addition, a similar political operative has successfully aided Democratic candidates in several states in the midterm elections.
Clinton’s new hire is Burns Strider, an evangelical Christian who directs religious outreach for House Democrats and is the lead staffer for the Democrats’ Faith Working Group, headed by incoming Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina.
Incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the group last year when Democratic strategists observed that the party lost ground in the previous election in part because candidates failed to reach centrist and conservative voters in rural areas, who tend to be churchgoers concerned with moral issues, according to the Washington, D.C.-based publication The Hill.
Strider was an aide to Pelosi when the group was formed and joined Clyburn’s staff as policy director of the Democratic Caucus earlier this year, the paper reported.
"Observers of Clinton’s expressions of faith say religion has always been important to her, that she attended prayer group meetings while first lady, and that she joined a Senate prayer group shortly after winning election in 2000,” The Hill reports.
"Reporters anticipating Clinton’s ’08 presidential run wrongly discount her expressions of faith as cynical political maneuvering," the observers add.
Clinton is not the only potential Democratic candidate for the White House to launch efforts to appeal to religious voters.
Shouldn't this thread have a barf alert???? Imagine this thing being christian????? after all she's done????? Woe is she who burns in hell!!!!!
I wish I could find the threads, but the media was in a lather about a month or so ago about the fact that she is conspiciously wearing a cross around her neck these days.
I'm sure the cross around her neck is for vampires not to finish sucking the blood out of her like she does to other people....not because of any religious sect.....
I believe this is a good example of what Rush used to describe as the Clintonian tactic called; "how can we fool them today".
Next thing you know, she says she talks to angels. They call her all by her name.
LOLOL.....like how she got her name?????? LOLOL....what a phoney POS she is.....
ping
It's not brains E3, it's knackers they lack, as our friend Ms. Thatcher would say.
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NEVER FORGET
DIANE 'HILLARY' RODHAM was on the side of GOD-less terrorist Communism, against us Freedom-fighters, during the Vietnam War.
Nothing has changed since.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War 1965-66
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
NEVER FORGET
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This is NOT a good thing at all! There was a time when I would have that any evangelical Christian would N-E-V-E-R vote for a Clinton; no more! Once they were pretty saavy; as a voting block. But after this last election cycle, I just cannot understand the motivating factors any more in the way MOST people vote!
Nancee
A bible in her hand and what comes out of her mouth?? Kill the babies!! It's your right and we'll even fund you via the Planned Parenthood Plan.
Major hurl alert.
"Clinton Hires Evangelical Consultant for Presidential Campaign"
And they will listen to her and vote for her.
Hey Burns, you just sold your soul to the Devil.
WHAT CAN WE SAY TO FOOL THEM TODAY.
So .. what's changed from the former Clinton presidency. When Bubba lost his first election to be atty genl in AR, it was because of rumors of infidelity. To overcome that little issue, the Clintons shuffled down the street to the biggest church in Little Rock - which just happened to televise their service every Sunday. Bubba joined the choir - and there he was every Sunday morning looking like an innocent lamb in his choir robe.
You have to be cold, calculated and a deceiver to pull off a stunt like that. Does anybody have any idea who planned such a thing? ...... I have only one guess: Hillary.
We don't need a deceiver for President!!!!
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