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Top Democrats open up on faith [Rats get religion alert]
The Washington Times ^ | June 5, 2007 | Christina Bellantoni

Posted on 06/05/2007 5:52:19 AM PDT by seanmerc

Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards all got personal last night during a forum focused on something much less commonly mentioned on the campaign trail: their religious faith. During a wide-ranging discussion, each Democrat took the stage to discuss their views on religion, values and poverty. But the three front-runners for their party's 2008 nomination also fielded questions much more personal in nature about their sins and prayer habits. Mrs. Clinton, a senator from New York, told the audience of 1,300 that her faith helped her survive her husband's infidelity when he was in the White House. "I'm not sure I would have gotten through it without my faith," the former first lady said. "I am very grateful that I had a grounding in faith that gave me the courage and the strength to do what I thought was right regardless of what the world thought," she said, to sustained applause. "And that's all one can expect or hope for." She added that her "extended faith family" acted as "prayer warriors for me." When asked his biggest sin, Mr. Edwards, a former senator from North Carolina, said there were too many to name. "If I have a day where I haven't sinned multiple times, I would be amazed," he said. The 2004 Democratic vice-presidential nominee also said God helped him in dark times, saying, "My faith came roaring back" when his family faced crisis and still "gives me strength to keep going." He needed his faith when he lost his son and during his wife's ongoing battle against cancer. Elizabeth Edwards received loud applause as she was seated before the forum. Mr. Obama, a senator from Illinois, gave the most political answers of the trio...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; abughraib; antiamericanism; christianleft; lyingliars; marxism; religiousleft; socialism; unamerican
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I'd like to think they're sincere, but with this bunch it's not likely. The good thing for all of us is that nobody--not even the Democrats--is beyond our Lord's reach.
1 posted on 06/05/2007 5:52:21 AM PDT by seanmerc
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Essay question for each Dem — Write a paragraph on the theme: “God says it’s OK to abort babies because ...”


2 posted on 06/05/2007 5:58:27 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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Obama clarified his remarks - we're all terrorists:

He added there is evil in the world -- as seen in the September 11 terrorist attacks -- and said he sees it in the detention camp in Guantanamo and in the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

3 posted on 06/05/2007 6:00:21 AM PDT by DManA
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I didn’t read past the excerpt, but I wonder what, exactly, hillary’s faith is in?


4 posted on 06/05/2007 6:00:30 AM PDT by Hornet19 (Secure Border + Fined Employers - Welfare = Self-deportation.)
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what, exactly, hillary’s faith is in

Her own ability to know better than everyone else.

5 posted on 06/05/2007 6:01:27 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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i do not believe their statements about their so-called religious faith. these democrats have communism as their religion which has room for no other and which also commands that they lie to further the cause. (which they are doing very well, every waking moment.)


6 posted on 06/05/2007 6:05:59 AM PDT by ripley
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In other words we’re just like the terrorists.


7 posted on 06/05/2007 6:10:47 AM PDT by anoldafvet (Calculating the average global temp. is like the average telephone number; both are meaningless)
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Democrat faith is inversely proportional to the number of days before an election.


8 posted on 06/05/2007 6:18:02 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Nosotros no hablamos espaƱol.)
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Hell no they’re not sincere. Posers.


9 posted on 06/05/2007 6:21:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The MSM will fill a million bird cages with stories about flip-flopping republicans who pander for votes by taking popular positions just in time for elections. But we see the dems follow a cycle repeatedly of being pro-religion, pro-gun, pro-defense, anti-tax on election years and anti-religion, anti-gun, anti-defense, pro-tax every other waking moment and not a peep is heard from the 4th estate.


10 posted on 06/05/2007 6:25:50 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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This is like a Democratic comb-over to cover bald faced lies.


11 posted on 06/05/2007 6:31:19 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To them, The Bible is a campaign prop to grab every Sunday morning during election season.


12 posted on 06/05/2007 6:34:25 AM PDT by AU72
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May I be the first?

Seperation of church and state. Seperation of church and State!!!!

Oooops, wrong party.


13 posted on 06/05/2007 6:36:51 AM PDT by The South Texan (The Drive By Media is America's worst enemy and American people don't know it.)
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It has been said that your God is whoever you look to in time of trouble. In that case, these, and most other politicians look to Washington, D.C. as their deity.


14 posted on 06/05/2007 6:38:57 AM PDT by Re-electNobody
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-not even the Democrats--is beyond our Lord's reach.

There's no doubt God has extended His Hand - but, there is much doubt they took it. They drop His name in speech as if they KNOW Him; they, merely, know His name. If all the elected officials who claim faith in God were true, we wouldn't be the immoral country we are today.
15 posted on 06/05/2007 6:39:11 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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When people talk of their “faith” and they purport to be Christians, but don’t mention Jesus, Christ, savior, salvation or similar names and phrases, it comes off as fake, which, I suspect in these cases, it is.


16 posted on 06/05/2007 6:42:47 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: ClearCase_guy

And a paragraph for hillary on the subject: How my faith in God allowed me to decorate the WH Christmas with condoms.


17 posted on 06/05/2007 6:43:19 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: ripley

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

-Adolf Hitler-


18 posted on 06/05/2007 6:43:52 AM PDT by Spruce
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Kind of ironic....The GOP has no problem turning their back on the conservative christian voters and the dems are trying to court them.


19 posted on 06/05/2007 7:20:43 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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they would make uncle adolf and herr goebbles proud.


20 posted on 06/05/2007 7:35:08 AM PDT by ripley
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