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There are a lot of choice comments in this review. It summarizes the utter cynicism of the Obama Administration and its willingness to be deliberately divisive in order to secure short term political gain.

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Is there a way to fix the thread title? I attempted to italicize the book title within it and failed.

[tomkat]

Reclaiming Hope

We did that on 08 November 2106

[aquila48]

But he remains deeply sympathetic to Obama - means he learned nothing.

[Yogafist]

And so it begins. All the people who knew Obama’s motives, but kept their mouths shut while he was running roughshod over the country, now want to make money telling their stories. I hope his book fails.

[stylin19a]

The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Hope this is on Pres. Trump's chopping block.

[\/\/ayne]

DNC denied God three times, then Clinton crowed.

[jeffc]

He also notes that “many [campaign staffers] now acted as though he had never opposed same-sex marriage in the first place.

We're at war with EastAsia, we've always been at war with EastAsia....

[STJPII]

I always marvel at the ways of God. The Little Sisters of the Poor were the only ones willing to fight the Abortion mandate up to the Supreme Court.

[BenLurkin]

If he loves Obama “as a Christian” then he evidently hasn’t read the transcript of Obama’s interview with Kathleen Falsani

As for the assertion that Obama sought “civil discourse”. Ridiculous.

[Verginius Rufus]

Wear is just a useful idiot. Why wasn’t he suspicious when the administration offered him the job when he was just 21 years old? He was just window dressing.

[Stosh]

“He also notes that “many [campaign staffers] now acted as though he had never opposed same-sex marriage in the first place.”

He probably never did - it was just a question of when the political price for expressing his true feelings would be negligible.

[raybbr]

“Too often the White House would not seek to marginalize the most offensive voices but to prop them up. . . . One former aide to Obama summarized the 2012 campaign’s ‘basic message’ to voters was that ‘Mitt Romney hates you.’”

This true of every issue. Odumass let the most offensive voices have free rein on purpose.

[Steve_Seattle]

“If the president did believe in and support same-sex marriage in 2007 or even earlier, his repeated assertions that he did not were a direct rebuke to the type of politics he said was possible. To let stand the claim that he supported gay marriage all along is to choose political gain over the integrity of the president’s own words.”

I'm having a hard time deciphering that statement.

[Steve_Seattle]

Didn’t someone once find a document, circa 1996-1998, when Obama was a state senator, in which he expressed support for gay marriage?