Charles Krauthammer has a great
piece running today at NRO (and I presume also the WaPo, though I trawled past NRO first this morning, so can't be sure).
In it, he points out that one's religious devotion shouldn't confer special status where politics is concerned-- even though several candidates (and not just Republicans, I might add) are trying it on. He says he "hasn't exactly invented hot water" with this argument, but I have to say, his point feels rather novel and noteworthy, particularly in the context of this campaign.
Krauthammer is right to point out Obama's playing of the religion card (
I've noted his links with the likes of Rick Warren, which he's all too keen to exploit, before). But what's noteworthy is that other Democrats, in the context of this campaign, have been willing to make religion an issue, too. Take for example Hillary, who
as the Economist has noted evidently considered becoming a Methodist minister-- something she's been happy enough to raise in the context of her campaign, presumably in an effort to counter Obama's own straight religious (as opposed to more issues-based) appeal to certain voters.
Then, of course, we have Huckabee and Romney-- the dynamic duo duking it out over immigration, taxes and yes, it would now appear, theology, with Huckabee making comments about Mormons believing that Jesus and Lucifer and brothers (and subsequently apologizing) and Romney getting offended about his faith being put front and center when just a week ago, he was claiming you can't have freedom without religion, and doing something quite similar (though without regard to a specific doctrine).
To me, all of it feels a ...
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