Do Clinton Fans Know Who Burns Strider Is Within The Campaign?

[DrFunkenstein]

Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares to launch her 2008 presidential campaign.

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Strider’s move to Clinton’s camp suggests that Democrats will woo so-called faith voters in the 2008 election. The plan is buoyed by the Democrats’ success in winning over religious voters in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in the midterm elections.

Ann Lewis, Clinton’s spokeswoman said that her boss has talked to potential advisors about joining a possible presidential campaign, but declined to reveal names.

Lewis noted that Clinton has long discussed her religious faith, pointing to writings on the subject in her two books: “It Takes a Village,” and “Living History.”

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. Reporters anticipating Clinton’s ’08 presidential run wrongly discount her expressions of faith as cynical political maneuverings, the observers add.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-hires-faith-guru-2006-12-13.html

To me, this seems fairly uncontroversial. It is called outreach. But fans of the Senator seem to believe that only Obama is speaking directly to religious voters. I just think that he is doing it best.

In any case, here is another tidbit about Clinton's faith to chew on:

As Clinton methodically consolidates her hold on the Democratic presidential nomination, Republicans are facing, in the words of her spiritual biographer Paul Kengor, "the most religious Democrat since Jimmy Carter."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/25/AR2007092501754.html

[bunnies]

1. I'd guess not.

I posted this Hill article in another thread. And got ignored. Go figure.

[cuke]

2. Does Strider think we MUST embrace Jesus

Has Hillary hired any homophobes to headline a gospel tour for her campaign? Has she ever said anything about the decision to abort being a "prayerful" one?

[ellacott]

4. I was waiting for that to show up. n/t

[murielm99]

3. I read both of those books

quite awhile ago. Her faith is just part of the fabric of the books, and of her life. It is not emphasized or deemphasized.

Her experiences and her experience are also recounted in those two books. She has a first-rate education. She has worked on some important projects and jobs. She has been all over the world. She has met, as an equal, world leaders and the wives of world leaders everywhere. Some of her stories about other spouses show how important that person can be to a leader. She was a great first lady. Bill would make a great first laddie.

I am still not a Clinton supporter. But I can see her many good qualities, just as I can see the positives in Obama, Biden, Dodd, Edwards, etc.