Reply #146: To me this is filled with religious crap and pandering to the right

[trixie]

You have even convinced me more that Obama is not on the right track. Let's look here (snip from your post)

More fundamentally, the discomfort of some progressives with any hint of religion has often prevented us from effectively addressing issues in moral terms. Some of the problem here is rhetorical – if we scrub language of all religious content, we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice. Imagine Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address without reference to “the judgments of the Lord,” or King’s I Have a Dream speech without reference to “all of God’s children.” Their summoning of a higher truth helped inspire what had seemed impossible and move the nation to embrace a common destiny.

Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.

He is saying that the religious people hold all the cards and we must pander to them or all is lost. WRONG! He confuses morality with religion. WRONG! He discusses MLK when MLK was never elected and came to the table as a person of the cloth and was not disguised as a politician. Why do religious people feel that most people feel the same way they do? It is crazy! HE should recognize that a lot of people are turned off by his pandering and will not vote for him. If he wants to do progressive work as a clergyman....so be it. Don't expect me or anyone I know to vote him into office.

Is he pro-choice or pro-life? Seems pro-life but you can correct me.