[lbo-talk] Barack Obama

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun Nov 7 09:35:39 PST 2004


Well, you do have to wonder if people as smart and well-educated as Clinton, Gore, Obama et al. are actually all Christians.

-- Luke

----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Barack Obama


>
> If you find that sort of statement unsettling, you
> Yhave to get out and meet people. Barak Obama is an
> extremely liberal U of C constitutional law professor,
> not a no-brow Texas fundamentalist. Like most of this
> country, excluding people on this list, and especially
> like most black people, he's also a believing
> Christian. That doesn't mean that he's gonna go out
> and smite the infidel in the name of the Lord. My
> black friends say things to me like, Have a blessed
> day, and they mean it, like Jesus should bless me. And
> they know I'm a commie Jewish atheist. People here
> have to learn to get out some. Find a Christian and
> have her or him invite you to church services, it
> would not hurt. Listen to people talk about their
> faith (without arguing).
>
> jks
>
> --- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
>
> > Michael Perelman wrote:
> >
> > > m I the only one who was not particularly
> > impressed by him? He seemed nice. He had
> > > a nice story. He had nice credentials. And maybe
> > he was good in Illinois politics?
> > > I don't know.
> > >
> >
> > i must admit that his "we worship an awesome god"
> > bit scared me a bit...
> >
> > --ravi
> >
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