Obama: Let The Vetting Begin?

I was drawn to the power of the African American religious tradition to spur social change. Out of necessity, the black church had to minister to the whole person. Out of necessity, the black church rarely had the luxury of separating individual salvation from collective salvation. It had to serve as the center of the community's political, economic, and social as well as spiritual life; it understood in an intimate way the biblical call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and challenge powers and principalities. In the history of these struggles, I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world.

BARACK OBAMA, Audacity of Hope

There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse—when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome—others will fill the vacuum. And those who do are likely to be those with the most insular views of faith, or who cynically use religion to justify partisan ends.

BARACK OBAMA, Audacity of Hope

America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before.

BARACK OBAMA, speech, Jun. 4, 2005

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Just another politician who will use his rhetoric as a means to an end ... or just a tool to place the United States in further peril by the Democratic Party U.S.A. insanity? Is he just his own Oreo^tm?

Senator o Bama needed to "hear" Wright's diatribes first hand in order to "know" their import? ... and the rest of the congregation of this obviously racist "church" clapped, smiled, danced ... can I have an "AMEN?"

Is the Democratic Party, U.S.A. forcing another Republican Administration due to their continued failure to offer a viable candidate in the last EIGHT years? Gore, Kerry, and ?