Obama and Jesus

For 8 years, President George W. Bush was mercilessly mocked by Leftists about his faith.

Some examples:

Madeleine Albright
More Madeleine Albright
Chris Matthews

As it turns out, Obama talks about Jesus more than Bush did.

From Politico:

More than four months into the Obama presidency, a picture is emerging of a chief executive who is comfortable with public displays of his religion — although he has also paid tribute to other faiths and those he called “nonbelievers” during his inaugural address.

Obama’s invocation of the Christian Messiah is more overt than Americans heard in the public rhetoric of Bush in his time in the White House — even though Bush’s victories were powered in part by evangelical voters.

“I don’t recall a single example of Bush as president ever saying, ‘Jesus’ or ‘Christ,’” said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Christian group Family Research Council. “This is different.”

To Perkins, Obama’s overtly Christian rhetoric is a welcome development from an administration that he largely disagrees with on the issues, though Perkins sees a political motive behind it, as well.

“I applaud that. It gives people a sense of comfort,” Perkins said. “But I think it’s a veneer, a facade that covers over a lot of policies that are anti-Christian.” That includes, in his view, Obama’s stance in favor of abortion rights.

The Rev. Barry Lynn, the executive director of the group Americans United for Separation of Church and State, doesn’t like the trend with Obama: “I don’t need to hear politicians tell me how religious they are,” Lynn said. “Obama in a very overt way does what Bush tended to do in a more covert way.”

I wonder if Madeleine Albright is troubled by Obama's religious talk.

I'm sure Chris Matthews loves it, by virtue of the fact that he worships anything and everything that is Obama.

Sure, Obama is exploiting faith for his political purposes. Nonetheless, the Left really should get on Obama's case about Jesus. Failure to do so is hypocritical.

I think Leftists would rather be hypocrites than critics of Obama.


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On a related note: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the man who brought Obama to Jesus, speaks out.

Wright hasn't talked to Obama since he took office.

Asked if he had spoken to the President, Wright said: "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...

"They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do."

I find it stunning that Obama spent 20 years with Wright as his spiritual leader.

Stunning.