A House Divided

******** YOU MUST READ THIS *******

I can't believe what SENATOR KERRY has to say about SENATOR OBAMA'S MUSLIM BACKGROUND.

Watch this clip on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T71c2FXsbEw

[Interview on SouthCoastToday.com]

He say, "Senator Obama will help up bridge us the divide of religious extremism to may be even give the power to moderate Islam to be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion... because he is a black man. " He went on to say that countrie like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia... can lean from this.

Excuse me Senator Kerry there are no black men in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. There are only Muslims men.

What he meant was since Senator Obama has a muslim background and therefore will be able to convert radical Islam to moderate Islam. Is he trying to confirm the belief of many about Senator Obamas muslim background and the influence he will have on the muslim world? This is a stand Senator Obama consistently denied throughout his campaign.

I feel cheated now.

HILLARY CLINTON.....THE UNITER!

BARACK OBAMA........THE DIVIDER!

EVERYTHING ELSE IS NULL AND VOID.

This is just Democrats currently at war with each other. Each wants their candidate to win, so they say they will vote for the Republican out of spite. Maybe some will...most won't. So be it.
Democrats: keep in mind what four years of McCain (Bush, the third term) means for the country - probably turning the Supreme Court totally conservative (threatening Roe v. Wade and many other rulings), an endless war in Iraq and maybe others to follow, and and an indifferent attitude towards the looming recession. McCain is currently trying to separate himself from Bush - who wouldn't? - yet his policies are about 100% in line with Bush's.

Wonder how the house divided is going to stand if it is split again? There is an idea, that I have heard twice today...... Unique idea indeed.

It is this,if no clear candidate is declared prior to the Denver convention, that Al Gore will be nominated. Was he on the ballot? I understand Florida one of the two maverick states may have had a different ballot than the rest of America? Do I need glasses?

How did Al Gore cut the line? Talk about being disenfranchised ..... how many millions voted? How many wrote in Al Gores name? Someone said Clinton would be happy? Obama? Will he be happy too?

Strange idea, but what do I know? As a Florida voter I have been told to shut up and sit in the corner. After all the election is about Super Delegates don't we all know?

What am I missing? Here is Barack Hussien Obama, and besides the African-Americans people are voting for him?

He goes to the same church for twenty years, OK forget about Rev. Wright who is like an Uncle-Obama knows what this church is all about, dislike of white people , according to the churches twelve commandments. POINT # 1

The church supports Mr. Farrakhan a Islam Radical group. Obama will not leave this church. POINT #2

His connection with Rezko, who is on trail for money laundering??? Worked out a deal to purchase his home and empty lot very inexpensively. Obama someting smells here like fish. POINT #3

He has Family in Africa, Indonesia Muslims. Blood is thicker than water. You can pick your friends , but not your relatives. POINT # 4

He had a friend in the weather underground who bombed our government buildings, when he was caught he wished he could have done more. Obama received donation for Senate race in ILL. POINT #5

His wife for the first time in her adult live is proud to be an American, because of Obama's campaign. POINT #6

He LIED to the American voters about his knowledge of Rev. Wrights attitude and sermons. POINT # 7

Ok, you ready for this , MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, commentators refuse to report anything negative about Barack Hussien Obama, they made a Media Messiah out of him.
The people who voted for him, may not have known much about the seven articles above??? or the people who voted for him , all of the 7 comments above doesn't mean anything or they agree with them.

The word Patriotism, just a word, the above seven Points fall into this words meaning.

THE MEDIA HAS BEEN VERY NEGATIVE TOWARDS HILARY RODHAM CLINTON.

If Barack Hussien Obama wins the nomination, the independent and the supporters of Hillary Clinton will vote for John McCain.

I sent the following letter to my state's superdelegates who had endorsed Obama. I would ask all superdelegates to consider it:

March 22, 2008

Dear Texas Superdelegate:

As a fellow Texan who loves our country, I am asking you to reconsider your endorsement of Barack Obama. I truly believe the events of the last week have raised too many questions that need to be answered before Obama is ready to be President of the United States.

I fully understand that it was his pastor, not Obama himself, who made such anti-American, racist remarks from the pulpit. However, it concerns me that Obama continued to attend, and to expose his young children, to such rhetoric. One of the strengths frequently touted about Obama is his good judgment, but this issue raises questions about his judgment.

Please understand that I am not suggesting that Obama himself is necessarily anti-American or racist. Rather, I’m saying that we just don’t know him well enough yet. I would have no problem voting for a Clinton/Obama ticket, where Obama would have four or eight years to demonstrate his abilities and his character.

In this important time in our nation’s history, we need more than the audacity of hope to make this transition to a new administration a safe and smooth one. We need someone who understands the political machine that is Washington D.C. and has the tools to work for change within that political machine.

We need Hillary Clinton in 2008!

Thank you for your consideration of my thoughts.

The idiots that keep voting for him are the people that don't read papers, don't use internet, don't watch t.v. except maybe dancing with the stars, the youth who are too stone to even know his ties with all the radicals muslim individuals, the list can go on and on- these are the people that still have this man running for presidency.

Even repeating the words as Wright did he fed into the hysteria of his flock. They were clapping and yelling and patting him on the back, so he was reinforcing what he was regurgitating. Hatred! pure and simple. As for the Catholics I don't approve of them much either. But the priests are hunted down and punished. Not so with Mr. Wright. Rezco gave Mr Obama a quarter of a million dollars for his campaign and when he finally admitted to it of course he couldn't give it back cuz there is no money left in the campaign fund. Is that why he waited so long to come forward with the truth? So he wouldn't have to pay it back. This Rezco thing is going to catch up with your savior. Obama is now unelectable. He has a radical agenda and has divided us all on racism. Shame on him!

Fellow Americans and Fellow Democrats..and anyone who supports Obama think about this man. This man is not what our country needs. Read his book, look at his hate mongering pastor and wife, Rezko, lies, plagerism and the biggest problem..his muslim past. We don't know this man.

It's funny to me how Bill Clinton was beat down when he claimed to have not inhaled, yet Obama has used all kinds of drugs in his past, read his book.

The lies to get elected I can deal with!! But when someones allegiance to America is questioned, that's where I draw the line.

I am a democrat to the core..never thought I would be forced to vote republican, but this time I will cast my vote for Mccain. Hillary is my pick, I trust her with America and the fact she is a woman only makes me feel safer and prouder.

Even though I support Hillary, any democratic candidate besides Obama would be my choice. Black, female, oriental..whatever as long as they are true to America first and the democratic party they would have my vote. Not Obama.

Let's stick together and try and get Hillary to the convention, that is our only hope because Obama will never win against Mccain.

Hillary or Mccain 08--True Americans--ALL OF THEIR ADULT LIVES!!!

Ok Obama gave $27,000 to the Trinity Church. Yet, he doesn't know what is Pastor preaches?

As Hillary Clinton positions herself for a presidential run, a former fund-raiser is moving ahead with a lawsuit claiming the New York senator orchestrated the largest campaign-finance fraud ever by an American political campaign.
Peter Paul has filed a civil suit charging Sen. Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, with fraud, coercion and conspiracy. California courts so far have denied the Clintons' motions to dismiss, and Paul expects the case to proceed at the beginning of the year, just as Hillary Clinton prepares to defend her Senate seat. Hillary has refused to personally admit she took any of the $1.2 million plus the Department of Justice prosecuted her finance director for hiding in 2005.
READ IT AT:
http://www.hillcap.org/pp_complaint_022504_njw.pdf

As Hillary Clinton positions herself for a presidential run, a former fund-raiser is moving ahead with a lawsuit claiming the New York senator orchestrated the largest campaign-finance fraud ever by an American political campaign.
Peter Paul has filed a civil suit charging Sen. Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, with fraud, coercion and conspiracy. California courts so far have denied the Clintons' motions to dismiss, and Paul expects the case to proceed at the beginning of the year, just as Hillary Clinton prepares to defend her Senate seat. Hillary has refused to personally admit she took any of the $1.2 million plus the Department of Justice prosecuted her finance director for hiding in 2005.
READ IT AT:
http://www.hillcap.org/pp_complaint_022504_njw.pdf

"PRIMARY MAY SIGNAL END OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY"
DeWayne Wickham Sunday March 23 2008

"CLINTONS SHOW THEY'LL DO ANYTHING TO WIN"
Chuck Raasch Tuesday March 25 2008

"STUBBORN CLINTON MAY BE RAY OF HOPE FOR GOP"
Jonah Goldberg Wednesday March 26 2008

Newspapers are 'informing' Americans of what may be the "end of the Democratic party." "If Clinton keeps this going to the convention, the nomination will largely be left to the whims of the party hackocracy" (Superdelegates).

Each side believes it is the destiny of Obama to be the first black president or Hillary to be the first woman president. What ever side loses, at the last hour by backroom deals at the convention, will feel cheated of that historic destiny.

Judging by the pissing whining and moaning over Bush winning Florida for the past eight years it is hard to imagine the losers "getting over it" and supporting the Democratic nominee just three months after the convention.

Anyone who truly supports the principle of EQUALITY OF RIGHTS ought to ask why Hillary Clinton should even be eligible to be elected President and serve as Commander-in-Chief. Because of her sex, she was exempt from the most onerous burden of citizenship and was never required to register for the draft. Tens of thousands of her male contemporaries were not nearly as fortunate, many perishing in the hellhole of Vietnam. Since being elected to the US Senate, Ms. Clinton, who claims to champion the principle of equality of rights, has done NOTHING to end male-only Selective Service registration -- the most egregious extant sex discrimination under federal law. She did, however, vote to send AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO IRAQ, thousands of whom (nearly all male) have since been killed by REAL bullets or bombs. I have little doubt that if elected President, Ms. Clinton (THE LEADING RECIPIENT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DEFENSE CONTRACTORS) will readily send MEN -- like expendable drones -- to fight and die to protect and preserve HER freedom. A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for DISHONESTY, HYPOCRISY and SEXISM.

Hello fellow democrats and AMERICANS....Take a close look at this man Obama. Please read my previous post on this blog (something I have never done before now).

This man is not the Messiah. We are talking about AMERICA. Our wonderful country. We do not know this man. Regarless if you are black, white, hispanic, oriental..whatever. We don't know this man. Look at him closely read his book, look at his pastor, who by the way grew up in a very comfortable way, his wife, Rezko, plagerism, the fact he gave his race speech and took no questions (the messiah has spoken), his past drug use..all these things.

Come on, he is not electible thank god!!

Think about AMERICA! This is the best country. I am proud of America and I wish to stay that way!!

Lifelong Democrat here voting for Mccain if Obama gets the nod!!

Go Hillary, all the way to the convention. All I can do is donate money, fundraise and talk on these blogs. But if I change one persons mind, that is a good thing!!

Hillary or Mccain 08--True Americans ALL OF THEIR ADULT LIVES!!

Many Dem. voters in Pa. do not see O'Bama as a "new breeze"
!!!!!...............actually we view him poorly for having stayed in the not so good reverend's church too long and cannot dismiss what Sen. O'Bama defends as just a small number of "stupid comments"!!!!! By Baracks not standing up for America, to the devisivness, hatred and screaming tone of racism in this church, he accepted complacently what was being preached....especially by staying there 20 long years. We feel he might not stand up for America in a national crisis. We see a major character flaw, unworthy of representing our country as Commander in Chief . We also view his speeches as sermons, without any great insight...just that he mimics what we all have been saying the past 8 years with G.W. Bush and people are just agreeing with this ....he has no new ideas or plans as far as we can see and feel he is hiding alot. We will not vote for him !!!! Hillary has been an action oriented public servant for years, has much more experience, more detailed plans, and we also feel, despite the M.L. scandal, that Bill would be an extra bonus to find our way out of the red economy we face !!!!!

Many Dem. voters in Pa. do not see O'Bama as a "new breeze"
!!!!!...............actually we view him poorly for having stayed in the not so good reverend's church too long and cannot dismiss what Sen. O'Bama defends as just a small number of "stupid comments"!!!!! By Baracks not standing up for America, to the devisivness, hatred and screaming tone of racism in this church, he accepted complacently what was being preached....especially by staying there 20 long years. We feel he might not stand up for America in a national crisis. We see a major character flaw, unworthy of representing our country as Commander in Chief . We also view his speeches as sermons, without any great insight...just that he mimics what we all have been saying the past 8 years with G.W. Bush and people are just agreeing with this ....he has no new ideas or plans as far as we can see and feel he is hiding alot. We will not vote for him !!!! Hillary has been an action oriented public servant for years, has much more experience, more detailed plans, and we also feel, despite the M.L. scandal, that Bill would be an extra bonus to find our way out of the red economy we face !!!!!

I hope the voters in North Carolina and Penn. will take a hard long look at Rev Wright's videos. Senator O Bama's advisor and mentor for most of his adult life seemed to be filled with so much hate for The United States. It seems impossible to believe that Senator O Bama was not aware of his rantings and ravings against The United States of America. O Bama preaches about us all comming together Monday through Saturday , but not so much on Sunday I guess. I can't imagine Rev Wright conducting a service at The White House. Senator O Bama keeps talking about GOOD JUDGEMENT and that WORDS matter. I don't think he has shown very good judgement . He lashes out at Hillary Clinton for saying she would not choose to stay in a church that she diagreed with. Senator O Bama acted like she had caused the problem, when he has shown such poor judgement. I don't think anyone that heard those hateful words could possibly blame anyone other than Rev Wright. I hope that Senator O Bama will withdraw from the race. I would feel a lot better knowing that he really is a positive force for this country. As of now, I feel very uneasy with his choice of friends and advisors.

Many Dem. voters in Pa. do not see O'Bama as a "new breeze"
!!!!!...............actually we view him poorly for having stayed in the not so good reverend's church too long and cannot dismiss what Sen. O'Bama defends as just a small number of "stupid comments"!!!!! By Baracks not standing up for America, to the devisivness, hatred and screaming tone of racism in this church, he accepted complacently what was being preached....especially by staying there 20 long years. We feel he might not stand up for America in a national crisis. We see a major character flaw, unworthy of representing our country as Commander in Chief . We also view his speeches as sermons, without any great insight...just that he mimics what we all have been saying the past 8 years with G.W. Bush and people are just agreeing with this ....he has no new ideas or plans as far as we can see and feel he is hiding alot. We will not vote for him !!!! Hillary has been an action oriented public servant for years, has much more experience, more detailed plans, and we also feel, despite the M.L. scandal, that Bill would be an extra bonus to find our way out of the red economy we face !!!!!

Hillary Clinton’s Spiritual Adivsor Doug Coe And His Curious Admiration For Nazis And Communist Killings

VIDEO INCLUDED IN LINK

http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/03/25/hillary-clintons-spiritual-adivsor-doug-coe-and-his-curious-admiration-for-nazis-and-communist-killings


WONDER HOW WELL IT WILL GO OVER WITH CATHOLIC PENNSYLVANIANS ON HILLARY'S PRO-CHOICE! DEPENDING WHO HILLARY IS TALKING TO SHE WILL EITHER BE PRO-ABORTION OR ANTI-ABORTION! FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP! POWER OF THE INDIVIDUAL IS DECIDED BY THE MAJORITY!


http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer-4.html

Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics

News: For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of a secretive
religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back to Capitol Hill. Is
she triangulating—or living her faith?

By Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet
Illustration by: Andy Friedman

September 1, 2007

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It was an elegant example of the Clinton style, a rhetorical maneuver
subtle, bold, and banal all at once. During a Democratic candidate
forum in June, hosted by the liberal evangelical group Sojourners,
Hillary Clinton fielded a softball query about Bill's infidelity: How
had her faith gotten her through the Lewinsky scandal?

After a glancing shot at Republican "pharisees," Clinton explained
that, of course, her "very serious" grounding in faith had helped her
weather the affair. But she had also relied on the "extended faith
family" that came to her aid, "people whom I knew who were literally
praying for me in prayer chains, who were prayer warriors for me."

Such references to spiritual warfare—prayer as battle against
Satan, evil, and sin—might seem like heavy evangelical rhetoric for
the senator from New York, but they went over well with the Sojourners
audience, as did her call to "inject faith into policy." It was
language that recalled Clinton's Jesus moment a year earlier, when
she'd summoned the Bible to decry a Republican anti-immigrant
initiative that she said would "criminalize the good Samaritan...and
even Jesus himself." Liberal Christians crowed ("Hillary Clinton
Shows the Way Democrats Can Use the Bible," declared a blogger at
TPMCafe) while conservative pundits cried foul, accusing Clinton of
scoring points with a faith not really her own.

In fact, Clinton's God talk is more complicated—and more deeply
rooted—than either fans or foes would have it, a revelation not
just of her determination to out-Jesus the gop, but of the powerful
religious strand in her own politics. Over the past year, we've
interviewed dozens of Clinton's friends, mentors, and pastors about
her faith, her politics, and how each shapes the other. And while
media reports tend to characterize Clinton's subtle recalibration of
tone and style as part of the Democrats' broader move to recapture
the terrain of "moral values," those who know her say there's far
more to it than that.

Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active
participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are
part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her
collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback
(R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from
that connection. "A lot of evangelicals would see that as just
cynical exploitation," says the Reverend Rob Schenck, a former leader
of the militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue who now ministers
to decision makers in Washington. "I don't....there is a real good
that is infected in people when they are around Jesus talk, and open
Bibles, and prayer."

Clinton's faith is grounded in the Methodist beliefs she grew up with
in Park Ridge, Illinois, a conservative Chicago suburb where she was
active in her church's altar guild, Sunday school, and youth group.
It was there, in 1961, that she met the Reverend Don Jones, a
30-year-old youth pastor; Jones, a friend of Clinton's to this day,
told us he knows "more about Hillary Clinton's faith than anybody
outside her family."

Because Jones introduced Clinton and her teenage peers to the civil
rights movement and modern poetry and art, Clinton biographers often
cast him as a proto-'60s liberal who sowed seeds of radicalism
throughout Park Ridge. Jones, though, describes his theology as
neoorthodox, guided by the belief that social change should come
about slowly and without radical action. It emerged, he says, as a
third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the
New Deal's labor-based liberalism.

Under Jones' mentorship, Clinton learned about Reinhold Niebuhr and
Paul Tillich—thinkers whom liberals consider their own, but whom
young Hillary Rodham encountered as theological conservatives. The
Niebuhr she studied was a cold warrior, dismissive of the progressive
politics of his earlier writing. "He'd thought that once we were
unionized, the kingdom of God would be ushered in," Jones explains.
"But the effect of those two world wars and the violence that they
produced shook his faith in liberal theology. He came to believe that
the achievement of justice meant a clear understanding of the
limitations of the human condition." Tillich, whose sermon on grace
Clinton turned to during the Lewinsky scandal, today enjoys a
following among conservatives for revising the social gospel—the
notion that Christians are to improve humanity's lot here on earth by
fighting poverty, inequality, and exploitation—to emphasize
individual redemption instead of activism.

Niebuhr and Tillich's combination of aggressiveness in foreign
affairs and limited domestic ambition naturally led Clinton toward
the gop. She was a Goldwater Girl who, under the tutelage of her high
school history teacher Paul Carlson (whom Jones describes as "to the
right of the John Birchers"), attended biweekly anticommunist
meetings and later served as president of Wellesley's Young
Republicans chapter. Out of step with the era's radicalism, Clinton
wrote Jones from college, lamenting that her fellow students didn't
believe that one could be "a mind conservative and a heart liberal."
To Jones, this question indicated that Clinton shared Niebuhr's
notion of Christians needing to have "a dark enough view of life that
they can be realistic about what's possible."

Two decades later, while Bill was campaigning for president, Clinton
picked up that theme once more, displaying a theological depth that
conservative believers could appreciate. In an interview with the
United Methodist Reporter, she expressed regret that her church had
focused too much on social gospel concerns in the '60s, '70s, and
'80s, "to the exclusion of personal faith and growth." The spirit,
believe theological conservatives, matters more than the flesh.
Clinton added that she was happy to see her liberal denomination
becoming more salvation centered in the '90s.

When Clinton first came to Washington in 1993, one of her first steps
was to join a Bible study group. For the next eight years, she
regularly met with a Christian "cell" whose members included Susan
Baker, wife of Bush consigliere James Baker; Joanne Kemp, wife of
conservative icon Jack Kemp; Eileen Bakke, wife of Dennis Bakke, a
leader in the anti-union Christian management movement; and Grace
Nelson, the wife of Senator Bill Nelson, a conservative Florida
Democrat.

Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"),
a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and
military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ,
many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the
annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the
group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican
Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the
elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes.
Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's
plan.

Clinton declined our requests for an interview about her faith, but
in Living History, she describes her first encounter with Fellowship
leader Doug Coe at a 1993 lunch with her prayer cell at the Cedars,
the Fellowship's majestic estate on the Potomac. Coe, she writes, "is
a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor
and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to
deepen his or her relationship with God."

The Fellowship's ideas are essentially a blend of Calvinism and
Norman Vincent Peale, the 1960s preacher of positive thinking. It's a
cheery faith in the "elect" chosen by a single voter—God—and a
devotion to Romans 13:1: "Let every soul be subject unto the higher
powers....The powers that be are ordained of God." Or, as Coe has put
it, "we work with power where we can, build new power where we can't."

When Time put together a list of the nation's 25 most powerful
evangelicals in 2005, the heading for Coe's entry was "The Stealth
Persuader." "You know what I think of when I think of Doug Coe?" the
Reverend Schenck (a Coe admirer) asked us. "I think literally of the
guy in the smoky back room that you can't even see his face. He sits
in the corner, and you see the cigar, and you see the flame, and you
hear his voice—but you never see his face. He's that shadowy
figure."

Coe has been an intimate of every president since Ford, but he rarely
imposes on chief executives, who see him as a slightly mystical but
apolitical figure. Rather, Coe uses his access to the Oval Office as
currency with lesser leaders. "If Doug Coe can get you some face time
with the President of the United States," one official told the author
of a Princeton study of the National Prayer Breakfast last year, "then
you will take his call and seek his friendship. That's power."

"If you're going to do religion in public life," concurs Schenck, a
Jewish convert to fundamentalist Christianity who's retained his
sense of irony, Coe's friendship is a kind of "kosher...seal of
approval."

Coe's friends include former Attorney General John Ashcroft,
Reaganite Edwin Meese III, and ultraconservative Rep. Joe Pitts
(R-Pa.). Under Coe's guidance, Meese has hosted weekly prayer
breakfasts for politicians, businesspeople, and diplomats, and Pitts
rose from obscurity to head the House Values Action Team, an
off-the-record network of religious right groups and members of
Congress created by Tom DeLay. The corresponding Senate Values Action
Team is guided by another Coe protégé, Brownback, who also claims to
have recruited King Abdullah of Jordan into a regular study of Jesus'
teachings.

The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders
of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the
spirit." According to the Fellowship's archives, the spirit has in
the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the
Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The
Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of
Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez
Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to
Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other
generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular
visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent
where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing
and spiritual guidance.

We contacted all of Clinton's Fellowship cell mates, but only one
agreed to speak—though she stressed that there's much she's not "at
liberty" to reveal. Grace Nelson used to be the organizer of the
Florida Governor's Prayer Breakfast, which makes her a piety broker
in Florida politics—she would decide who could share the head table
with Jeb Bush. Clinton's prayer cell was tight-knit, according to
Nelson, who recalled that one of her conservative prayer partners was
at first loath to pray for the first lady, but learned to "love
Hillary as much as any of us love Hillary." Cells like these, Nelson
added, exist in "parliaments all over the world," with all welcome so
long as they submit to "the person of Jesus" as the source of their
power.

Throughout her time at the White House, Clinton writes in Living
History, she took solace from "daily scriptures" sent to her by her
Fellowship prayer cell, along with Coe's assurances that she was
right where God wanted her. (Clinton's sense of divine guidance has
been noted by others: Bishop Richard Wilke, who presided over the
United Methodist Church of Arkansas during her years in Little Rock,
told us, "If I asked Hillary, 'What does the Lord want you to do?'
she would say, 'I think I'm called by the Lord to be in public
service at whatever level he wants me.'")

Coe counsels that Fellowship cells shouldn't engage in direct
evangelical activism, but rather allow Christian causes to benefit
from the bonds that develop within the cells. Former Nixon counsel
Chuck Colson provides a rare illustration of the process in his 1976
Watergate memoir, Born Again. Facing prosecution in 1973, Colson
allowed Coe to ensconce him in a Fellowship cell with a Nixon foe,
Senator Harold Hughes. Hughes became the Nixon hatchet man's
staunchest defender, voting in favor of a possible pardon for Colson
and later supporting Colson as he built Prison Fellowship, now one of
the most powerful organizations of the Christian right.

That's how it works: The Fellowship isn't out to turn liberals into
conservatives; rather, it convinces politicians they can transcend
left and right with an ecumenical faith that rises above politics.
Only the faith is always evangelical, and the politics always move
rightward.

This is in line with the Christian right's long-term strategy.
Francis Schaeffer, late guru of the movement, coined the term
"cobelligerency" to describe the alliances evangelicals must forge
with conservative Catholics. Colson, his most influential disciple,
has refined the concept of cobelligerency to deal with less-than-pure
politicians. In this application, conservatives sit pretty and wait
for liberals looking for common ground to come to them. Clinton,
Colson told us, "has a lot of history" to overcome, but he sees her
making the right moves.

These days, Clinton has graduated from the political wives' group
into what may be Coe's most elite cell, the weekly Senate Prayer
Breakfast. Though weighted Republican, the breakfast—regularly
attended by about 40 members—is a bipartisan opportunity for
politicians to burnish their reputations, giving Clinton the chance
to profess her faith with men such as Brownback as well as the twin
terrors of Oklahoma, James Inhofe and Tom Coburn, and, until
recently, former Senator George Allen (R-Va.). Democrats in the group
include Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, who told us that the separation
of church and state has gone too far; Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is also
a regular.

Unlikely partnerships have become a Clinton trademark. Some are
symbolic, such as her support for a ban on flag burning with Senator
Bob Bennett (R-Utah) and funding for research on the dangers of video
games with Brownback and Santorum. But Clinton has also joined the gop
on legislation that redefines social justice issues in terms of
conservative morality, such as an anti-human-trafficking law that
withheld funding from groups working on the sex trade if they didn't
condemn prostitution in the proper terms. With Santorum, Clinton
co-sponsored the Workplace Religious Freedom Act; she didn't back off
even after Republican senators such as Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter
pulled their names from the bill citing concerns that the measure
would protect those refusing to perform key aspects of their
jobs—say, pharmacists who won't fill birth control prescriptions,
or police officers who won't guard abortion clinics.

Clinton has championed federal funding of faith-based social
services, which she embraced years before George W. Bush did; Marci
Hamilton, author of God vs. the Gavel, says that the Clintons'
approach to faith-based initiatives "set the stage for Bush." Clinton
has also long supported the Defense of Marriage Act, a measure that
has become a purity test for any candidate wishing to avoid war with
the Christian right.

Liberal rabbi Michael Lerner, whose "politics of meaning" Clinton
made famous in a speech early in her White House tenure, sees the
senator's ambivalence as both more and less than calculated
opportunism. He believes she has genuine sympathy for liberal
causes—rights for women, gays, immigrants—but often will not
follow through. "There is something in her that pushes her toward
caring about others, as long as there's no price to pay. But in
politics, there is a price to pay."

In politics, those who pay tribute to the powerful also reap rewards.
When Ed Klein's attack bio, The Truth About Hillary, came out in 2005,
some of her most prominent defenders were Christian conservatives,
among them Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert
Mohler. "Christians," he declared, "should repudiate this book and
determine to take no pleasure in it."

Senator Brownback understood the temptation. He used to hate Clinton
so much, he told us, that the hate hurt. Then came the Clintons' 1994
National Prayer Breakfast appearance with Mother Teresa, who upbraided
the couple for their pro-choice views. Bill made no attempt to conceal
his anger, but Hillary took it and smiled. Brownback remembers
thinking, "Now, there's gotta be a great lesson here." He didn't know
what it was until Clinton got to the Senate and joined him in
supporting DeLay's Day of Reconciliation resolution following the
2000 election, a proposal described by its backers as a call to "pray
for our leaders." Now, Brownback considers Clinton "a beautiful child
of the living God."

Clinton, for her part, turned Mother Teresa's sucker punch into
political opportunity. She met with the nun after the prayer
breakfast, visited her orphanage in India, helped her set up another
one in Washington (which has since become an apparently inoperative
branch of Mother Teresa's conservative Vatican order, the
Missionaries of Charity), and generally built a highly visible
friendship with a figure whose moral bona fides also came with an
anti-abortion imprimatur that couldn't but help Clinton on the right.

Of course, no matter how much Clinton speaks of common ground, she
doesn't stand a chance of winning votes among pro-lifers. As Tom
McClusky of the Family Research Council, command central for
Washington's Christian right, told us, movement conservatives
consider legislation like Clinton's Putting Prevention First Act,
which supports greater access to birth control and sex ed, "just
another condom giveaway."

But the senator's project isn't the conversion of her adversaries;
it's tempering their opposition so she can court a new generation of
Clinton Republicans, values voters who have grown estranged from the
Christian right. And while such crossover conservatives may never
agree with her on the old litmus-test issues, there is an important,
and broader, common ground—the kind of faith-based politics that,
under the right circumstances, will permit majority morality to trump
individual rights. The libertarian Cato Institute recently observed
that Clinton is "adding the paternalistic agenda of the religious
right to her old-fashioned liberal paternalism." Clinton suggests as
much herself in her 1996 book, It Takes a Village, where she writes
approvingly of religious groups' access to schools, lessons in
Scripture, and "virtue" making a return to the classroom.

Then, as now, Clinton confounded secularists who recognize public
faith only when it comes wrapped in a cornpone accent. Clinton speaks
instead the language of nondenominationalism—a sober, eloquent
appreciation of "values," the importance of prayer, and "heart"
convictions—which liberals, unfamiliar with the history of
evangelical coalition building, mistake for a tidy, apolitical
accommodation, a personal separation of church and state. Nor do
skeptical voters looking for political opportunism recognize that,
when Clinton seeks guidance among prayer partners such as Coe and
Brownback, she is not so much triangulating—much as that may have
become second nature—as honoring her convictions. In her own way,
she is a true believer.


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