I am a lower-case atheist (with agnostic sprinkles on top) and normally I just get bored/nauseated when politicians start talking about God. But given that a distressing number of Americans still believe that Obama is a "secret Muslim" (and they think Muslim=terrorist), I really think he should start dropping a little more Jesus into his speeches. I mean, if he was saying stuff like he says in that speech, driving home that he IS a Christian even if he's not a fundamentalist swine, I think it'd do him some good in the polls.
The problem with the number of Amercians that believe that Obama is a "secret Muslim" is that many are probably the same people that point at Wright and use the fact that Wright is his former paster and spiritual leader against Obama. These people will never vote for Obama in the first place in my opinion. So no matter what is said and done in this respect would make any difference.
Oh, I'm glad you are looking into Obama. I'm a recovering republican, myself. I realised ideology tends not to work in reality. And that no, the modern republican party is not the party of Lincoln. I, too, need to find out more about this man. But wait... perhaps not. I really want to vote for him. If I learn too much, I may change my mind. Crap. Nope. I won't. Sad, really, how I've come to embrace ignorance. *sigh*
Yeah, the modern Republican party is really awful at the moment. I want fiscal responsibility/conservatism and smaller government (part of that means for the government to get out of people's freaking private lives and stop legislating religious intolerance). I try to keep up with politics but I don't obsess about it, so I don't know lots of details, but I try to keep myself education on the issues that I find important and the positions of the candidates on those issues.
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