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Barack Obama's relationship with his longtime minister Jeremiah
Wright continues to draw scrutiny. But beyond the obvious
problems caused by being closely associated with somebody who
has a record of giving inflammatory sermons, there is the fact that
all the publicity surrounding Wright will make it more difficult
for Obama to pursue his goal of reaching out to religious voters in
the general election. In my profile
of him last year, I noted that in his book The
Audacity of Hope:
Obama also perceptively argues against liberals' attempts to secularize society, realizing that appealing to faith is actually an effective way to advance progressive ideas. "Scrub language of all religious content, and we forfeit the imagery and terminology through which millions of Americans understand both their personal morality and social justice."
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