{"id":1024,"date":"2008-05-17T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2008-05-17T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T16:04:00","slug":"a-man-of-faith-the-brochure-says-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"A Man of Faith (the brochure says so)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama drapes himself in his Christian credentials<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apparently when Mike Huckabee<\/a> (a former pastor) did much the same thing, he was appealing to the worst impulses of the Religious Right. When Obama does it, there is no problem. Apparently.<\/p>\n

I want to see Obama posed on the steps of the Parthenon — the one in Nashville<\/a> — speaking about classical values. A little speech about arete<\/span><\/a>. Then I would vote for him for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama drapes himself in his Christian credentials. Apparently when Mike Huckabee (a former pastor) did much the same thing, he was appealing to the worst impulses of the Religious Right. When Obama does it, there is no problem. Apparently. I want to see Obama posed on the steps of the Parthenon — the one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[10,79],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-american-religion","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-gw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1025,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1025","url_meta":{"origin":1024,"position":0},"title":"Astrologers on the Presidential Race.","author":"Chas S. 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Let's see, I predict that my volunteer fire department will be called\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"prophecy\"","block_context":{"text":"prophecy","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=prophecy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1082,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1082","url_meta":{"origin":1024,"position":4},"title":"Gallimaufry & What Didn’t Happen","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"November 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 When M. and I left our hotel room on Tuesday, the lobby was full of the crackle of police radios. 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