In 2004, a handful of Catholic bishops publicly bashed John Kerry for being pro-choice. That no doubt contributed to Kerry’s loss of the Catholic vote, despite his own Catholicism. Democrats took note. So in 2008, a high-ranking Catholic Democratic National Committee official is bashing John McCain over his endorsement this week from John Hagee: “As…

The Tennessee Republican Party issued a press release on Monday questioning Barack Obama’s support for Israel. What made headlines, tough, was that the release used Obama’s middle name and the Drudge Report photo of Obama in traditional Muslim garb. After coming under fire from some high profile Republicans, like John McCain, the Tennessee GOP expunged…

So far as God-o-Meter can tell, this is the first we’ve heard about the controversy over using Barack Obama’s middle name from someone named Obama: at a rally in Canton, Ohio, Michelle Obama called it the “fear bomb.” The Chicago Tribune was on the scene: Michelle Obama, who often has decried “the fear bomb” that…

It’s just one line in Hillary Clinton’s new Ohio ad, but it caught God-o-Meter because the person voicing it, Buckeye State Governor Ted Strickland, is an ordained Methodist minister: I think she’s a person of deep faith .Is it Huckabee’s “Christian Leader” ad? No. Is it targeted toward white Ohio churchgoers?Probably.

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