{"id":136,"date":"2007-11-29T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/clinton-announces-black-pastor.html"},"modified":"2007-11-29T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T13:01:43","slug":"clinton-announces-black-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/11\/clinton-announces-black-pastor.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Announces Black Pastor Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hillaryblackpastors.jpg\"God-o-Meter is surprised that this story hasn’t gotten more pick-up: A group of 60 pastors, almost all of them African American, shared a stage with Hillary Clinton in Spartanburg, South Carolina yesterday, apparently offering their endorsements (video of the event here<\/a>.) The Spartanburg Herald-Journal<\/a> has the story:<\/p>\n

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign launched an aggressive effort to mobilize black voters through the faith community \u2014 crisscrossing two segments vital to winning her party\u2019s nomination in this state \u2014 during her first visit to Spartanburg as a candidate Tuesday.
\nAbout 60 pastors from around the Upstate joined her on stage at the Marriott at Renaissance Park \u2014 all but two of them were black \u2014 and her campaign said another 20 or so were in the audience. The crowd, more than 400 strong, was about two-thirds white….
\nBy 7 p.m., the Clinton campaign was only able to provide 44 names of pastors who had endorsed her. Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Cherokee and Union counties were said to be represented. A spokesman for the Obama campaign said it was not yet releasing the names of its supporters in the religious community. He did point out that Sen. Obama has conducted \u201cfaith forums\u201d in 20 counties across South Carolina and signed up 180 volunteers through those. Teresa Wells, an Edwards spokeswoman, added, \u201cWe all have black ministers. This is not a two-person contest. I don\u2019t know if we have 80. I\u2019ll be honest with you: If we did, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d put them out there like that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure, the “Hillary peeling off black support from Barack Obama” is the obvious angle for the news media to sink their teeth into, as the Associated Press<\/a> does. But God-o-Meter wonders about the propriety of all these pastors making endorsements, given IRS rules against church-based politicking<\/a>. Forgive GOM if it’s just being thick here, but isn’t that why, amid the blizzard of Republican endorsements from Christian Right\/evangelical figures, there have been relatively few from congregation-based pastors?<\/p>\n


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