{"id":734,"date":"2008-07-22T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/07\/obama-hires-muslim-liaison.html"},"modified":"2008-07-22T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:40:17","slug":"obama-hires-muslim-liaison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/07\/obama-hires-muslim-liaison.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama Hires Muslim Liaison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"islam.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/islam.jpg\" width=\"118\" height=\"120\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0708\/Obama_campaign_hires_Muslim_liaison.html?showall\">Politico<\/a> says the position has been created but not filled. It also reports the hiring as completely routine for presidential nominees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The creation of the position comes as Obama builds out a more traditional, constituency-based campaign structure than he had in the primary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But God-o-Meter can&#8217;t recall previous examples of presidential campaigns hiring Muslim outreach staffers (though Politico says the one likely to fill the new slot did similar work for Wes Clark&#8217;s &#8217;04 presidential campaign). Though his campaign has, for the most part, declined to defend Islam as it combats rumors that Obama is Muslim&#8211;creating a stir among some American Muslims&#8211;GOM doubts he&#8217;s too worried about losing Muslim votes to John McCain. George W. Bush&#8217;s War on Terror demolished the (often forgotten) inroads that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/06\/30\/MNG557E4K71.DTL\">GOP made with Muslim voters in 2000<\/a>.<br \/>\nStill, might the Obama camp be worried about dampening the Muslim vote as it forcefully debunks those Muslim rumors?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico says the position has been created but not filled. It also reports the hiring as completely routine for presidential nominees: The creation of the position comes as Obama builds out a more traditional, constituency-based campaign structure than he had in the primary. But God-o-Meter can&#8217;t recall previous examples of presidential campaigns hiring Muslim outreach&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama Hires Muslim Liaison - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/07\/obama-hires-muslim-liaison.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama Hires Muslim Liaison - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Politico says the position has been created but not filled. 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