{"id":508,"date":"2007-08-07T07:11:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T07:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/obama-and-clinton-friends-no-m.html"},"modified":"2007-08-07T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T07:11:41","slug":"obama-and-clinton-friends-no-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/obama-and-clinton-friends-no-m.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama and Clinton friends no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Hillary Clinton  and Sen. Barack Obama were once the most collegial of colleagues today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/07\/us\/politics\/07rivals.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin\">NYT reports<\/a>. Now? They don&#8217;t talk save for trying to look friendly when the camera is trained on them.<br \/>\nA big deal?  Anything unusual? Of course not.<br \/>\nIronic though considering how much talk there has been about &#8220;faith pervading&#8221; this presidential race. The old line about Christian political activism &#8220;turning a potential mission field into a battlefield&#8221; comes to mind, however. When rifts like these are mended perhaps we will know that a real faith-based race has begun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama were once the most collegial of colleagues today&#8217;s NYT reports. Now? They don&#8217;t talk save for trying to look friendly when the camera is trained on them. A big deal? Anything unusual? Of course not. Ironic though considering how much talk there has been about &#8220;faith pervading&#8221; this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama and Clinton friends no more - J Walking<\/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\/jwalking\/2007\/08\/obama-and-clinton-friends-no-m.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama and Clinton friends no more - J Walking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sen. 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