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Scrutiny of Bush’s religious beliefs & those of his religious leaders and mentors


I don’t know a thing about it.  Do you?

Who does George Bush consider to be his religious mentor? his religious leader? Have we seen an examination of the beliefs espoused by either individual? Does President Bush parrot them, or diverge but still belong?

What about John McCain? Hillary Clinton?

Where are the texts of the sermons they’ve listened to over however many years of services they’ve attended?

That’s stuff that’s got to be out there, somewhere.  Why isn’t it being plastered all over the place, or, at a minimum, side by side and in comparison to Barack Obama?

Maybe no one else cares, but I do.  Especially if the media expects us to view their reporting as neutral, unbiased and without prejudice.

Where are all the parallel stories?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:44 pm March 22nd, 2008 in Barack Obama, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Politics, Religion, WH2008 

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6 Responses to “Scrutiny of Bush’s religious beliefs & those of his religious leaders and mentors”

  1. 1 Judy on March 22nd, 2008 11:01 pm

    The Huffington Post had a piece on Mccain and Hagee; http://preview.tinyurl.com/2hzebh

    They also had a piece on McCain and a southern Ohio minister Rod Parsely;
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/385w5q

    I haven’t seen anything about Hillary’s religious advisers.

  2. 2 Chris Baker on March 23rd, 2008 8:42 am

    Very interesting point.

  3. 3 Jill Miller Zimon on March 23rd, 2008 8:57 am

    Thanks, Judy. I just feel that if the MSM is going to so closely examine Obama’s relationship to his church, then, at a minimum, to preserve that neutrality they want to lay claim to, they should be doing side by side comparisons of how Clinton and Bush and McCain’s religious mentors speak every week – I’m not sure – is Hagee actually the minister of wherever McCain attends?

  4. 4 Jill Miller Zimon on March 23rd, 2008 9:00 am

    Thanks, Chris.

    What has my ire up is that Fox & Friends clip where Chris Wallace gives those three talking heads a real lashing, and rightly so. And they just sit there and act as though they are the victims. Argh.

    And yet – where is the comparison? If we’re going to say that it’s so important for voters to know this stuff (which I think is VERY arguable anyway), then let’s see it – set up a side by side comparison – with where they attend, how often, who preaches, the text of those sermons and whether the candidate or the president was there to hear it.

    For goodness sakes.

    Did you see that Fox and Friends w/Chris Wallace?

  5. 5 Anon on March 23rd, 2008 9:44 am

    [I]s Hagee actually the minister of wherever McCain attends?

    No. Sen. McCain’s church is North Phoenix Baptist Church, whose pastor is Dan Yeary. Reuters has a story about Rev. Yeary, that also says a little about Rev. Wright.

    BTW, Hillary Clinton and religion got an examination of sorts early in the first Clinton administration. Remember the “Saint Hillary” cover story in the NYT Sunday Magazine on May 23, 1993? At that time, she had (if I remember correctly) some sort of association with Michael Lerner and his “politics of meaning.”

  6. 6 Jill Miller Zimon on March 23rd, 2008 9:51 am

    I’ve seen references to the St. Hillary thing but no, I don’t really remember it.

    What I want is one of those side by side comparisons that the MSM does for issues, done for religion – if we’re going to be doing that to Obama, let’s do it – and update it – for the others.

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