What's Behind Obama's "Committed Christian" Mailer? "I just heard about this yesterdy.

[Captain_Nemo]

I have friends in the south who talked about Obama's campaign in SC that , on the back, is a picture of him and the words "Committed Christian."


What's Behind Obama's "Committed Christian" Mailer?
January 21, 2008 12:27 PM

The Obama camp has a new South Carolina mailer touting him as a "committed Christian" who has been "called to Christ." (TPM Election Central has the full image.)

As Greg Sargent notes, the Obama-Muslim smear has been pushed around heavily in South Carolina, mostly via email. But it's unclear whether the Obama camp is making a pro-active step to ensure this doesn't cost him votes, or whether the campaign has data showing that the smear had an impact in earlier contests.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton seemed to indicate the former in an email to the Huffington Post:

"No matter how the smears come at us, we have to be forceful in defending the truth about Obama's record and his life. Voters don't know Obama as well as they know the Clintons so we have to spend more time making sure that people have accurate information about his biography."

In the last few weeks, Jewish leaders and members of Congress have released letters defending Obama. Of course, thanks to the inexplicable fact that exit pollsters collect religious information from Republicans but not Democrats, we can't tell how Obama has performed among Jewish voters (or among evangelicals, born-agains, etc.).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/21/whats-behind-obamas-co_n_82519.html

[LittleBlue]

1. An attempt to get crossover votes. Repubs are weird, you have to agree with them

on totally non-related issues to get them to see reason. A candidate can propose everything they like, but if they're from the wrong church it is a diqualifier.

[Captain_Nemo]

15. the words "committed Christian" raises the red flags on me.

[tekisui]

2. Maybe to put to bed the *Muslim* smears.

[Ian David]

7. Exactly. Getting out in front of it. People actually BELIEVE everying in their email in-box.

"Obama is a Muslim! Oh, I can't vote for him! But I will send my bank account information to the nice Christian man in Nigera..."

[Captain_Nemo]

13. and , to remind fundamentalists that he is a christian. Sorry, "committed christian" is not

something this liberal atheist democratic feminist trusts.

[Occam Bandage]

16. Then you're going to have a hard time with each of the candidates.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4158424&mesg_id=4158424

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4158307

[Captain_Nemo]

17. But, Obama is supposedly the agent of change. I am not seeing it. And his religiousity is far more

intense than any of the candidates.

[Critters2]

20. Fundamentalist clergy know he's UCC, and will discourage their parishioners

from supporting him for this reason. They won't support anyone from a church that ordains and marries gays, no matter what Obama says on the issues.

[Ian David]

3. Did Romney put out a mailer accusing Obama of having a black baby? n/t

[polichick]

4. LOL nt

[lastliberalintexas]

6. snort

I don't know why I found your post so funny, but I did...

[Ian David]

9. Because that's what Bush's campaign did to McCain in South Carolina...

and that's the guy Romney hired for his campaign.

Meanwhile, McCain opened his South Carolina campaign with a mailer talking about his adopted brown-skinned daughter.

[lastliberalintexas]

10. Yeah, I realize that

And your comment was funny, but I really don't understand why it struck me as hilarious, LOL funny, still chuckling under my breath like it did. That was what I meant, sorry. :)

[Joe the Revelator]

5. Whats behind it? The muslim smear forwarded around by the Hillary campaign

among other people.

[kurth]

8. Future mailer: "Heaven is open only to those who accept Jesus Christ"

That ought to shut up the skeptics real good.

[krabigirl]

12. lol

[Critters2]

21. His denomination doesn't teach that nt

[MethuenProgressive]

11. 2 Clinton supporters once forwarded an email they recieved, and Obama's been trying to blame Clinton

Looks like this mailer was part of his successful plot to Swiftboat Clinton on Race in SC.

[Occam Bandage]

14. This is what's known as "being aggressive on swiftboating."

[Captain_Nemo]

19. Excuse me? I am swiftboating someone when I am alarmed at the extreme religiousity? Your

response is equivilant to liberals getting smeared for being unpatriotic when they critique something like war. As a woman I am right in being concerned.

[ErnestoG]

18. I wish John Kerry were as aggressively respondent on the Swiftboaters

Ever consider that a good lesson has been learned here, and Obama is exercising that education?