Posted on 12/26/2006 9:39:30 AM PST by jdm
That must have been a quick speech, or a two hour long laugh fest. And if the Pepperdine University referred to in this article is the one in Malibu, then to call it "conservative" is about as much a laugh as calling x42 "ethical".
Kerry also traveled recently to California for a meeting with Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-seller "The Purpose-Driven Life"
If Kerry emerged from that meeting without either acknowledging Jesus as his Lord and Savior or shaking with rage at being called out as a sinner doomed to eternal hellfire unless he repents, than it is obvious that Warren continues his slide into outright apostasy...
The fact that she needs a consultant says she doesn't feel Christian, doesn't know how to connect with us. She really shouldn't make it this easy to reject her as ever having a hope of being my choice for, well, anything...
That's hilarious.
Hillary, listen to this woman. Become even more pro-abortion, pacifist, and pro mariage. This will really get the religious right to vote for you in droves.
Hillary, I meant more pro-GAY marriage.
DON'T BELIEVE THE LIAR HILLARY CLINTON!!! And any 'faith' adviser who is willing to join Hillary isn't much about faith in the first place, IMO.
according to a memo from Burns Strider, an aide to Pelosi. "'More than 30 faith organizations are working with House Democrats on educating people about the negative impact of the Republican proposal to privatize Social Security," said Strider.
December 12, 2006
A New Candle In The Clinton Universe
Burns Strider, a senior policy adviser to incoming House majority whip James Clyburn, has agreed to join Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, should the Senator decide to run. Burns has more than a decade of political and policy experience, and he has a Southern pedigree. The son of Sheriff , Burns was chief of staff to ex-Rep. Ronnie Shows, and worked with Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson at the DCCC. A native of Grenada, MS, Strider has headed up the House Democratic Caucus's outreach to faith groups. His exact place in the Clinton hierarchy is unknown, but he'll likely serve as a senior political and policy aide to Clinton.
“I believe strongly in the power of faith in the public arena,” said Strider. Strider met his wife Karen while performing mission services in Hong Kong and China. Karen was a missionary in Japan at the time, he said. Strider said that while growing up he attened the Nazarene Church in Tallahatchie County. After searching several congregations in Washington, D.C., he decided to attend the United Methodist Church with his family, he said. Strider said working 16-hour days makes it difficult for him to spend time with his family. He and Karen have two boys Will, 5, and Pete, 3, who are the center of his life.
Burns Strider’s business card says he’s the policy director for the Democratic Party Caucus. But that title masks another role he plays for the
party: matchmaker between politicians and religious leaders.
Strider, 40, is a former senior aide to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who chose the amiable adviser to shepherd the House Democratic Faith Working Group. There, Burns, who considers himself both a Methodist and a Southern Baptist, has cultivated a broad and devoted network of clergy and others in the faith community.
“He probably does more than anyone on the staff level to move this thing forward,” said Eric Sapp, a partner at Common Good Strategies, a Democratic consulting firm. “He’s got the ear of a lot of people.”
Strider sets up sessions with Democratic lawmakers, clergy and leaders of faith-based groups — the type of “it’s-about-time” meetings that Democrats need to do more often, Strider said. The two biggest mistakes either party can make are to ignore and to manipulate faith communities, he claims.
“Both of these result in the same thing,” he said. “Either way you are going to suffer in the long run.”
Plenty of religious groups share similar agendas on the environment, poverty and foreign aid with Democrats, but they had not met until Strider brought them together.
“Too many times, we tend to say people of faith are here, and Democrats are (over) here,” he said, gesturing toward opposite ends of a long table.
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Hillary's Faith
Keying off her recent hiring of evangelical outreach expert Burns Strider, Hotline has an interesting mini-analysis of Hillary Clinton's faith, calling it "the only part of her life that hasn't undergone rigorous scrutiny."
"Though Strider, as a onetime staff member for Nancy Pelosi, is squarely in the liberal camp, Clinton is part of not one, but two, prayers groups with distinctly conservative bents: an exclusive Senate prayer group that meets on Wednesday mornings, and a women's prayer group that she's been a part of since her early White House days. The women's group is run by Holly Leachman, a layperson at the McLean Bible Church in Virginia, itself magnet for prominent conservatives, including former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Republican senators John Thune and James Inhofe, as well as several Bush staffers and their families.
"Leach's prayer group includes many prominent Republican wives, among them Susan Baker, wife of Iraq Study Group co-chairman James Baker, who along with Leachman ministered to Hillary Clinton in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. (Leachman, mentioned briefly in Clinton's memoir, Living History, is the wife of Washington Redskins chaplain Jerry Leachman)."
I can't see how it would be anything but good for Hillary's presidential hopes if this storyline were to become more prominent. Just look at the centrality of Barack Obama's public embrace of faith-based themes in the media's glowing assessment of his presidential chances.
The science of evangelical outreach, such as it is, may be a mystery to lots of Democratic voters, particularly those who live in New York. But if the early fence-sitters can be convinced that Hillary is the candidate who can do it -- and that's a fairly big if -- the whole "can't win" thing starts to make a lot less sense.
-- Azi Paybarah
You are not a Christian if you believe it's ok to suck the brains out of babies,or for that matter just kill them because it's inconvenient.
I did a report on this on my site- Yup- Hillary- the baby murdering, land grabbing, Christian right stealing candidate has hired a 'religious guru' to get hte votes- pathetic- http://sacredscoop.com/?p=561
All she has to do is fool Republicans into nominating Rudy Giuliani or John McCain.
Instead of who?
Instead of anyone who is a real conservative. She and her consultants know that by creating a division in the GOP will assure her of winning in 2008.
Exactly.
The monkey is on the backs of the RINOs, not the Conservatives, to hold the GOP together.
LOL! I just the saw the movie (original 1976 version) over the weekend.
Snicker. Blame whoever you want, the result is the same.
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