He is a long-time political supporter of President Barack Obama. Mikva offered Obama a law clerk position in his judicial office after Obama graduated from Harvard Law School; Obama declined the offer. US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was one of his law clerks.[4] Mikva became Obama’s political advisor and suggested he learn more effective public speaking from observing preachers. Mikva said of Obama: “He listened to patterns of speech, how to take people up the ladders. It’s almost a Baptist tradition to make someone faint, and, by God, he’s doing it now.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Abner_J._Mikva
Read the whole wiki on Abner. Interesting.
I have been a Baptist for all of my 71 years. I have NEVER heard of or have seen anyone faint in church due to the speaker.