Politics and Culture

It's despicable to lie about somebody like whoever is sending the emails is about Obama. Just looking at it from a political perspective, it's also very dumb. Wouldn't being the victim of obvious, bigoted lies, only help Obama? Anyways, all of this religious talk from both sides is kind of weird. I don't know what to think. From here.

Follow up:

is attendance here at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, with the news media in tow, was as much an observation of faith as it was a rejoinder to baseless e-mailed rumors that he is a Muslim and poses a threat to the security of the United States...

...What I found during the course of this work was, one, that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they come together and find common ground," he told the congregation. "The other thing I discovered was that values of honesty, hard work, empathy, compassion were values that were spoken about in church .... I realized that Scripture and the words of God fit into the values I was raised in."

Obama regularly attends church while on the campaign trail, but seldom with reporters watching. He is known to invoke religious references in his speeches and has said he has a "personal relationship" with Jesus Christ. He often has said that religion has a place in public life and that faith and politics are not exclusively the domain of conservatives.