Will Senator Obama Use Iraq to Win the Catholic Vote?By Deal W. Hudson 4/9/2008
Inside Catholic (http://www.insidecatholic.com/)
Will Catholic voters overlook his position on other life and justice issues?
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Inside Catholic) - An editorial in the Jesuit's America magazine recently predicted that Sen. Barack Obama will profit by the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States. The moment the Holy Father denounces the war in Iraq, it will provide a "big opening for Sen. Obama," according to (leftist extremist) Michael Sean Winters.
Winters argues that Obama can "invoke the foresight of John Paul II, a man still revered among American Catholics," while contrasting himself to Sen. Hillary Clinton, President Bush, and, most importantly, Sen. John McCain.
Winters is undoubtedly right. The question is whether Catholic voters can be persuaded to overlook his extreme stances on the life issues, all of which are opposed to Catholic teaching, in order to register their protest against an unpopular war and those who supported it -- namely, John McCain. Winters may not be right, however, when he predicts that "Pope Benedict will put the Iraq War, and the thinking that got us into that war, back at the center of political discussion." Such an eventuality, according to Winters's thinking, will advance Obama's cause among Catholic voters.
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2 comments:
Even Deal Hudson sees that Obama is doing well with the Catholic vote.
John Kerry lost the Catholic vote and so will Obama. The Democratic Party is closing the door on practicing Catholics. The expulsion of Catholics from The Democrat Party has been going on 35 years now.
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