Faith

is Tweeting: Obama kicks off his Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships - and it's vague on prote.. http://tinyurl.com/d68hjl

February 5, 2009 by admin

- Obama kicks off his Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships - and it's vague on protections. http://tinyurl.com/bcf7cr (via

February 5, 2009 by admin

ANALYSIS: How red state Democratic candidates can defeat GOP Bush rubber-stamp incumbents!

August 7, 2008 by Blue Virginia

Hello Everyone:

I definitely think that Democratic challengers running for the House and Senate in red states can use Bush to their advantage if they are running against a GOP incumbent who has been a Bush rubber-stamp!

I will be using Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn who has been an overall Bush rubber-stamp as an example to illustrate this strategy as far as this post is concerned.

Obama Announcing Support for Funding Faith-Based Programs in Zanesville Today

July 1, 2008 by Ohio Daily Blog

UPDATE: Jill is [attempting to] live blog the speech, and links to an article in Politico with details on Obama's plans - more after the break.

This has the potential for being a significant day for Barack Obama's campaign. Today in Zanesville he is announcing his support for expanding federal funding of religious organizations that provide social services - a broadening of the Bush administration's "Faith-Based and Community Initiatives" program that drew fire from civil libertarians and had to be implemented through executive orders rather than legislation due to opposition in Congress.

The Obama campaign has sent out a message from John DiIulio, who was the director of Bush's program in 2001, saying that "empirical evidence continues to show that local faith-based organizations can make a measurable civic difference" and that Obama's plan "reminds me of much that was best in both then Vice President Al Gore's and then Texas Governor George W. Bush's respective first speeches on the subject in 1999."

NCMR2008: Faith Based Organizing and Media Reform

June 13, 2008 by Bitch PhD

Howdy! I’m nihilix, a community organizer and media activist from the Twin Cities, which as Bitch said was host of the National Conference on Media Reform. Having met Dr. B at said conference, I’m contributing my convention report. (Crossposted at nihilix, lord knows the site needs the update)

I got to the first of the panels I attended, Faith-Based Community Organizing and Media Reform, a little late, so missed out on why some of the listed folks weren’t there. Attending were Rev. Ben Guess from the United Church of Christ (a cute gay preacher in jeans, a white shirt, and a top-of-the-ear piercing), Rev. Romal Tune in suit with kerchief (the muted/flashy black minister outfit), local organizer Vic Rosenthal (imagine a Jewish Garrison Keillor) and Kathy Partridge, an energetic and competent Unitarian head of a feisty faith foundation.

The program promised to: