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To: JBTFD who wrote (257381)	2/23/2008 10:32:52 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) of 281500

Obama's strength is that he is able to inspire people to get involved and think that they may be able to make a difference. It is not salvation, it is faith, that people are interested in. Well yes, that is Obama's strength. But faith in what? hope for what? "Change you can believe in"? What does that mean? What exactly are his followers having faith in? Christians have faith in God and hope for salvation. Obama seems to be tapping the same springs in some undefined secular way. This is quite different from what Martin Luther King, whom Obama sometimes seems to be channeling, did in the 1960s. MLK's message was faith in God and hope for civil rights. Hugh Hewitt, a conservative talk radio host, has been inviting young Obama supporters to call his show. He has listened to several very politely and tried to draw out their reasons for supporting Obama. They are really charged up for Obama but they cannot say why except to repeat the mantras of change and faith. Some of them mention the war in Iraq, that's the nearest they come to an issue. In fact, it's the only issue where there's a discernible policy difference between Obama and Clinton. The whole thing seems to be about the way Obama is making his young supporters feel right now. Obama is providing uplifting mass rallies that allow his supporters to project all their hopes and desires onto him. That's why more and more people are drawing comparisons, not with JFK, but with the Beatles and Frank Sinatra. Girls fainted at their concerts too.

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