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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (343884)	1/16/2003 5:26:16 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769670

Stupid media tricks: Slate founder Mike Kinsley is proud of his refusal to employ fact-checkers, but even so, somebody should have caught the mistake in William Saletan's column: You know this isn't going to be a standard Democratic presidential campaign kickoff when the guy introducing Sen. Joe Lieberman asks everyone to stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. With cameras rolling, Lieberman turns to the wall and recites the magic words: allegiance, flag, America, God. Stepping to the podium, he speaks of our "God-given talents." He says he feels "blessed by God" and believes "God's work must truly be our own." "My faith is at the center of who I am," he continues. "I'll not hesitate to talk about faith when it's relevant or to invoke God's name. . . . If the spirit moves me occasionally to say a word or two of faith, I think it's a very American thing to do." He smiles and sips from his glass as the audience applauds. Nobody's going to out-Christian Joe Lieberman. Lieberman is not Christian at all. He's Jewish. Then again, Saletan may be better off for not having known this fact. It would've sounded really bad if he'd written: "Nobody's going to out-Jew Joe Lieberman." opinionjournal.com