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To: bentway who wrote (377758)	4/11/2008 2:52:47 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573927

Offending passage "In an interview with GQ last week, Karl Rove accused Barack Obama of falsely writing in 'The Audacity of Hope' that 'people like ... Karl Rove say we are a Christian nation,' " John McCormack writes at www.weeklystandard.com. " 'I did not say that. I confronted him about it. At the White House,' Rove told GQ. Asked how Obama responded, Rove replied: 'Well, first he denied that I was in the book! And then he denied that it said that I said that it was a Christian nation. And then when I pulled out the thing [he had a copy of the offensive page with him] and showed it to him, he sort of blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah.' "Did Obama libel Rove? The Obama campaign did not respond to an e-mail requesting comment," Mr. McCormack said. "In the offending passage from 'The Audacity of Hope,' Obama wrote, 'But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power, for Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove and Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed, the fiery rhetoric was more than a matter of campaign strategy. They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No new taxes' or 'We are a Christian nation.' "This phrasing, though somewhat shifty, implies that Rove, Gingrich, Reed, and Norquist were opponents of 'new taxes' and proponents of a 'Christian nation.' Indeed, all four have opposed tax increases — though they may not have uttered the famous George H.W. Bush quote verbatim. But I was unable to find any public record of the four of them saying America is a 'Christian nation.' " Mr. McCormack added: "The revelation that Obama smeared some Republicans as being sectarian or theocratic may do more damage to his reputation, which suffered a blow last week when the Columbia Journalism Review wrote that Obama had been 'lying' or 'deeply misleading' in his claims that John McCain is willing to continue the war in Iraq for '100 years.' Even Frank Rich wrote in the New York Times that 'Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of themselves for libeling John McCain.' "