: About Me

In discussions on the Democratic presidential nomination, much has been made of the inflammatory comments by Barack Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright. The remarks led the Illinois senator to make an historic speech about race, among other sensitive things, that did quite go so far as distancing the candidate from the reverend. The issue underscores that a politician's religious experience, if not also direct practice, has been attractive fodder for public scrutiny at least since a Roman Catholic was elected to the highest office of the land over four decades ago. But what sho...