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For the third time in this campaign, Senator
Barack Obama stood poised to knock out Senator

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Hillary Clinton and lock up the democratic
presidential nomination.

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And yesterday in Pennsylvania, Senator Clinton
scored a third crucial and convincing victory.

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Is this long campaign too divisive.
How should super delegates make outsiders may

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not understand that my involvement in this
year\'s American election campaign began 35

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years ago in a far away place in the Sinai
Desert.

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It was during the 1973 war in the Middle East
growing up in Israel.

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Your life is always punctuated by war.
But this was the first one I fought in

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here in the desert.

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I was consumed by the question of what got me
here.

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I felt it was my country\'s intoxication with
the territories.

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Israel had occupied only six years earlier in
the 1967 war.

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The obsessive mixing of Bible with politics.

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If I get out of here alive, I told myself I\'m
leaving this country

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tax.
The rich America was my

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safe haven.
A nation founded on the separation of church

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and state, a principle enshrined in the
American Constitution.

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It said that talent # one is on fire.

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Almost 30 years later, I witnessed thousands
being incinerated by religious hatred right

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outside my office window.

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Suddenly I felt everything I\'d fled from was
closing in on me

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by coming to America.
I thought I was starting a new chapter in my

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life where my Children would have a better
start than me after September 11th.

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I wondered if I was wrong First, there was the
war on terror and

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then the 2008 election campaign.

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Do you think that God takes sides in a war?
For example,

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in the war on terror?
Is God on the side of U S troops?

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Would you say to me it\'s pretty simple in the
beginning, God created the heavens and the

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earth freedom requires religion just as
religion requires freedom.

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My faith has given me the confidence to make
decisions that were right for

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me, whether anybody else agreed with me or not,
religion is a foundation.

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We are a nation under God.

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The United States of America is a Christian
nation.

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I believe there is a God just political
rhetoric or my personal nightmare.

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Back to haunt me.

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I had to see for myself

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Will be approximately 31 minutes four watch one.

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Instead of following the candidates.
I decided to cover the presidential campaign by

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following the religious activists who support
them.

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I find a growing mix of faith and politics,
both mystifying and troubling.

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I want to entangle it.

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My mother was pregnant when she came to
Waterloo and I was born here.

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So I actually never knew my real father, but I
still had this relationship where I talked to

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God and I talked to Jesus.
So as a child, I took him as my father.

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Oh, well, see, you can register right at the
caucus.

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And the caucus is, um, that\'s the step to get
him on the ballot.

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Are you supporting Senator Obama?

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It\'s two days before the Iowa caucus.
And Reverend Sinister is spending every hour

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calling potential voters to get them to the
ballot box.

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So we need as many folks out tomorrow night,
you know,

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in order for him to be on the ballot in
November, we thank you Lord.

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As we stand in the gap for the injustice, I\'ve
always had a love

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for the underdog or people that seem like that
they, we\'re unloved.

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I felt that I had a gift to love the unlovable
and you in the name of Jesus Father.

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We thank you and we praise you right now, Lord,
even to have this freedom of speech.

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Lord, we thank you for that to be able to stand
even to have a vote as we\'re about to go into

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caucus and things like that in the days leading
up to the caucus.

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Reverend Sinister transformed her church into
an improvised voter registration center

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and these are not regular parishioners but new
voters in the first row sit

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Obama\'s volunteers waiting to register them.
Take it light.

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It\'s not an accident that we\'re all here.
We\'re all from different parts of the country.

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We come from all different parts of the world.
It\'s not an accident.

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It\'s not a coincidence.
We believe in the same candidate.

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So please come those that are supporting
Senator Obama because I do

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believe he\'s a cyrus that God has anointed him
for this for such a time as this.

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Oh, yes, I\'m excited.

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This is just history being made. Hallelujah.

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This is my pin women for Obama.

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Biblically, I believe that you can\'t separate
your politics from your

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faith.
My Sunday values must determine how I vote on

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Tuesday.

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Help me welcome the next president of the
United States.

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My husband,

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how\'s it going?
Waterland?

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You know, I noticed that uh as we started
improving in the polls,

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suddenly people said, well, you know what?
He may be inspiring,

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but this is what folks said.
He\'s not ready because he hasn\'t been in

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Washington long enough.
But I\'ll tell you what you didn\'t buy that

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because you understood that the biggest gamble
would be to get the same old folks to do the

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same old thing over and over and over again and
somehow think we get something different.

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It\'s a done deal.
He\'s got, he\'s the next president.

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It\'s a done deal.

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This is a divine appointment that it\'s

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just divine appointment that um that actually
he has been called to the Kingdom for such a

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time as this and we are going to realize that
time and that is awesome.

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I think we make a mistake when we fail to
acknowledge the power of faith in people\'s

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lives in the lives of the American people.
Americans are religious people.

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90% of us believe in God.

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90% that really shocks me.

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I find reverend sinister describing Obama as
having a divine appointment somehow troubling.

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So I turned to the best person I know who can
help me to navigate this uncharted territory of

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faith.
So how do you see the candidacy of Obama

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in terms of fusing religion and politics?
I think Obama comes out of this long tradition

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of African American religion and politics,
which really were inseparable and have been for

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most of American history for very good
historical reasons or in this case,

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very bad historical reasons.

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Traditionally, historically, the only way to
exercise leadership within the African American

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community was to be a minister

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within the African American community.
There is no sharp or clean distinction or

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separation between religious rhetoric and
religious ideas and social action or social

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ideas.

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If you go to black churches, anywhere in
America, you\'ll see that the pastor really

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takes responsibility for his congregation or
for her congregation.

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This is the individual who is responsible for
the social welfare of his or her

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congregation.
And by extension, the broader community,

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the church in which I grew up served as a
social center.

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The church was a meeting place for health
information.

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When we got our immunization shots, the church
was a place that we got that because you

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didn\'t have clinics.
So we came there for health information,

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for education, for social activities and for
political

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uh awareness, political issues.
It saddens me what\'s

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happening in our world in our political process
even today when there\'s so much back

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biting and tattling.
When there\'s a cry, the cry from our hearts

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from our souls.

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There\'s a crime for us to be unified as a
people, as a

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nation, as a world.
Listening to Reverend West,

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I hear echos from other times and places.

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I remember this kind of oratory from my school
days in

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Israel.
We gathered around the record player in English

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club to listen in awe to historic speeches.

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None more inspiring than this one one day right
there in Alabama,

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little black boys and black girls will be able
to join hands with little white boys and white

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girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today

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we learned about his march in Selma, Alabama,
but no one ever explained to us why the

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headquarters of the local civil rights movement
was a church.

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The long anticipated freedom march from Selma
to Alabama\'s capital of Montgomery finally gets

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underway.
As Dr Martin Luther King addresses the crowd at

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the starting point.
I\'m here to tell you tonight that the

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businessmen, the mayor of this city, the police

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commissioner of this city and everybody in the
white power structure of this city

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must take a responsibility for everything that
Jim Clark does.

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How come this church has become such an
important political center?

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Have to understand at that time, as African
American, we didn\'t have major uh

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buildings where crowds of people could come.
So this church,

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the church was the major place that were owned
by black people that were controlled by black

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people.
So therefore, it was our only safe haven.

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The church was what Martin Luther King did.
Holding up two very powerful

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documents, the constitution on one hand and the
Bible on the other and calling

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America to look at itself through these lenses.

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For the first time in my life, I saw God as a
Liberator.

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The power of those who had sacrificed.
What I was connected

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to was uh I think about the time that I was in
jail

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that we went to jail and, and people who give
up their money,

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little money, people who

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uh huh ah mortgage their land

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so that we could get out of jail.

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It was social, it was political and it was
spiritual.

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Some folks are willing to march across the
bridge and so they got together and

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Barack Obama Jr was born.

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So don\'t tell me I don\'t have a claim on some
Alabama.

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Don\'t tell me I\'m not coming home when I come
to Selma,

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Alabama, I\'m here because somebody must for
free because

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y\'all sacrifice for me.

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I stand on the shoulders of Jack Democratic
presidential contender Barack Obama.

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Today defended his recent curse exchanges with
rival Hillary Clinton saying her campaign\'s

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disregard for the truth left him no choice but
to strike back music.

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So here we are on the night of the first
primary of this election.

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What is at stake here for Barack Obama?

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I think he\'s got a tough, tough assignment.
You have this African American who

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is really an outsider in many ways, outsider to
American society because he\'s a minority

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outsider because he\'s relatively new fresh
member of the Senate and he\'s running really as

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a kind of redeemer candidate.
It seems to me, I think there\'s no question

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that, that Obama is certainly in the, in the
tradition of Martin Luther King and,

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and sees himself very much in that tradition.
Uh King made in many ways,

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made possible the candidacy of Barack Obama for
the presidency.

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Our precinct is Logan middle school and we
believe that\'s about Obama\'s.

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We believe that we have when I look at Obama,
I\'m not voting from him because he\'s a black

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man.
I\'m not voting for him because from the United

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Church of Christ, I\'m voting for him because
his values match my values as

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they come in.
They sign in those that have caucused before

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they sign in on one table, the ones that have
never caucused,

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sign in on another table, but then they circle
who they are supporting.

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I am going to support.
Oh, man, I\'m gonna stay in that corner.

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Obama\'s corner is full and they had to bring
out some more tables because there\'s not enough

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room.
It\'s looking good already.

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We\'ve got 112 for Obama.
We\'ve got 25 for Hillary

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Barack Obama.

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A young man in his mid 40s has now won the Iowa
caucuses and he\'s about to speak to his

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supporters.
They said this day would never come.

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They said this country was too divided, too
disillusioned to ever come

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together around a common purpose.

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But on this January night, you have done what
the cynics said.

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We couldn\'t do.

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I think any politician who sets himself up in a
kind of prophetic role takes upon himself an

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additional burden.
I think in many ways that the challenge facing

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Barack Obama is even greater than that facing
Martin Luther King,

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Jr Martin Luther King was really an
inspirational figure and an inspirational

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figure of extraordinary dimensions.
He was able to mobilize and galvanize the

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entire civil rights movement.

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Barack Obama faces the challenge of not only
inspiring and mobilizing this movement but

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making it happen even late at night in our
empty

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hotel.
It is impossible not to feel the sense of

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history.
Will it work for Obama to cast himself in this

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prophetic role and survive the grueling
campaign ahead?

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He\'s gonna go all the way he will be the next
president of the United States.

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You say, because you\'re a woman of faith
because, you know,

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probably a little bit of both.
I have a keen discernment for the hugs.

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I think he\'s waiting for that hug.
It was really nice.

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Yes, I enjoyed this.
This is wonderful.

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Yes, absolutely. Yes.

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Love you, love you.

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Choose hope over fear.

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We are heading for New Hampshire.
The next electoral battleground

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on the Democratic side, there is a real drama,
the visionary from the mold of the

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African American church or the safe end of
realpolitik on

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the Republican side, the big question is who
will win the conservative Christian

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vote for my improvised

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office in our cramped van.

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I see religion discussed endlessly on the
internet particularly because last night,

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Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister won
in Iowa.

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However, in our rest stops, it is not a major
issue for people.

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I want to know if I could ask you a few
questions, religion and politics.

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I don\'t,

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I don\'t think of religion with the candidates
that much,

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you know, just what they stand for, what they
believe in.

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How do you think faith impacts your choice of
candidate?

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It really that, that doesn\'t play a part as far
as I\'m concerned about mine either.

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I that\'s completely, you know, I don\'t worry
about that at all.

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So am I wrong to focus on religion, politics on
the surface?

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It seems so Senator mccain, probably the least
overtly religious candidate is now leading in

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the polls in New Hampshire and certainly the
national

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media want to be able to tell the mccain
comeback story because it will be a whale of a

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tale.
What will Senator mccain need to do to win the

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conservative Christian vote?
So here, obviously,

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people have been making rally signs, Maureen
Mooney, the new Hampshire State representative

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volunteered to energize the Catholic vote for
mccain mccain is my hero.

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That\'s a great one to and this here is the war
room.

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This is where it all happens.

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You can see we\'ve got several people here
nailing down the specifics on policy and the

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details of the campaign and so forth.

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I\'ve always been interested in politics even
when I was a very little girl.

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In fact, on my five year old birthday cake, I
asked for a picture of Ronald Reagan on that

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birthday cake.
While most of my friends in school,

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we\'re asking for ponies and rainbows.
I wanted Ronald Reagan on mine.

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Hi.
This message is for joy.

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My name is Maureen and I\'m a volunteer with
John mccain For president in 2008.

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When I choose a candidate.
There are two things that I\'m very concerned

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about.
Are they conservative enough?

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What candidate can balance my core beliefs as a
Catholic, as a Republican

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with electability?

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I think I met Maureen in 2004.
She was the Catholic activist.

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I was the evangelical activists and our job was
to charge the churches to vote.

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And so at that moment it really took off.
We had a great response from Catholics who were

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so thankful that we were showing them the
contrasted record between the two candidates.

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And additionally, the evangelicals did the same
thing I felt the spirit saying to me,

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you\'re not giving my message out there.

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And you know, I was like, you\'re not giving the
message that I need you to,

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to, to share.
And that was the pro life issue and the,

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and the moral and we abort babies here in this
nation on the average of 5000 week,

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5000 week.
That\'s a 9 11 a week.

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You called me today and asked me what John
mccain\'s religion is where he worships.

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Yeah, actually he belongs to a, he worships at
a Baptist church in Arizona

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and I know that he puts down episcopal on paper.
So, yeah,

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he\'s very, very active in his parish.
His Baptist parish in Arizona,

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we\'re not told in our churches where the
candidates stand on the issues where the

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candidates stand on abortion.
Where do they stand on marriage?

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Where do they stand on cloning and other issues?
That question our ethical beliefs and our

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ethics.
It\'s important to have supporters of individual

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candidates work on getting the message out
because our churches,

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our Catholic churches at least don\'t do it

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when I came here in 1970 for, I mean, how come
religion has become such a big deal?

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And in this particular campaign more than I
ever remember.

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Well, I think you came at precisely the moment
that was the turning point and that was the

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Watergate scandal and the resignation of
Richard Nixon.

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I think what I argue in this new book is that
John Kennedy gave his famous speech at the Rice

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Hotel in Houston on September 12th, 1960 in
which he told voters effectively disregard my

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faith.
When you go into the voting booth,

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I believe in an America where the separation of
church and state is absolute where no Catholic

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prelate would tell the president, should he be
Catholic?

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How to act?
And no protestant minister would tell his

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parishioners for whom to vote when no church or
church school is granted any public

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funds or political preference and where no man
is denied public office merely

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because his religion differs from the president
who might appoint him.

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I am not the Catholic candidate for president.

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I am the Democratic Party\'s candidate for
president who happens also to be a Catholic.

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It was a wonderful speech, a very effective
speech.

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And I would argue that it was so effective that
what I call the Kennedy paradigm of voter

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indifference toward a candidate\'s faith really
prevailed in the 1960 election again in

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64, 68, 72.
And it wasn\'t until 1970 for that,

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that begins to fall apart and it falls apart
precisely because of Richard Nixon\'s

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venality.

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I have never obstructed justice.
People have gotta know whether or not their

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president is a crook.

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Well, I\'m not a crook, Richard Nixon\'s
corruption.

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The whole culture of corruption that became
synonymous with the Nixon administration

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ultimately destroyed what I call the Kennedy
paradigm.

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I shall resign the presidency effective at noon
tomorrow.

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Vice President Ford will be sworn in as
president at that hour in this office.

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And so what you had two years later and I\'m
sure you remember very well being here in the

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country for only two years.
You had this obscure governor of Georgia,

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one term governor of Georgia comes out of
political, nowhere,

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an outsider to Washington and he begins to
speak the language of morality.

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And for him, of course, the language of
morality was the language of faith.

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President Carter mentioned that he was a born
again Christian and this introduced a new

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concept into the American political arena.
The Christian life,

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the one who accepts Christ, his savior is a
transformed person.

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That it\'s an all changing situation,

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the poor, the aged, the weak, the afflicted
must be treated

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with respect and compassion and with love.

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Now, I\'ve spoken a lot of times this year about
love, but love must be

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aggressively translated into simple justice.

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Thank you. Yeah.

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When I was a child growing up in planes in the
1930s and 40s,

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it was just a very close knit community.

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The church was the center of everything we did
in planes when I was growing up,

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religion was a integral part of our plains
community.

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This is the cultural roots that helped to shape
Jimmy Carter,

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the church and the school that\'s Jimmy Carter
holding the United States

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flag.
These are some of his classmates were out at

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the Carter, what\'s now known as the Carter
Boyhood Farm.

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And that happens to be the first lady of the
land, Rosalynn Carter and,

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and Jimmy\'s sister Ruth Time was right for it.
We were back to country

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roads and he represented things that people
were hungry for at that particular time.

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Oh, maybe they liked having a peanut farmer
from a small town

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was appealing to them.
Um, well, I guess they had seen other type

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politics that hadn\'t worked and maybe they
thought this would the

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disgrace of Watergate and the embarrassment of
the C I A revelations could have been

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avoided.
I want a government as good as the American

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people.
He said I will never knowingly lie to you.

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And after having endured years and years of
Nixon\'s lies,

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Americans were ready for it.

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So, Carter reintroduces this language of faith
into American politics in the 1976

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campaign and we\'ve been dealing with it ever
since, live from New Hampshire tonight where it

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is the day of voting in the first America
primary last week in Iowa Caucus here,

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the primary for the Republicans.
They still don\'t seem to know quite who to

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choose.
Very close.

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Indeed, John McCain Mitt Romney splitting the
vote with less than 2% to.

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I find it ironic that a Democrat re introduced
religion into American political life.

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And yet 30 years later it\'s the hallmark of
today\'s Republican Party.

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Lots of coffee. Right.

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I\'ve been standing at these polls before with a
cup of coffee six a.m.

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in the morning and it\'s cold, it\'s cold on a
fall day.

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So I really commend you guys for what you\'re
doing.

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I just wanted to charge people to vote.
The issues are extremely important where our

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country is morally.

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It was very disturbing for me to see some
pictures of aborted babies.

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Uh, and then to find out that babies that were
being aborted,

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their body parts were being sold on the black
market.

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There was, there were, I mean, in the black
market of pornography or in the underground of

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pornography and that issue and how those things
are just decaying our nation.

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The times have changed a lot since 1976.
Did you hear about abortion during that

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campaign?
The issues of abortion and homosexuality?

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No, they were not, uh, spoken of from the
pulpit.

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I guess people maybe privately had their own
feelings about them.

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They may be read about them, but it was not an
issue that Divided us all that was promoted

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one way or the other.
From the pulpit.

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Abortals was not an issue when Carter ran in
1976.

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It was for Catholics, but that\'s really all the
only people interested in and the religious

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right did not organized into a political force
until later

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in the 19 seventies.
Now I call this the abortion myth.

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The abortion myth is the fiction that is
perpetrated by leaders of the religious right

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that that movement began in direct response to
Roe V Wade decision in 1973.

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Give me a chance.

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Well, before the Roe V Wade ruling, the
Southern Baptist convention stronghold of

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conservativism passed a resolution calling for
the legalization of abortion.

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They reaffirmed that resolution again in 1970
for and in

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1976, it was actually in 1971 2

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years before Roe V Wade, that the Southern
Baptist Convention resolved to allow the

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possibility of abortion under such conditions
as rape,

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incest or damage to the emotional and mental
health of the mother.

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It was the pivotal role of abortion in this
election that drove me to seek out the

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influential conservative political activists
who mobilized evangelicals around abortion

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something they had been previously reluctant to
do.

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He co founded one of the first evangelical
political lobby groups,

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the moral majority, the evangelicals and
fundamentalists at that

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time had a ghetto ish attitude.
Uh

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Their attitude was, well, we\'re gonna teach our
kids differently and they\'re not gonna get

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involved in that.

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But that would change because of a series of
court rulings starting in June 1971 in this

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district court in Washington DC and followed by
federal legislation

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attempting to force desegregation on private
Christian schools.

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Suddenly evangelicals failed that the state was
interfering in their lives.

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Well, they became enraged at this and I
explained to them

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that this is why we oppose the government, uh
government

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interference and they finally got it and they
understood that they could not

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separate themselves and uh continue as they had
been.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Once they got involved in the political process,
the evangelicals and fundamentalists

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then took up the right to life issue.
People think that it was abortion and

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school prayer and the Equal rights amendment.
No, it was not.

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We could not get them involved based on those
issues, but we got them involved when it

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meant they were affected.

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Mm hmm.
I fear a little bit for the moral fiber in

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this nation.
You know, the social conservative issues.

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You know, and how are we reaching out to those
young kids?

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What example?

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I worry about what they see what they hear,
what they think.

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So, according to you, abortion is really a
political tool.

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If you like, why am I overstating the case?
No, you\'re not overstating.

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The abortion was a political tool.
No, I think it\'s,

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it is true.
I think it\'s undeniable that a lot of

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evangelicals have come to be very concerned
about the abortion issue and many of them,

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most of them very sincerely concerned.
So, but abortion began as a political tool.

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There\'s no question about that.
Religious belief is a tremendous motivating

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factor.
If people think that their religion is being

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attacked, if their beliefs are being challenged,
uh if society

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wants to prevent them from worshiping God as
they wish,

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uh there is no greater mobilization factor in
the

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entire country In 1999.
A

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year before his first bid for the White House,
John McCain told the San Francisco Chronicle

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that he did not see a need in the near future
to overturn roe v wade.

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He repeated his position on CNN.

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We all know and it\'s obvious that if we
repealed Roe V Wade tomorrow,

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thousands of young American women would be
performing illegal and dangerous operations

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in 2008 is a front runner in the South Carolina
primary.

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The senator said something quite different.
How do you feel about?

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I do not support Roe V Wade should be
overturned.

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Here\'s the dilemma we come into.
If the Republican Party nominates somebody who

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doesn\'t, doesn\'t conform their views with the
platform of the Republican party,

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which is a pro life platform, then we\'re going
to have a very difficult time selling that

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candidate.
And here\'s the reason we have to simultaneously

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in the general election, sell that candidate to
the base of our party who\'s very much in line

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with our platform, very much in line with pro
life views and so forth.

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Simultaneously sell that candidate to the base
and independent voters and it can\'t be done

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going into a general election, you have to have
the base behind you and the base nine times out

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of 10 is a pro life conservative Primary day,
January

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eight, In New Hampshire, the whole nation is
watching the whole world is watching to see who

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New Hampshire chooses to represent us in the
general election.

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The benefit of getting to the polling location
early as they get the prime spot to poll stand.

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So as you can see, the McCain people here have
the prime real estate so we can really get eye

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contact with the voters right from the get go
as soon as they\'re walking in.

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Hi there, John mccain is an exceptional
candidate.

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The man is on fire right now and I think that\'s
a real good testament as to what the people of

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New Hampshire and the people of the country are
seeing and what they\'re seeing is consistency

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and people feel so much more comfortable with a
consistent conservative that they know will not

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let them down that they know is reliable and
there won\'t be any surprises once he\'s elected

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president.
No,

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Dana Bash, you\'ve been covering his campaign.
There was no surrender.

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He used that word.
He absolutely refused to surrender.

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It\'s important to keep reminding our viewers
just a few months ago,

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he was basically left as a goner in the
Republican race within an hour of the poll

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closing, an enormous crowd is gathering in
anticipation of mccain\'s victory.

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It\'s a very happy as a nation because clearly
the most qualified,

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the most experienced and the best candidate to
lead this country has won the state of New

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Hampshire in the first in the nation primary.
And we\'re very,

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very happy about Arizona, Senator John mccain.

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Unnoticed by the media was Senator mccain\'s
ongoing relationship with a controversial

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pastor mccain was banking on his support to
shore up the evangelical vote.

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Pam claims that she was the one who helped to
seal the deal.

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I was instrumental in getting the clergy
together.

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We had 96 pastors, clergy, ministry leaders
that came to hear pastor Hagee

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regarding Christians United for Israel.

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And through that, pastor Hagee personally
endorsed

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Senator mccain.
Ladies and gentlemen, is my privilege to

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introduce to you the next president of the
United States,

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John mccain.
I\'m very honored by pastor John Hagee\'s

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endorsement today.
He has been the staunchest leader of our

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Christian evangelical movement in many areas,
but especially most,

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especially his close ties and advocacy for the
freedom and independence of the state of Israel.

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The evangelical support of Israel isn\'t just
political.

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The role Israel plays in the Bible, especially
in the New Testament.

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Prophecy is central to their faith.

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This is what Pastor Hagee tapped into two years
ago when he created Coffee Christians United

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for Israel, the largest organized pro Israel
evangelical lobby.

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It is a mark of coffee\'s political muscle that
senior Washington

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Figures attended its annual conference in the
Capitol last July among them,

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Senator John mccain, my friends, the state of
Israel has never needed your support and your

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hopes and your prayers the way they need it
today.

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And God bless you.
God bless you for your commitment.

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Because my friends, if we fail in Israel, if we
fail in Israel,

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where will we succeed?

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We have gathered here tonight as Christians and
Jews to express our solidarity with the state

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of Israel and the Jewish people around the
world.

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You can either be a friend of Israel and please
the Lord or an enemy of Israel and offend the

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Lord, but you cannot be both Israel.
You are not alone.

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Okay,

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John Hagee\'s message is being broadcast on over
200 television and radio stations across the

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country.
His views are widespread.

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I\'ll never forget that

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millions of evangelical Christians believe the
Bible is the literal word of God.

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So they have an obligation to support Israel
unconditionally after leaving Iowa.

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I hear more of that at my next stop from cliff
and Donna Rice in Valparaiso,

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Indiana.
God has chosen the Hebrew race, the nation as

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his elect.
He wanted to use those people to show forth

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what a Godly life and a Godly nation can do and
how they\'ll be blessed and how he\'ll lift them

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up and prosper them and all that God lifted up
the United States because of that faith that we

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had in the same way that He wanted to lift up
Israel.

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I had a similar explanation.
Hundreds of miles away from this group of

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conservative voters in Parma Ohio. Right.

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There are only two nations that are founded on
religious principles and that\'s Israel in the

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United States.
My values are based on biblical values that

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stay in the Bible in Isaiah says, those who
bless Israel will be blessed,

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those who curse Israel will be cursed.
Therefore, if I believe and I love my country

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and I want my country to be blessed by the, the
living Almighty God,

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then I have to start side with Israel no matter
what.

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As Christians, we support Israel because God
gave Abraham Isaac and Jacob the title deed to

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the promised land with an eternal covenant.
The land in Israel has belonged to the seed of

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Abraham Isaac and Jacob from the dawning of
creation and has never ever belonged to the

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Palestinian people.

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God might have given the land to Abraham Isaac
and Jacob,

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but it was their successor, Joshua who occupied
it and subjugated its inhabitants.

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We Israeli soldiers jokingly called ourselves
the Joshua army.

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That was my first taste of a divine promise can
be used to justify political

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reality.

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I spent most of my military service here not
too far from where Joshua supposedly crossed

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the river into the holy land.

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More than 3000 years later, it was Palestinian
guerrillas who were crossing trying to sneak

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back home.
My job in the New army of Joshua was to chase

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him down and killed them.

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For me.
As an 18 year old recruit, a literal

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interpretation of the Bible became indelibly
linked to bloodshed.

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Many evangelical Christians consider my
military service here and the entire Israeli

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army presence on the West Bank as part of God\'s
plan for the Jewish people.

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The struggle to reclaim the promised land.

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Israel\'s large settlement project has been
supported and partially funded by contributions

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from Evangelical Christians in the United
States.

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John Hagee\'s ministries contributed this year
alone

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$100,000 to the elementary school.
In disgust,

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Etzion settlement.

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I\'m Israel Jose who meet Mama\'s

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millions of evangelical Christians believe that
the gathering of Jewish exiles,

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the establishment of the state of Israel and
settlement are signs that Herald the return of

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Jesus Christ, but he will return.
They believe only after a horrible battle,

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the war to end all wars.

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They flock here to be shown the ruins of this
ancient fortress on the edge of the valley

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where they believe the battle will take place.

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We would have a very strong position from which
to make any attacking group pay a very,

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very high cost in blood to break through up the

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hill lies the focus of their visit though they
can see for themselves.

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The valley of Israel Armageddon destined to be
the last struggle between good and evil.

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That final battle is going to resolve itself
where God will judge all people and all nations.

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Someday, we read specifically from revelations.
They gather them together to the place called

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in Hebrew, Armageddon, Armageddon.

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This will be a staging area for great armies,
the armies of the world,

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the kings of the East and the north and the
west in the,

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in the future, the battle of Armageddon, the
final battle between good and evil.

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We are racing toward the end of time.
We are not living in the last days.

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We\'re not living in the last hours were living
in the last minutes.

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You say that can happen, wake up, it is
happening.

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There are people who are planning it right now

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and he believes it will be bloody.

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Millions will die in the battle.

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The survivors will be saved by the return of
Jesus Christ.

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Almost 55 million Christians believe in end
time prophecies.

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Although not all of them subscribe to this
apocalyptic version.

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I\'d love to believe that we\'re going to all die
old in our beds,

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but maybe not.
Those are all in time revelations and I have to

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believe them because I have to believe every
single word in the Bible or I had to throw the

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Bible out.
But tonight, we sure showed them what a

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comeback looks like.
Back on the campaign trail.

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Senator mccain\'s efforts to shore up the
evangelical votes have worked at least for now.

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He unexpectedly has become the Republican front
runner.

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Three months later, he chose to distance
himself from the controversial.

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Pastor Hagee has been hesitant to support
recent Democratic presidential

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candidates.
We are heading south to the next set of

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primaries on the radio.
They\'re playing golden oldies.

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The music takes me back to my naive
expectations about America,

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the secular land that would eradicate the
memories of my youth of religion and politics.

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So hopelessly meshed.

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I went to sleep in 2008 on my way to the next
primary and woke up in Kentucky.

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At the turn of the 19th century I wanted to see
for myself the very

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place where 200 years ago, the greatest
evangelical revival movement began

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a few reenactors gather here several times a
year to commemorate this event.

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They are by the pale echo of a huge revival
movement that began here in Kentucky in the

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early 19th century and spread like fire
throughout the frontier states.

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We have a historical place.
We have a place that for a few years at least

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was what we would consider the center of the
universe.

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Uh This is, this is where God chose to do a
marvelous work in this country.

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Uh I can, I can show you statistics that uh
between 1818 80 almost 10 million people

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were added to protestant evangelical churches.
That\'s more than were added to the church total.

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In the first eight centuries worldwide.

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Thousands flocked to meeting places like this
one camping outside for days.

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By the time it was over around the middle of
the century,

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millions were added to evangelical churches and
America has changed forever.

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I pray this in the name of Christ.
Would you,

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would you stand with me and let\'s sing uh awake
my soul and with the

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sun.
Lord, I my vows to the

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this first my sin.

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Did the movement have a political dimension?

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1800.
The summer that this revival broke out was in

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the middle of an election campaign.
A very controversial election campaign between

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Thomas Jefferson and John Adams

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dirty politics is not new.
There were sermons preached denouncing

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Jefferson an infidel talking about how he was
an atheist,

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how he denied the truth of the scriptures,
accusing him of being a racist because he did

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not believe in the common origin of all men
from Adam and Eve.

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Will you then my fellow citizens with all this
evidence?

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Vote for Mr Jefferson no sooner than stretch
forth my hand to place him at the head of the

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nation.
Let mine arms fall from my shoulder blade and

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mine arm be broken from the bone.

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Reverend William Lynn, a Dutch reformed church,
New York City Jefferson won but it was a

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close election and it was very controversial
and religion was certainly a part of the

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campaign.
You want the party or the stupid party.

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We pray every day.
Uh not only for new revival but for,

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for God to use us in any way he wants revival
is, is a personal thing.

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It\'s me becoming available for God to use me in
his service,

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political leaders, politicians don\'t change the
world.

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A revival can change the world change our
culture.

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It did, it happened in our history several
times.

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It won\'t come through politics.
Politicians are a reflection of where the

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culture is.
Jesus didn\'t change the world by seeking

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political power in the Roman Empire.
Nor did Paul nor did Peter.

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You don\'t find Paul and Peter calling on people
to run for office and,

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and seek to take over the Roman government.
That\'s not how the world was changed.

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I think you can make the case that
evangelicalism really set the social and

59:55.010 --> 59:59.710
political agenda for most of the 19th century.
Uh the campaign against slavery.

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The campaign for women\'s rights including
voting rights for women was very much inspired

01:00:05.450 --> 01:00:11.760
by evangelicalism, pres reform, the whole
common school movement known as public schools

01:00:11.760 --> 01:00:16.590
or public education today.
All that came out of the second great awakening.

01:00:16.590 --> 01:00:22.470
It was animated by this desire, this impulse to
create the kingdom of God.

01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:23.530
Here in America.

01:00:54.080 --> 01:00:59.320
A song is Luring Me South to Florida.
Actually not the song but the bass guitar

01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:06.050
player, the man who always told represents a
new fresh face for the evangelical movement.

01:01:07.560 --> 01:01:13.860
Mike Huckabee is an ordained Baptist minister
and a contender for the Republican nomination.

01:01:17.840 --> 01:01:23.460
He was built as a Republican Obama with a
prophetic message of hope and unity.

01:01:24.150 --> 01:01:30.400
An act of the evangelical progressive past I
was brought up as a Quaker.

01:01:30.410 --> 01:01:35.270
My heritage is Jewish.
I come from an entirely different demographic

01:01:35.280 --> 01:01:41.310
than the media has tried to adhere exclusively
to, to Mike Huckabee.

01:01:41.320 --> 01:01:47.530
Um, and I think that it\'s done a disservice to
this country to try to make him just a one

01:01:47.530 --> 01:01:50.640
trick pony type of a person and a candidate.

01:02:00.610 --> 01:02:05.450
I was a student at Berkeley in the sixties and
I was part of the Quaker group that was

01:02:05.450 --> 01:02:10.010
involved in the anti war movement.
I did things that seemed very anomalous to

01:02:10.010 --> 01:02:13.840
friends and family along the way.
So, for example,

01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:17.840
I came from a very democrat, deeply democratic
household.

01:02:17.860 --> 01:02:24.320
But ultimately, I voted for Gerald Ford when he
ran for president because I felt that what he

01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:29.380
brought that no other candidate did was a sense
of healing the country and that to me was a

01:02:29.380 --> 01:02:33.010
higher value and I feel the same way about Mike
Huckabee.

01:02:33.310 --> 01:02:34.600
All right, I\'m going to do a phone.

01:02:41.160 --> 01:02:45.280
But can his religious approach cross the deep
divisions in the country?

01:02:47.980 --> 01:02:51.760
Hi, my name is Anita Staver and I\'m an unpaid
volunteer for Mike Huckabee for president

01:02:51.760 --> 01:02:54.610
campaign in Florida.
Governor Huckabee is the only candidate running

01:02:54.610 --> 01:02:58.060
for president with a record of consistently
fighting for conservative values.

01:03:03.510 --> 01:03:07.460
I have opponents in this race who do not want
to change the constitution,

01:03:07.470 --> 01:03:11.410
but I believe it\'s a lot easier to change the
constitution than it would be to change the

01:03:11.410 --> 01:03:15.270
word of the living God and that\'s what we need
to do is to amend the constitution.

01:03:15.270 --> 01:03:18.770
So it\'s in God\'s standards rather than try to
change God\'s standards.

01:03:18.770 --> 01:03:23.410
So it lines up with some contemporary view of
how we treat each other and how we treat the

01:03:23.420 --> 01:03:27.040
family.
If a candidate doesn\'t understand the fact that

01:03:27.040 --> 01:03:31.660
marriage is between a man and a woman, then I
don\'t see how they can understand what\'s good

01:03:31.660 --> 01:03:32.900
for America\'s families.

01:03:33.350 --> 01:03:37.550
You know, we really have a cultural problem
that when we have candidates,

01:03:37.550 --> 01:03:43.610
they\'re saying, oh, it\'s okay for somebody to,
to have Sam and Larry get married and we\'re

01:03:43.610 --> 01:03:45.170
just not going to worry about that.
Well, it really,

01:03:45.170 --> 01:03:48.610
it impacts the whole culture.
Faith doesn\'t just influence me.

01:03:48.610 --> 01:03:49.900
It really defines me.

01:03:50.140 --> 01:03:54.380
I don\'t have to wake up every day wondering
what do I need to believe?

01:03:54.390 --> 01:03:59.960
Let us never sacrifice our principles for
anybody\'s politics.

01:03:59.970 --> 01:04:04.650
Not now.
He said he was a Christian originally,

01:04:04.660 --> 01:04:07.350
but then that\'s who he is and he\'s not hiding
from that.

01:04:07.350 --> 01:04:10.880
He never has.
So I\'m not afraid to put my faith out there in

01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:14.100
the public square with others and say, okay,
have your Koran have whatever you want,

01:04:14.110 --> 01:04:19.750
bring it to public school, read it during your
private time like the other students do and see

01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:22.420
which God is, is the real God.

01:04:24.110 --> 01:04:29.520
Despite promises to the country, Huckabee seems
to draw most of his support from highly

01:04:29.520 --> 01:04:34.800
committed evangelical Christian groups.
Like the one assembled by Anita.

01:04:35.990 --> 01:04:39.920
We\'re ashamed, we\'re shameful in our behavior.

01:04:40.580 --> 01:04:44.440
We ask that you forgive our sin and give us an
opportunity to correct it.

01:04:44.550 --> 01:04:49.910
Give us leaders, we just ask that there would
be unity throughout the entire before fanning

01:04:49.910 --> 01:04:53.130
out into the street to solicit votes for their
candidate.

01:04:53.300 --> 01:05:00.120
The group gathers for prayer but our hearts are
heavy at what\'s going on in this nation that

01:05:00.120 --> 01:05:04.350
we\'ve come to love.
That used to be one nation under God used to be

01:05:04.350 --> 01:05:07.760
a Christian nation used to be.
You couldn\'t even run for office unless you

01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:10.830
were a Christian lord and American needs a
healing.

01:05:11.460 --> 01:05:15.820
We\'re on the precipice of total disaster and
moral meltdown.

01:05:16.170 --> 01:05:22.310
You know, we are out here all supposedly
Christians, right?

01:05:22.920 --> 01:05:26.560
And we have a muzzle and warning.
We have a Mormon running,

01:05:26.560 --> 01:05:31.260
we have, you know, and it\'s like everything
okay.

01:05:32.110 --> 01:05:38.320
And we as Christians don\'t, we don\'t even bring
it to the people that that is not what God says.

01:05:38.370 --> 01:05:42.720
Our nation will change.
So his hack of his new message of unity,

01:05:42.730 --> 01:05:48.680
a different, more inclusive evangelical vision
that you will help.

01:05:48.690 --> 01:05:49.690
Not only move,

01:05:57.060 --> 01:06:03.450
Reverend Joel Hunter is pastor of Northland in
Orlando, a vast church with 12,000

01:06:03.450 --> 01:06:05.700
members is a Huckabee supporter.

01:06:06.370 --> 01:06:11.250
He\'s also considered part of the generation of
new leaders with a new message.

01:06:11.260 --> 01:06:16.350
One more in tune with the movement\'s roots in
the 19th century.

01:06:17.340 --> 01:06:24.160
There is not a time, I would rather be a
Christian than today because we are within

01:06:24.160 --> 01:06:27.100
sight of taking to the gospel to the whole
world.

01:06:27.100 --> 01:06:33.900
Finally, as happens in all maturing, you begin
to be less against things and start to

01:06:33.900 --> 01:06:37.650
wonder what your for.
Um And that\'s exactly what\'s happening right

01:06:37.650 --> 01:06:41.130
now.
There is emerging a constituency of evangelical

01:06:41.130 --> 01:06:47.340
Christians who want to be broader in the agenda,
who want to be more constructive in the tone,

01:06:47.350 --> 01:06:53.000
less strident, who want what is good for
everybody, not just what is good for the

01:06:53.010 --> 01:06:57.180
particular narrow religious group that we
happen to be in.

01:07:02.940 --> 01:07:04.180
Have you voted yet?

01:07:05.260 --> 01:07:08.040
Remember to vote today?
Remember to vote today.

01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:14.230
So where is the true echo of the 19th century
progressive evangelical message?

01:07:14.240 --> 01:07:19.020
You talked about the religious, right?
I don\'t think echoes any of the sentiments or

01:07:19.020 --> 01:07:22.670
any of the sensibilities from 19th century
evangelicalism.

01:07:22.680 --> 01:07:28.700
As I look at evangelicalism in the 19th century,
I see evangelicals very much concerned with

01:07:28.710 --> 01:07:33.570
those on the margins of society.
And I simply don\'t see that range of concerns

01:07:33.570 --> 01:07:37.970
reflected in the actions and the agenda of the
religious, right at the turn of the 21st

01:07:37.970 --> 01:07:41.410
century.
So my call to evangelicals of whom I number

01:07:41.410 --> 01:07:48.300
myself Is to reclaim the prophetic social
reform

01:07:48.300 --> 01:07:51.750
witness of evangelicalism from the 19th century.

01:07:53.600 --> 01:08:00.560
Behind me, Florida and a divided evangelical
movement ahead in South Carolina and a

01:08:00.560 --> 01:08:06.530
divided Democratic Party.
It is a crucial battleground for Barack Obama.

01:08:06.700 --> 01:08:12.320
He needs to demonstrate that he can win a
sudden state and beat Hillary Clinton without

01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:17.700
compromising his image as the man who has
restored faith based values to his party\'s

01:08:17.700 --> 01:08:22.000
agenda.
We are at a defining moment in our history.

01:08:22.010 --> 01:08:28.220
Our nation is at war and our economy is
increasingly in shambles.

01:08:28.260 --> 01:08:33.070
I offer a lifetime of experience and proven
results.

01:08:33.080 --> 01:08:36.210
What\'s lacking right now is not good ideas.

01:08:36.660 --> 01:08:42.850
The problem we have is that Washington has
become a place where good ideas go to die.

01:08:46.150 --> 01:08:53.080
Carvin Jones is an over worked foot soldier in
Obama\'s army of volunteers in the state.

01:09:03.430 --> 01:09:08.780
His task is to translate Obama\'s message of
unity and hope into votes.

01:09:09.510 --> 01:09:14.840
His target, barbershops and beauty salons,
beauty salons,

01:09:14.850 --> 01:09:18.000
hair salons or barbershops are gatherings for
African American people.

01:09:18.000 --> 01:09:19.600
It\'s not just a place where you go get your
hair cut,

01:09:19.600 --> 01:09:22.590
but it\'s a place you can do the issues, you can
get advice on things.

01:09:22.600 --> 01:09:27.200
And so the infiltration tactic on that is if
you can infuse the people there who work there

01:09:27.200 --> 01:09:30.740
and the people who are there, they\'ll go tell
other people and then it just starts a chain

01:09:30.740 --> 01:09:35.670
reaction and getting people on board um to
support that particular candidate

01:09:39.870 --> 01:09:44.130
exactly what I\'m gonna do whatever I can to
help him.

01:09:44.140 --> 01:09:50.700
I mean, as a beauty salon owner and we have a
14 chair salon here and I am the Secretary of

01:09:50.710 --> 01:09:55.590
the State of South Carolina.
So I have access to a lot of beauticians and

01:09:55.600 --> 01:09:59.480
cosmetologists and barbers, each barbershop, a
beauty shop,

01:09:59.490 --> 01:10:03.250
they have their own candidates.
You know, like we got different views in here,

01:10:03.250 --> 01:10:08.580
but mostly this is an, an Obama salon.
You know,

01:10:11.210 --> 01:10:15.490
him being a devout Christian has in a sense I
see the stability in his,

01:10:15.490 --> 01:10:20.070
in his being and I think that\'s because of his
faith without the faith part.

01:10:20.070 --> 01:10:22.760
I don\'t think, I don\'t know if he\'s some of the
attacks that he\'s had.

01:10:22.760 --> 01:10:26.200
I don\'t think he would have been able to
withstand those if he didn\'t have some

01:10:26.210 --> 01:10:28.520
connection to some kind of faith based
organization.

01:10:31.510 --> 01:10:34.070
Brenna Walker\'s an avid Clinton supporter.

01:10:34.790 --> 01:10:41.080
She likes Obama\'s charismatic style, but
believes Clinton\'s experience makes her the

01:10:41.090 --> 01:10:47.360
only candidate who can defeat the Republicans
in Anderson for the first time in 40 years,

01:10:48.670 --> 01:10:52.460
MS Lemons.
This is Brenna Walker and I\'m calling from the

01:10:52.460 --> 01:10:55.390
Hillary Clinton campaign.
I hope you\'re okay today.

01:10:55.400 --> 01:11:01.070
Oh, you voted for her already?
Oh, thank you so much.

01:11:01.080 --> 01:11:03.010
Okay, bye.

01:11:03.690 --> 01:11:08.580
I can see over the years, over the past 35
years that she has been a very strong advocate

01:11:08.590 --> 01:11:14.850
for the kind of values for family, Children,
for, for people in general that,

01:11:14.860 --> 01:11:21.440
that I hold as a Christian come in.
How are you were looking for an Obama

01:11:21.440 --> 01:11:23.260
sign?
An Obama sign?

01:11:23.270 --> 01:11:27.160
We want an Obama sign.
We want to advocate for Obama.

01:11:27.170 --> 01:11:30.770
The Hillary people have been here with lots of
signs, the Edwards people have been here with

01:11:30.770 --> 01:11:32.510
lots of signs.
I\'ll get you one.

01:11:32.510 --> 01:11:35.520
I have one in my car.
I\'ll get one for you.

01:11:35.530 --> 01:11:42.070
Yeah, I would love, I connect his politics

01:11:42.080 --> 01:11:49.060
to what was driving Martin Luther King as an
example, you know,

01:11:49.070 --> 01:11:55.100
uh to bring people together to transcend gender,
race

01:11:55.110 --> 01:11:56.940
ideology.

01:11:57.260 --> 01:12:02.950
I think that\'s, that\'s at the core of who he is.

01:12:03.300 --> 01:12:05.650
Gracie.
Pardon?

01:12:05.660 --> 01:12:10.830
Great timing.
Do you really want to get me started on this

01:12:10.830 --> 01:12:14.300
hope and this change?
You know, because I already asked now we have a

01:12:14.300 --> 01:12:18.310
young man who keep telling folks who is going
to be wonderful.

01:12:18.310 --> 01:12:22.690
He\'s going to be good, but he needs time to
season himself.

01:12:22.690 --> 01:12:26.120
He needs time to prepare himself, he needs time
to get ready.

01:12:26.860 --> 01:12:30.540
And as I said, when Hillary was here, she knows
where the bathrooms are.

01:12:30.550 --> 01:12:33.800
I think I\'ve told you that she knows where the
bathrooms are.

01:12:33.810 --> 01:12:40.040
She won\'t have to take my tax money to figure
out this lady can hit the ground running

01:12:40.050 --> 01:12:46.860
for many in the African American community here.
Barack Obama is a

01:12:46.860 --> 01:12:51.310
prophet but to defeat Hillary, he needs to be a
politician.

01:12:51.830 --> 01:12:55.370
So what is it a prophet or a politician?

01:12:56.320 --> 01:13:02.950
It\'s difficult to be a prophet and a politician.
Profits get killed.

01:13:04.730 --> 01:13:11.310
And the prophetic message the Barack

01:13:11.310 --> 01:13:17.960
Obama began with um is perhaps being killed

01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:22.250
off the more that he becomes a politician.
Now, let\'s talk about Ronald Reagan.

01:13:22.250 --> 01:13:27.790
What you just repeated here today is patently,
wait, you just not say anything about Ronald

01:13:27.790 --> 01:13:30.630
Reagan, you said two things you just talked
about admiring Ronald Reagan,

01:13:30.930 --> 01:13:37.920
talked about, talk about rock presented a
symbol of

01:13:37.930 --> 01:13:40.350
hope and bringing people together.

01:13:40.910 --> 01:13:47.780
Uh And the only way that they could stop, you
know,

01:13:47.790 --> 01:13:53.820
this movement was to bring him down.
I was fighting against those ideas when you

01:13:53.820 --> 01:13:59.770
were practicing law and representing your
contributor Rezko in his slum landlord business

01:13:59.770 --> 01:14:01.220
in inner city, Chicago.

01:14:02.570 --> 01:14:09.400
My hope is that he can maintain that

01:14:09.400 --> 01:14:16.100
core of himself as, as a profit.
It\'s very difficult to do in a political world.

01:14:22.680 --> 01:14:24.090
Thank you for being here tonight.

01:14:24.480 --> 01:14:29.930
Give us strength to make the right decisions
for this country.

01:14:31.720 --> 01:14:36.930
The leadership of the Democratic Party in town
is meeting to discuss strategy in a local

01:14:36.930 --> 01:14:43.890
restaurant in the Bible belt and we don\'t
usually start anything in

01:14:43.890 --> 01:14:50.550
this area without prayer first. Okay.
We prayed um this time we pray for the meal,

01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:54.300
but other times we prayed for the meeting that
it would go well.

01:14:54.310 --> 01:15:01.200
So that\'s just a thing that we do Here.
The fierce competition between Hillary and

01:15:01.200 --> 01:15:04.750
Obama.
The discussion about prophecy and politics is

01:15:04.750 --> 01:15:09.220
not just academic, there are votes in it for
the first time.

01:15:09.220 --> 01:15:12.970
In decades, the Democrats could win in this
area.

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In 1965, voting rights act was passed, the
Democrats led and Lyndon Johnson was the chief

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architect.
President Johnson addresses a joint session of

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Congress to push a voting rights bill aimed at
ending discrimination.

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And on the day after that, he was in the White
House depressed and his aide went to see him

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and said, Mr President, why are you depressed?
He said we\'ve just ceded the South to the

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Republican Party.

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1965, Lyndon Johnson. Yeah.

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And he called it correctly.

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The Republican Party became the party of the
South because of several factors.

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One of which was race, one of which was
economics and the other was religion.

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And so Ronald Reagan was the first to take
advantage of that Southern strategy of putting

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those together.

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They, they were doing it for political reasons.
I don\'t think Ronald Reagan was an active

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church going person.

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My name is David Woodard.
I\'ve been here for 23 years and I was teaching

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a class called parties and elections and I
thought I ought to learn a little bit about it.

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So I started running campaigns as a consultant
and that\'s where I found out about religion,

01:16:37.240 --> 01:16:43.350
politics because for Republican campaigns, you
better know something about religion because

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that\'s gonna be critical for forgetting
volunteers and getting people to vote.

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The Republicans held their primaries almost a
week before I came here and mccain won an

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important victory.
Why do we feel the way we do about mccain?

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I mean, he\'s a genuine war hero.
He\'s got a proven record.

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He\'s got a generally pro life stance on most of
his voting.

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What is it that, that upsets us that causes us
not to be real excited about it.

01:17:16.050 --> 01:17:21.620
I support mccain.
Don\'t get me wrong, but he\'s the only candidate

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that was in that whole group that you can say
he\'s generally this and I struggle with

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that.
I mean, there\'s nothing that there\'s nothing

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there to grab, hold and go.
All right.

01:17:34.070 --> 01:17:35.820
I like this guy.
I can rally around him.

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I can send him a check.
There\'s no problem there.

01:17:38.350 --> 01:17:44.250
The reason why mccain is in trouble is he has
not energized this evangelical base.

01:17:44.250 --> 01:17:47.210
I\'ll tell you something from running political
campaigns.

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You don\'t get people out to work for your
candidate because of their economic position

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because they\'re gonna practice, you know, give
you a tax cut or because they\'re gonna support

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war in Iraq.
People won\'t get out and work for your

01:17:58.830 --> 01:18:02.150
candidate on that.
But you tell them where you stand on abortion,

01:18:02.650 --> 01:18:06.940
gay marriage, you\'ll get people to volunteer at
your headquarters and come out and pass out

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legislative literature and walk in parades and
go walk neighborhoods on the social issues.

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That\'s why they get out in the street down the
street on the other issues.

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Back in January.
Mccain failed to excite evangelical base and

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the Democrats sensed a rare opportunity to
recapture power in November.

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We are fighting back.
But if they go up against the Republicans by

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themselves, Hillary or Obama, I\'m afraid, I\'m
afraid that it\'s gonna be just overpowered.

01:18:38.490 --> 01:18:40.710
Somebody\'s not gonna vote for Hillary because
she\'s a woman.

01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:43.940
Somebody\'s not gonna vote for Obama because
he\'s African American.

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Somebody wrote in that if I vote for Hillary,
then I\'m a racist.

01:18:48.850 --> 01:18:54.640
If I vote for Obama, then I\'m a sexist. Yeah.
So what do you do?

01:18:54.650 --> 01:18:57.510
That\'s what the question is going to be on
Saturday.

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Tell Kerby and seeing some momentum

01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:19.310
it was built as a Democratic unity party to
watch the primary results

01:19:26.720 --> 01:19:33.690
after his loss in New Hampshire, South Carolina
was crucial for Obama\'s candidacy as Reverend

01:19:33.690 --> 01:19:39.760
West put it.
Can the prophet defeat the politician by the

01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:44.090
time the polls closed.
CNN was already calling it for Obama.

01:19:54.830 --> 01:19:59.860
Here\'s the results for 69% of the vote in 35.57
for Barack,

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32.3 for Edwards, 31.8 for Hillary.
And that\'s just in Anderson County,

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Brenda.
That looks big boost for Obama.

01:20:09.770 --> 01:20:15.750
But I\'m sure being the man that he is, he has
not started counting his chicks.

01:20:20.960 --> 01:20:26.740
This is not a campaign, this is a movement just
as the civil rights movement was a movement.

01:20:26.750 --> 01:20:32.010
This is a movement that\'s going to change
America when you\'re on the side of unity.

01:20:33.260 --> 01:20:35.580
When you\'re inside of unity, you always win.

01:20:36.460 --> 01:20:42.270
You always win.
Divisiveness may have a short term

01:20:42.620 --> 01:20:45.680
victory, but divisiveness always loses.

01:20:49.340 --> 01:20:51.430
Thank you everybody.
Thank you tonight.

01:20:51.440 --> 01:20:56.900
The Senate\'s who believed that what began in
the snows of Iowa was just an illusion.

01:20:56.910 --> 01:21:03.710
Were told a different story by the good people
of South Carolina that which

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divides destroys life, that which seeks to
unify nurtures and gives life.

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That\'s where Obama\'s coming.

01:21:13.870 --> 01:21:20.620
See if she has one or if she was lost, I will

01:21:20.620 --> 01:21:25.680
still be gun ho about Hillary because it\'s not
over until the fat lady sings.

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But

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the fat lady is not waddling onto the political
stage yet.

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Even though the pundits predicted it would all
be over on February 5th,

01:21:43.230 --> 01:21:47.070
Super Tuesday.
It took Obama another four months to win the

01:21:47.070 --> 01:21:52.580
Democratic nomination. Okay. Yeah.

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Shed one as for myself after more than a month
in

01:22:13.630 --> 01:22:19.670
churches and with Christian religious activists,
I decide to spend Super Tuesday in a Tulsa

01:22:19.670 --> 01:22:25.130
Mosque.
The important thing is for me to hear your

01:22:25.130 --> 01:22:31.340
experiences living in the Bible belt belonging
to a minority.

01:22:31.350 --> 01:22:34.610
And what does that mean?
One time I was standing in the line at the

01:22:34.610 --> 01:22:40.320
pharmacy to pick up some medication.
And a woman comes by very hustled and bustled

01:22:40.320 --> 01:22:45.660
and said here I just want to give this to you
and she put a piece of paper in my hand and I

01:22:45.660 --> 01:22:49.210
said, oh, thank you very much without having
looked at it first.

01:22:49.210 --> 01:22:54.430
And as soon as I looked down, it\'s a little
booklet that talks all about how Jesus died for

01:22:54.430 --> 01:22:59.930
me and I should accept his blood.
And, and I was shocked because I was just there

01:22:59.930 --> 01:23:03.840
to pick up medication.
The America I signed up for is the Norman

01:23:03.840 --> 01:23:05.230
Rockwell America.

01:23:06.230 --> 01:23:10.630
I signed up for the big long cars and the nice
people and the,

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the quality and the justice and the freedom

01:23:19.880 --> 01:23:25.590
we\'re watching America become a theocracy and
honestly, I don\'t care what religion you\'re

01:23:25.590 --> 01:23:27.900
talking about.
I do not want to live in a theocracy.

01:23:27.970 --> 01:23:32.960
We were looking for a candidate that would
separate state from church and,

01:23:32.970 --> 01:23:36.490
and then don\'t judge American people by their
religion.

01:23:36.740 --> 01:23:40.050
Well, we\'re hearing Huckabee only, only he\'s
only courting the Christian,

01:23:40.710 --> 01:23:46.170
although there are conservatives within every
religion were watching mccain also trying to do,

01:23:46.170 --> 01:23:48.580
he\'s trying to prove he\'s more conservative
than anybody else.

01:23:48.580 --> 01:23:51.960
But in this day and age conservative means
Christian.

01:23:55.440 --> 01:24:01.140
September 11 was a pivotal point in time
because after September 11,

01:24:01.150 --> 01:24:07.960
the American Muslim community started seeing
quite a bit of discrimination and hate talk out

01:24:07.960 --> 01:24:14.740
in the stores in the mall when I wear the
headscarf to the airport and I get in line and

01:24:14.740 --> 01:24:20.720
you see the concern and the fear in people\'s
eyes and they see you getting on the plane.

01:24:20.730 --> 01:24:24.420
It makes me feel so uncomfortable because I
know they\'re uncomfortable.

01:24:31.680 --> 01:24:37.990
On September 11, Middle Eastern Turmoil came
crashing into New York and into my life

01:24:38.180 --> 01:24:41.340
invading what I thought was my safe haven.

01:24:48.440 --> 01:24:53.300
I saw it then and now as a fiery invitation to
a religious war.

01:24:56.460 --> 01:24:59.750
Okay.
Urgent, urgent.

01:25:09.150 --> 01:25:14.690
He took me over 4000 miles and five weeks on
the road to realize how religious this country

01:25:14.690 --> 01:25:17.700
has become and how profound is the change?

01:25:33.620 --> 01:25:38.060
Please come.
Those that are supporting Senator Obama because

01:25:38.060 --> 01:25:42.010
I do believe he\'s a cyrus that God has anointed
him.

01:25:42.020 --> 01:25:45.330
You know, there\'s a battle out there.
There\'s a spiritual war out there.

01:25:45.340 --> 01:25:51.170
This is not a campaign, this is a movement just
as the civil rights movement was a movement.

01:25:51.180 --> 01:25:53.910
This is a movement that\'s going to change
America.

01:25:53.920 --> 01:25:57.670
Political leaders, politicians don\'t change the
world.

01:25:57.680 --> 01:26:02.540
A revival can change.
The world were watching America become a

01:26:02.540 --> 01:26:05.210
theocracy.
I don\'t care what religion you\'re talking about.

01:26:05.220 --> 01:26:11.120
I do not want to live in a theocracy.
The left being very secular.

01:26:11.540 --> 01:26:14.650
Uh Many of them don\'t believe in God at all.

01:26:15.290 --> 01:26:21.740
Can\'t comprehend the motivating factor of
religious

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belief because they don\'t have it themselves.

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The journey began in the snows of Iowa long
before John mccain Barack Obama had been

01:26:37.310 --> 01:26:39.500
confirmed as presidential candidates.

01:26:40.500 --> 01:26:45.820
It began with promises of a new dawn in
American politics and it ends with the rumbling

01:26:46.010 --> 01:26:48.020
of decades old cultural wars

01:26:54.300 --> 01:26:59.600
and now driving back home to New York.
I worry that in an era where foreign militants

01:26:59.600 --> 01:27:02.830
would like nothing better than a holy war
against America,

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we can continue to treat this religious further
solely as a domestic issue.

01:27:22.650 --> 01:27:25.050
A dream continues to haunt me.

01:27:26.040 --> 01:27:28.960
I am back in the Jordan Valley in Israel.

01:27:29.180 --> 01:27:34.250
The place to which I came as an eager 18 year
old shape,

01:27:34.250 --> 01:27:36.950
a heroic tales of Holy Wars

01:27:43.450 --> 01:27:45.090
in the stillness of the desert.

01:27:45.510 --> 01:27:49.890
I can suddenly hear all the armies that stormed
these hills

01:27:53.160 --> 01:27:58.190
From the mythical conquest of Joshua, the
Romans Islam,

01:27:58.200 --> 01:28:02.660
the crusades, and then Islam again.
Until finally,

01:28:02.660 --> 01:28:07.290
the Israeli army conquered this desert in 1967.

01:28:12.580 --> 01:28:17.250
In the name of God, this country was built and
ruined so many times.

01:28:17.860 --> 01:28:22.240
Fusing religion and politics here led only to
destruction.

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So when I opened my eyes, I do not see a
biblical landscape anymore,

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but lessons from history, hidden into sand.