It's more than balanced too!

Todd: you may have come to the wrong place with this request...sorry to say.

Endorse the right wing smears against Obama and you give credibility to the smears from the same wingnuts against Clinton. Build up the right wing smear machine and you will get hoisted on your own petard. The stuff they are throwing at Obama is meak compared to the trash cans full of slime they will be pitching at Hillary if they think she has a chance.

Obama can agree with his pastor and members of his congregation that Jesus Christ is his Lord and savior and cooperate on the good community work and spreading of the gospel without agreeing with the political views of individual church members or his ex-pastor.

I am sure Obama is grateful to Minister Wright for bringing him to Jesus at the same time as he takes exception to his personal political views.

As far as Obama's church, the UCC is a mainstream Protestant church Obama's home church is it's largest congregation.

The current U.S. Congress includes 10 UCC members -- five Republicans and five Democrats.

Five U.S. Senators are UCC:  Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Obama.

Five House seats are occupied by UCC members: Thelma Drake (R-Va.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Jim Ramstad (R-Minn.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.).

Other notable UCC members include New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D); former U.S. Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.); actress Lynn Redgrave; current U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall; Pulitzer-prize-winning newspaper columnists Connie Schultz (and wife of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio) and Leonard Pitts Jr.; and Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-prize-winning author of Gilead.

The Rev. Andrew Young former congressman, U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor is an ordained UCC minister, who began his Civil Rights activism working for the UCC.

The late Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the legendary social activist who became immortalized as the pastor in Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip, had ministerial standing in the UCC and served as pastor of the UCC's Riverside Church in New York.

You can add to that list Thomas Edison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Disney, Hubert Humphrey and 2 US Presidents.

I don't hear Liberal Catholic politicians being questioned on their commitment to a woman's right to choose, opposition to sexism and homophobia because of the comments and positions of some church clergy and church doctrine. I don't see Republicans being asked to answer for Falwells statements that 9/11 was God's punishment on America for homosexuality. They just say they don't agree with those positions and see the personal political views of church members as separate from the faith they share.

I'd gladly sign a petition denouncing Obama and Obama supporters' LIES against Hillary.

And one more time - here's the facts about the 60 Minutes interview....

>>>>Less than one second. That's how long it took Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to answer, "Of course not," to Steve Kroft's question on 60 Minutes about whether she thought Sen. Barack Obama was a Muslim. You can time it yourself by watching the clip at YouTube.

Still, that didn't stop MSNBC's Chris Matthews from complaining on-air last week that it took Clinton "the longest time" to answer Kroft's question.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/20080311 0002

There's no way I am signing this.

Don't you get that the fight is against Republicans and that this infight you are so happily celebrating is simply a distraction?

http://noratings.blogspot.com/

Right, here

such as?

We've only been attacking the MSM for years. Hell, blogs basically gained prominence because the media so utterly failed us in the run-up to the Iraq war (and before that, during the 2000 "with whom I'd rather drink a beer" election).

Perhaps I'm a little overly sensitive these days, but it seems that your comment is implying that Obama supporters trust Fox and other MSM outlets. I sincerely hope you don't consider your fellow left-blog members to be that incredibly naive. (If I've misunderstood the comment, then my apologies.)

It's like reading freerepublic.

You are defending this?

I agree.  

I have to agree with this.

Another person who obviously had their response ready without actually watching the video.

Please get a coffee, tee, or whatever you like and relax.

The MyDD Obama-hate echo chamber is not in any way representative of the USA. If it was, I would feel very sorry for this country.

I wouldn't normally agree with you, but props for this comment. You are absolutely right on the money and it's only going to get worse without pushback from Obama.

Yup. He needs to pull a Rove. Stop trying to hide him and speak directly to it. There's more than enough good deeds behind what this guy has done to demonstrate a good reason for Obama to support him despite his hardcore radical political views.

If he doesn't address this in a way that makes it clear what exactly he means by spiritual advisor, he's toasted.

Rezko is one I hope he keeps closed. Let them hammer away at that hard. There's not very much there, and it gives the moron wingnuts something to keep them busy, since they'll treat it just like Whitewater.

Meanwhile, McCain's lobbying ties are far more damning and easy to prove. That FCC crap alone is enough for Obama to nail him to the wall regarding ethics.

Start one.

http://www.gop.gov/web/guest/gopjobs