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Title: McCain Defends Christian Outreach Effort
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The Gaurdian
URL Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6428877,00.html
Published: Feb 20, 2007
Author: BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Post Date: 2007-02-20 21:13:47 by Eoghan
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VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is defending his outreach to conservative Christians, arguing that his effort is not political pandering to win the GOP nomination. McCain met privately Monday with religious broadcasters in Orlando, Fla., then answered questions about his appeal to conservatives in Vero Beach. In the 2000 campaign, McCain angered the party's right by calling evangelist leaders Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell ``agents of intolerance.'' Last spring, he spoke at Falwell's Liberty University although hard feelings still linger among some conservatives. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson has said he won't support McCain. ``Nobody accused me of courting and pandering to the liberals when I went to the New School,'' McCain told the crowd, a reference to the New York City school. ``What I have found out in my life, is that every time I have done something for political reasons and not the right reasons, I have paid a very heavy price for it - a big price.'' The Arizona senator said he is trying to reach out to all elements of the party. ``I don't know which part of the party is going to be more influential or not,'' McCain said. ``I've tried always in my political career to have a big tent party where a lot of people are welcome with differing views.'' Conservatives are a critical voting bloc in the GOP primaries. The Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition said after McCain's private meeting in Orlando that he helped repair damage with Christian conservatives. ``He recognized he cannot be president of the United States without reaching out to the evangelicals,'' Mahoney said. ``There definitely is an uneasy relationship between McCain and people of faith, but he is reaching out and he is breaking down those walls. He helped himself in that room tremendously today.'' ^--- WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will deliver the keynote address next month at the annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee that commemorates the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, organizers said Tuesday. Obama is scheduled to speak at a March 4 service at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, the site in Selma where marchers gathered in the historic protest that gave blacks across the South greater access to the ballot. Several dozen other members of Congress plan to attend, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Sam Walker, an event coordinator with the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, which sponsors the commemoration. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., who district includes Selma, asked Obama to participate and plans to hold a fundraiser for the Illinois senator. Davis and Obama met while attending Harvard Law School. The 1965 march helped spark passage of the Voting Rights Act, which allowed blacks to register across the South without the obstacles used by segregationists to limit their access to polling places. Club-swinging troopers and deputies beat and turned back marchers at the Edmund Pettus bridge at Selma on March 7, 1965, an attack that became known as ``Bloody Sunday'' and helped galvanize national support for the voting rights movement. With a federal court order clearing the way, the march to Montgomery was completed later that month.
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#1. To: Eoghan (#0)
Eff-you, John.
Truly the phoniest turd in the running...atleast with the Bride of Marx, we know she's serious and committed.
John McCain is a political whore.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain is defending his outreach to conservative Christians, arguing that his effort is not political pandering to win the GOP nomination.
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#3. To: Eoghan (#0)
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