Mr. Fish illustrated the unnatural combination of politics and religion perfectly in this week’s comic featuring a caricature of Barack Obama. Go read it now and then come back here.
Mr. Fish could make the same point with any of the candidates running for president. All he’d have to do is replace Obama with McCain and add statements made by James Agee, or replace him with Clinton and mention her former pastor who was recently convicted of molesting a seven-year-old girl or her membership in The Fellowship.
All the candidates would be well advised to lay off each others’ ties to religious figures and religious organizations. Counter attacks are too easy and, no matter how much the media chooses to focus on it, religion isn’t supposed to have anything to do with who we choose to be our president. What’s supposed to matter is what the candidates themselves say and do.
The real story isn’t that these candidates are Christians and attend churches. The real story is about how the media’s coverage is driven by race.
Read E. J. Dionne, Jr. today.
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