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The Miseducation of Barack Obama

By Troy Senik
Thursday, June 18 2009

For the first eight years of this decade, the American media seemed remarkably and aggressively secular. The press reviled George W. Bush, a Methodist president with a gift for evangelical acoustics, for his invocations of the Almighty. Based on the outcry when the 43rd president referenced a divine hand in human affairs, you would’ve thought Bush was calling for a dozen virgins to be sacrificed to the nearest volcano. But it turns out the media hang-up wasn’t with the fact that Bush was religious, per se. They simply thought he was praying to the wrong guy. Enter Barack Obama, a man…

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