Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President Bush’s program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support their ability to hire and fire based on faith.
Or how about this... "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
But here we see the senator's pragmatism at work. Support for same-sex liberty (see below), balanced with a nod to the evangelicals. I don't like the faith-based crap, but if it helps to establish or restore civil liberties here, then okay. However, the gambit is, as Olbermann put it last night, that the senator risks being squeezed from both sides. Or as John Adams said, "The middle way is no way at all."