Pandering? Sounds like Bush.
Obama Plan Would Expand Faith-Based Program
" The plan was met with praise from officials who crafted the Bush
administrationıs proposal, including John DiIulio, who in 2001 served as
the
director of Mr. Bushıs office on faith based initiatives.
³Senator Barack Obama has offered a principled, prudent, and
problem-solving vision for the future of community-serving partner****ps
involving religious nonprofit organizations,² Mr. DiIulio said in a
statement. ³He has focused admirably on those groups that supply vital
social services to people and communities in need. His plan reminds me of
much that was best in both then-Vice President Al Gore's and then-Texas
Governor George W. Bush's respective first speeches on the subject in
1999.²
My reading of the faith based program under Bush was that is was mostly
pandering.
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DiIulio is well known and while more principled than Bush nevertheless
is on a side I am not. I will try and rethink my positions
but at 76 it is awfully late to change. I just have little trust
of religion.
