Six Video Roundup: Presidential candidates on faith
YouTube has become a major feature of our public policy landscape, so we wanted to take a look at how leading presidential candidates have used this web video world to spread their message on faith and public life. The videos below feature leading presidential candidates from both parties addressing the relationship between faith and politics. To limit the scope of this video roundup, I chose to limit it to the top three candidates of the two major parties.
I found it difficult to find video of Giuliani speaking directly about his faith. Interestingly I found plenty of videos by conservative Christians attacking his pro-choice position. The official videos by Romney and McCain show that they speak of faith in "me" terms (more personal narratives) whereas Edwards and Hillary get right into saying faith calls "us" to do for others. So for McCain and Romney primary synonyms for religion include character and principle and it's pretty clear that they are answering in relation to issues like terrorism or abortion. On the other hand both Clinton and Edwards translate faith directly to an application on poverty and health care. It seems that Obama tends to speak very directly about his own faith-based values - speaking of his secular upbringing and conversion and very broadly about the role of faith in solving social ills.
For more see Faith in Public Life's Must Read List of articles on these candidates.
John Edwards (official campaign speech)
United Methodist
Rudolph Giuliani
Roman Catholic
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John McCain (official ad)
Episcopalian
Barack Obama (official)
United Church of Christ
Mitt Romney (official + TV interview)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Hillary Clinton
United Methodist
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Posted by: Payday Loan | October 6, 2008 11:20 PM
High profile politicians, including Barack Obama, are seeking to limit the American peoples’ access to on-demand, short term financial assistance. Some cities and towns are trying to impose restrictions on where these legitimate businesses can set up shop. Even worse, several states, including Georgia and North Carolina, have successfully imposed all-out bans on the industry, with several more attempting to follow suit. Citizens all across the nation are seeking to have their voices heard by fighting legislation that would obliterate the payday loan industry nationwide; Obama, and other misinformed political officials, are pushing for a complete ban in the name of personal political gain, regardless of the hundreds of thousands of potential lost jobs in an already turbulent economy.
Posted by: Payday Loan | October 6, 2008 11:26 PM