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...notion that he's some sort of addict, don't go over well at the construction site. A former Coast Guard sailor wonders if the President isn't a narcissist, prone to delusions of invulnerability. Someone else thinks he wanted to get caught--the revenge of his guilty Baptist conscience, perhaps. Maybe all the talk at church of a final heavenly judgment compelled him to want to speed up the process...
...like Bill Clinton two weeks ago, Henry Lyons, president of one of the nation's largest black denominations, admitted Monday to an "improper relationship" with a coworker -- and he too wants forgiveness. But like Clinton, he's not out of the doghouse quite yet. The board of the National Baptist Convention says it is willing to forgive Lyons his extramarital affair, but his pending indictments for fraud, money laundering and tax evasion are another matter -- especially if they lead to a conviction...
...lights in the mansion so we could see the shadows through the shades. In the middle of the most painful weekend of her life, Hillary invited into her home for comfort the one clergyman in America better known for his pulpit at CNN than at the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side...
Last week, after Fieger stunned Michigan's Democratic machine to become the party's nominee for Governor, one of his first orders of business was heading into downtown Detroit, where Jackson was preaching at a crowded Baptist convention. Fieger (rhymes with tiger) is aggressively courting black voters and was looking forward to Jackson's imprimatur...
Still, he can't seem to fight his twitch for getting ugly. As he stepped into the convention center to greet local Baptist ministers, he unleashed. "I don't know how African Americans can vote for Engler," he says. "That's like Jews voting for Adolf Hitler...