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...first appearance with Obama, Biden drew heavily on his Pennsylvania roots, and his faith, which gives him a connection with another group of swing voters. "I was an Irish-Catholic kid from Scranton with a father who like many of yours in tough economic times fell on hard times, but my mom and dad raised me to believe... it's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how quickly you get up," he said. "Ladies and gentlemen, that's your story. That's America's story. It's about if you get up, you can make...
KARZAI I don't think the Afghan people would prefer the Taliban to the current government. They have reduced faith in the government, yes, definitely ... [But] the Taliban will never be, in the eyes of the Afghan people, an alternative...
...among whites or among blacks, neither in slums nor in student unions - and is haunted by "the constant, crippling fear that I didn't belong." He wants to know how to feel rooted and purposeful. At the end of his odyssey, he decides to take a leap of faith. For the young Obama, "faith in other people" becomes his home...
...American way and all that s___." Did the future candidate take this to heart? Not according to him. "It made me smile," Obama recalls, "thinking back on Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self. In some ways he was as incurable as my mother, as certain in his faith, living in the same '60s time warp...
There is another Trojan-horse interpretation just below the radar. It is the idea that a man named Barack Hussein Obama might be hiding a Muslim identity. Obama has tackled this dozens of times. His Kenyan grandfather was indeed a Muslim; his father espoused no faith; Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia for a time as a boy because that's where he lived - Indonesia is a Muslim country. He believed in no religion until he moved to Chicago as a grown man and was baptized Christian by Wright. As campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs puts it, "His Christian pastor...