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...bigger part of his life, Kennedy became more sensitive to accusations that Democrats were godless and hostile to religion. One week after the 2004 election, he placed a call to the left-leaning Evangelical leader Jim Wallis. "They're saying we're not religious," Kennedy told Wallis. "But we know that's not true." Wallis spent an evening at the Kennedy home, talking with the Senator and Vicki, and left surprised by what he heard. "I'd never heard Ted Kennedy speak publicly about his faith the way some other politicians do," Wallis recalls now. "But the conversation was very...
...years later, his brother watched as Democrats like Kerry faced down charges that they weren't Catholic enough. "Abortion is the big issue, and John Kennedy never had to directly confront that," says Shaun Casey, author of The Making of a Catholic President. "We'll never really know how he might have handled that." (Read "How the Democrats Got Religion...
...Twitter, as camp residents tweeted about every moment of their first day with gusto on the camp's official Twitter feed @climatecamp and on their personal feeds. Who needs undercover policing when activists document everything they do on Twitter? If the Met is monitoring the multiple tweets, it will know that its softly-softly approach has registered with the climate campers. A tweet from @climatecamp captured the mood: "Very amused that an ice-cream van managed to reach the front of the camp faster than the police vans...
...climate camp, to be disseminated by SMS. "British police are the best in the world at policing," says a man who identified himself as You Can Call Me Jeff (climate campers prefer to withhold their real names). "After all, they've had centuries of repressing social movements. They know how to win the battle of the story, to convince people they're in the right. But at the G-20, they lost it." Kat, another seasoned climate camper, agrees. She recalls watching riot police lash out with batons during the protests in April. "We put up our hands immediately...
...stoicism, if not humor, a little gentle baiting by the crowd, which had queued up to take pictures of them, mirroring the standard police practice of photographing crowds. Chief Superintendent Ball confirms that police will photograph people as they enter the climate camp. It's important, she says, to know who is on site in case determined troublemakers infiltrate the ranks of peaceable environmentalists. (See pictures of the G-20 protests in London in April...