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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama's risky metamorphosis began before he'd even locked up the nomination. On April 29 he denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom he once said he could "no more disown than I [could] my white grandmother," after Wright spent a week making even more inflammatory statements to the press than he'd made from the pulpit. And on May 30 - the same day that the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee effectively sealed the nomination for Obama - the Illinois Senator quietly resigned from the church he'd been a member of for more than 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will 'Experience' Hurt Obama? | 6/24/2008 | See Source »

Having a President in your Parish can go to a pastor's head, as Dwight Eisenhower learned soon after he took office. Ike, though personally devout, wasn't much of a churchgoer, but he didn't think people would want a President who just played golf on Sundays. So he became the first President to be baptized in office and joined National Presbyterian. The minister had promised there would be no publicity, but as Eisenhower wrote angrily in his diary, "we were scarcely home before the fact was being publicized, by the pastor, to the hilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prayer and the Presidency | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...head-on, calling for a "serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy," and declared that "secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square." But having brought his own faith and church and pastor into that square, he found them to be serious obstacles on the way to the nomination. Obama said he didn't go to church on Mother's Day because it would have been a circus: "I am not going to burden the church at the moment with my presence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prayer and the Presidency | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...himself in eastern Congo waiting for the possible emergence of Commander Cobra, a mysterious militia leader in charge of 2,000 soldiers, mostly children, who are ruled through fear and black magic. Fighting between the government and Cobra has displaced tens of thousands, and Mealer teams up with a pastor whose experience of war only makes his faith burn brighter. The pastor acts as Mealer's translator through the refugee camps where people are dying from disease and hunger. At one camp, they observe a boy picking termites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: The Forgotten Conflict | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...material for swift-boating this year is already apparent. There is Obama's loony pastor, his friendship with a former radical, his dealings with a convicted financial sleaze. McCain's friendship with a woman lobbyist is an issue the New York Times fumbled, but it could resurface. McCain was one of the Keating Five, tied to a financial and influence scandal from the early '90s that could be brought down from the attic. And there is his alleged bad temper, a potentially legitimate issue that could be blended with his age in unsavory ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Swift-Boat or Not | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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