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...both parties will likely fire it from a confetti gun. A million fluttery pieces of conventional wisdom will swirl around a nominee or nominees once thought to be impossible: a woman, a black man, a guy in his 70s, a Mormon, a Hispanic, a Baptist preacher who used to be 100 lbs. overweight. Who knows? This is the year to bet on something unusual happening, and few things in politics are more unusual than Rudolph Giuliani - "America's mayor," the rock of 9/11, crime fighter and tax cutter...
...mastering the language of the motivational circuit, Giuliani has tapped into an alternative vein of American religious thought - the gospel of success. The idea that God intends for Americans to prosper is as old as the nation. A century ago, Russell Conwell, a Baptist preacher, distilled this gospel in his speech "Acres of Diamonds." Through some 6,000 public appearances, the tireless Conwell told his exotic story of a man who left his farm to search the globe for gems, only to die penniless and bereft - while the world's largest diamond mine lay waiting to be discovered...
...predominantly spiritual issue to which many cannot relate, but it also creates a potentially irreconcilable segregation between “pious pro-lifers” and “blasphemous, pro-choice killers.” It builds an image of the pro-lifer as a judgmental preacher, rather than a compassionate rationalist...
...without knowing if there would be a functioning government coming out the other side or even if their elected representatives would be in a job at the end of the month. Two-thirds of them turned out anyway. The outcome was fairly predictable, in that elderly Protestant preacher Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, who turned IRA gunmen into formidable political operators, tightened their respective holds on the Protestant and Catholic vote. But what happens next is not nearly as easy to forecast. The British and Irish governments are counting on the former enemies cooperating to end the region's political...
...After receiving his induction, Clinton thanked the marchers for their "gift given to us." Without it, Clinton said, he would never see "a rainbow coalition running for president, including one junior Senator from New York." After a day of preachers and preaching, he quoted his grandmother's dream for him to be a preacher, "if I'd been a better boy," the former president joked...