Obama Stresses Faith Amid False Rumors

Published: December 16, 2007, 10:18 pm

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The 2008 election campaign is certainly proving to be The Campaign Of Faith. First, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had to try and deal with anti-Mormon sentiments within the GOP and general electorate that have check-mated his Presidential hopes. Now, Barack Obama has had to stress his faith amid false rumors quickly (and at times gleefully) spread on the Internet, on talk radio and — it has emerged — by someone connected to Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign. What next? Will Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman soon be under pressure to prove he really had a bris? But today Obama — again showing a flair for overcoming objections and battling the growing American cottage industry (talk radio, some blogs, commentators and political operatives) of driving up a foe’s negatives by spreading half-truths or exaggerating truths — took on the rumors that have dogged him and made some voters balk: Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday confronted one of

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