Over at Times Online, Daniel Finkelstein asks what appears to be a rhetorical question "Who invokes God most frequently in public – Bush or Obama?" Guess what? Apparently, it’s Barak Obama.
"Eamon Javers, in Politico, points out that Obama has mentioned Jesus in a number of high-profile speeches while Bush – the president whom God ‘told’ to run for office - rarely did so.
Here’s a recent sample:
Thursday, Cairo: Obama tells the crowd that he is a Christian
May 17, University of Notre Dame: Obama talks about Christian community groups in Chicago:
“I found myself drawn — not just to work with the church but to be in the church. It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.”
April 14, Georgetown University: Obama uses Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to explain his economic policies:
“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand,” Obama said. “We must build our house upon a rock.”
“Obama’s invocation of the Christian Messiah,” writes Javers, “is more overt than Americans heard in the public rhetoric of Bush in his time in the White House — even though Bush’s victories were powered in part by evangelical voters...
... “I don’t recall a single example of Bush as president ever saying, ‘Jesus’ or ‘Christ,’” said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Christian group Family Research Council. “This is different.” ”
So there you go. What about the word "Armageddon"? Barak Obama has some way to go there to beat Ronald Reagan.
