Palin vs. "Palin"

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Time magazine recently reported that Tina Fey has seized vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s public image. While Fey spoofs Palin as a beauty queen who has to phone a friend to answer interview questions, the real Palin accuses Obama of befriending terrorists. The Tina Fey version of Sarah Palin appears harmless -- making it harder to see the real candidate as the Spiro Agnew-like hatchet woman she really is.

Is Obama catering to the creationists?

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Taking a page from President Bush, Barack Obama wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service dollars to religious groups. Calling the Bush faith-based program "a photo op", Senator Obama says he would scrap the office entirely and create a new Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships that would be a "critical" part of his new administration.

A leading creationist accuses Barack Obama of pushing a fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution

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As Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. Dobson told millions of his listeners on his weekly radio program, Focus on the Family, that Obama is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.

Barack Obama promises a return to science

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In a direct fire across the bow of Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity, the presumed Democratic candidate for US president has clearly stated where he stands on the evolution-creationism controversy. In his first speech after winning the Democratic nomination, Senator Obama took this very public opportunity to remind voters that his administration will be renewing a commitment to science, as had Bill Clinton when he was president.

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