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Article: Faith, race and Barack Obama; Lexington.(Faith, race and Barack Obama)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2006
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There could be far more like him, if gerrymandering vanished
HOW can Americans overcome their divisions? Barack Obama, the son of a lapsed Kenyan Muslim, has some arresting thoughts. On the subject of tackling head-on "the mutual suspicion that sometimes exists between religious America and secular America", the junior senator from Illinois delivered last week one of the best speeches of his brief career.
He told the story of a doctor who wrote to him when he was running for the Senate in 2004. The doctor said he might vote for Mr Obama, but was repelled by a line on his campaign website promising to fight "right-wing ideologues who want to take away a ...