God and Democrats: Republicans Don't Own Religion

It was a remarkable, moving speech by a presumptive Democratic nominee for president on promoting faith-based solutions to urgent human needs.

"The men and women who work in faith-and-values-based organizations," he explained, "are driven by their spiritual commitment; to serve their God, they have sustained the drug-addicted, the mentally ill, the homeless; they have trained them, educated them, cared for them, healed them. Most of all, they have done what government can never do; what it takes [is] God's help, sometimes, for all of us to manage; they have loved them—loved their neighbors, no matter how beaten down, how hopeless, how despairing." And he went on to make some revolutionary political implications: "I believe government should play a greater role in sustaining this quiet transformation—not by dictating solutions from above, but by supporting the effective new policies that are rising up from below."

So I ask you readers, what did you think of the above speech given by Barack Obama this past week in Ohio?

Do some of you say not much. Well, what if I told you Obama did not deliver this speech. Rather it was Vice President Al Gore, speaking at the Salvation Army in Atlanta in 1999.

See Newsweek.