All Sen. Obama will say is that "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." And in that he may be correct. There are many preachers who would be happy to tell their congregations "God damn America." But Barack Obama is not suppose to be the candidate of the America-damners: He's not the Rev. Al Sharpton or the Rev. Jesse Jackson or the rest of the racial grievance-mongers. Obama is meant to be the man who transcends the divisions of race, the candidate who doesn't damn America but "heals" it ? if you believe, as many Democrats do, that America needs healing. Yet since his early twenties he's sat week after week, listening to the ravings of just another cookie-cutter race-huckster. - Mark Steyn

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