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Obama’s Spirituality Private But Influential, Advisers Say

Written by News One on February 4, 2010 3:41 pm

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From WashingtonPost.com:

Every morning, sometimes as early as 5:30 a.m., a short religious passage comes across President Obama’s BlackBerry, sent by one of his aides.

At other moments, Obama prays privately, his advisers said. And when he takes his family to Camp David on the weekends, a Navy chaplain ministers to them, with the daughters attending a form of Sunday school there.

More than a year into his presidency, Obama has not chosen a church in Washington, and has attended services just four times. No single figure has assumed the role of spiritual adviser — publicly, at least — or filled the vacancy created when Obama disavowed his former Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

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When Obama appears at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday morning — a regular presidential ritual — it will mark the rare occasion when he puts religion in the foreground.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CaliFemme23/ CaliFemme23

    Imma leave this one alone because religion and state are supposedly two different entities….We shouldnt be concerned with how Obama practices his ‘faith’

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jahz_Lynx1/ Jahz_Lynx1

    O’Contraire! The method is in the message. How can the Democrats begin to re-unify the base when so many are calling the man “weak” in regards to leadership? RELIGION. If he’s about feeling God’s spirit, he’d already pulled our troops out. If he’s in touch, then he’d know God called BS on that under wear bomber scenerio too. Ya’ll ain’t foolin’ nobody.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jahz_Lynx1/ Jahz_Lynx1

    Wait just one cotton-pickin minute…you mean to tell me that one of his aides is assigned the task of picking his spritual focus for the morning?
    If I remember correctly, that’s a federal employee paid with public dollars.
    Someone didn’t think this press release through to a logical conclusion.
    I know the man can just flip the book open and read at no charge to the Union. Even better, let his mother in law pick his spiritual focus, maybe then we’d see some CHANGE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    Jah_Lynx1

    very observative views 2 ponder
    it’s good 2 see that they cannot get anything pass people that have a heightened sense of awareness

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/hayleno3/ hayleno3

    when you a believer of your creator thier is no need to speak about it; it will show Greater is in me than in this world I love you President OBAMA!

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