are somewhat characterising. He is very similar to Obama, wherein he says that he looks at his own religion (and make no mistake, the VAST majority of American voters are, for better or worse, religious believers) as being very, very inclusive and focusing on the the least powerful in society. He says (correctly so IMHO) that it is crazy to cede the area of religion to the hateful, non-inclusive RW fundie assholes, that there needs to be a strong religious left to address the hundreds of millions of Americans who do believe in it.