Reply #14: Reaction to the faith tour in Carolina ought to be withheld until it

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actually occurs.

I think there may be other, larger fish to fry in an idea like that, not least of which would be taking the New Testament to the people who are at this hour prepared to vote yet again for some Republican yahoo.

Let those people hear their faith spoken of and spoken to by an up-north scholar. That's the dinner table version. The out-behind-the-garage version is, if they know more about Christianity than Senator Obama, let them knock him, and if they don't, they need to shut their damn mouths for a minute and do some serious listening. They might just learn something.

Should Barack Obama go on to become the 44th U.S. president, it isn't difficult to conceive that this tour -- this re-connectivity and collective re-imagining he's working with here -- could be the catalyst that makes him our next president.

At the very least it bears watching, and respectful watching at that.