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Obama respects faith

Jennifer K. Berenson
Berenson is a professor of religion at Roanoke College.

The relationship between faith and politics is of great interest to people across America. While John McCain offers positions on certain issues that are amenable to religious conservatives, Barack Obama has directly addressed this question and pointed toward a solution to the growing political divisions in this country.
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McCain: superior on foreign affairs

Alan Fabrycky
Fabrycky is a computer consultant in Montgomery County.

John McCain has exhibited real leadership in the current financial crisis while Barack Obama has merely articulated principles that most of Congress, including McCain, already supported. Home prices, declining from overinflated levels, have reduced the value of home mortgage assets held by financial institutions, forcing them to curtail lending to avoid bankruptcy. House prices must stop deflating, or the $700 billion financial rescue package will be insufficient to right the economy. McCain proposes to stop deflation by using part of the $700 billion to buy underwater home mortgages.
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