McCurry says president's faith outreach needed now as much as ever: An opportunity to mobilize across the theological spectrum
Religious Democrats were “hibernating” until the 2008 election season, when the party’s candidates—including Barack Obama—made religion central to their campaigns, according to former White House press secretary Mike McCurry.
And now President Obama must continue his outreach to people of faith if he is to end the Iraq War, reduce the number of abortions and halt climate change, among other difficult issues, said McCurry, President Clinton’s chief spokesperson from 1995 to 1998.