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Obama Calls for Faith-Based Aid Expansion

Posted Jul 1, 08 1:43 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama today called for even more federal dollars for President Bush’s initiative funding faith-based social service groups, the AP reports. His plan will let the groups hire and fire based on religion, a controversial move that's part of an organized effort to court evangelical voters. The candidate says he wants to make the program a “moral center” of his presidency.

“The challenges we face today ... are simply too big for government to solve alone,” the candidate said at a community center in Ohio. Discussing the plan, the ex-director of Bush’s faith-based initiative program invoked "much that was best in both then Vice President Al Gore's and then Texas Governor George W. Bush's respective first speeches on the subject in 1999."

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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, talks to Rev. Bill Briggs, foreground, as he tours the East Community Ministry in Zanesville , Ohio, Tuesday, July 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks about fatherhood at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago Sunday, June 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., talks to students in a youth program while touring the East Community Ministry in Zanesville , Ohio, on Tuesday, July 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets audience members after speaking at the Truman Memorial Building in Independence, Mo., Monday, June 30, 2008.   (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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