Barack Obama affirms his Christianity | World news | The Guardian

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It's fair to say that Barack Obama has more on his plate than most people. But today Obama admitted that when he kneels to pray for help, it is not always on the weightiest affairs of state. The US president told the national prayer breakfast in Washington that he prays for peace in the Middle East – and that he also asks for God's assistance with his 12-year-old daughter, Malia. "Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance, where there will be boys. Lord, let her skirt get longer as she travels to that place," Obama recounted. Obama's speech today was laced with Biblical references in his most public affirmation of his faith. With many Americans under the illusion that he might be a covert Muslim, Obama explained: "I came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace him as my Lord and Saviour." Obama described his upbringing as "not religious", his father as a non-believer and his mother "grew up with a certain scepticism … she only took me to church at Easter and Christmas – sometimes". It was Obama's involvement as a community organiser, "working with pastors and laypeople, trying to heal the wounds of hurting neighbourhoods", that had first led him to see himself as a Christian. The White House denied that Obama's address was intended to clarify his religious affiliation. But Obama gave a hint at the frustration he feels over the issue: "My Christian faith then has been a sustaining force for me over these last few years, all the more so when Michelle and I hear our faith questioned from time to time." "We are reminded that ultimately what matters is not what other people say about us, but whether we're being true to our conscience and true to our God." A Pew Research poll last year found that 18% of Americans claimed Obama was a Muslim – and that the number had increased since he became president. Only 34% of those surveyed said he was a Christian.

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"Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance, where there will be boys. Lord, let her skirt get longer as she travels to that place," Obama recounted.

Creeeeee-pyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

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"I came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace him as my Lord and Saviour."

How many times are you going to degrade yourself like this before you realise it's not working? You could be made Pope and everyone'd still think you were a secret Muslim.

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LiS is delighted to find that its campaign to see all journalists replaced by celebrities by the year 2016 is gathering speed and support. Friends, introduce yourself to the world's leading international affairs reporter: Naomi Campbell. Nay, stare not in that mocking manner, lest someone smash you over the head with a BlackBerry in an uncontrollable rage. Instead direct your gaze to her new interview with Russian premier Vladimir Putin – quite the model himself, as anyone who's seen those photos of him topless and feeding a horse will tell you. LiS believes that look with which he fixes the camera is what Tyra Banks on America's Next Top Model would call "fierce eyes". Perhaps that's why Campbell feels able to put all those Russian journalists critical of the Putin regime who've been mysteriously murdered out of her mind, and boldly asks the question everyone has been too cowed to ask of a man variously accused of taking cronyism and corruption to hitherto-unknown levels; running what one analyst has called a fundamentally undemocratic "assassination-happy state" in which torture, detention and murder are used to silence opponents; collaborating with organised criminals, and so on: "How do you manage to keep yourself so fit?" Having inadvertently established that Putin contrives to sound profoundly menacing even when detailing his fitness regime ("I swim daily," he says, "and from time to time I meet with friends and do extracurricular stuff", a phrase LiS somehow imagines him intoning darkly while dragging his forefinger across his throat), an interrogation so pitiless even the toughest FSB man might balk continues: why does he prefer to use the butterfly stroke when swimming? Perhaps understandably, under this journalistic mauling, the carapace cracks and disturbing facts are revealed. In fairness, Putin isn't the first public figure to confess a love of bare-knuckle boxing; there was Alan Partridge ("two men fighting as I saw in the barn that night, naked as the day they were born and fighting the way God intended"). But not even the holder of the fourth-best slot on BBC Radio Norwich went in for female bare-knuckle boxing. "Not big women," clarifies Putin, for the benefit of anyone who thought he might enjoying watching overweight ladies pummel each other with their fists and thus draw the conclusion that he's deeply weird. "Just strong women." Already weakened slightly by Campbell's answer to this revelation – "I'd like to see that" – LiS found its mind wandering to the image of our own prime minister expounding on his interest in female bare-knuckle boxing, which caused it to faint. Upon reviving, it began considering the possibilities for the future this incredible feature suggests. Send Agyness Deyn to Iran and see if she can't winkle out some details of Ahmadinejad's workout programme! Let's book Alexa Chung's ticket to North Korea now! Frankly, if LiS were Jeremy Paxman, it would spend a little less time sending out emails moaning about senior management at the BBC and a little more time looking over its shoulder.

Naomi Campbell gets the scoop on Vladimir Putin | Life and style | The Guardian

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Originally Posted by Zichao

Creeeeee-pyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Yeah but I suspect many good ol' fashioned Americans will like that. "Moral degenerescence" worked with those above 45 in nearly every generation since Plato... I am pretty sure that, when fire was domesticated, there must have been some cavemen politicians harping about the loss of courage and moral degenerescence of the new generations..

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How many times are you going to degrade yourself like this before you realise it's not working? You could be made Pope and everyone'd still think you were a secret Muslim.

Proving a negative, it's a bitch, innit?

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