Religion & Law

Brewbaker on Obamahuckamania

By Rob Vischer

Alabama law prof Bill Brewbaker comments on my recent posts on Barack Obama:

[Obama] and Huckabee have both exploited the (worldly) idea that things would be ok if only "people like us" were in charge  (Barack: educated, smart progressives; Huck: born-again Christians).  Both also talk a lot about "hope" but not so much about the issues.  Talking about issues doesn't fit well with "bringing the country together."  Shouldn't alarm bells go off whenever someone tells us to put our hope in Caesar?  Or that Caesar will unite us?  Even if Caesar is, to quote Michael Jackson, a lover, not a fighter? I voted for McCain in part because nobody's going to mistake him for the messiah.

Last week we began MoJ's fifth year of existence, and I would like to commend Prof. Brewbaker for his comment, which embodies the expansiveness of the Catholic legal theory project: a Protestant making his insightful political point by marshalling resources ranging from Holy Scripture to the King of Pop.

Full post as published by Mirror of Justice on February 11, 2008 (boomark / email).