The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.