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[wyldwolf]

34. Let's go to the actual book rather than internet sources from biased writers.

Here is what I've gathered and here is what is printed in the book.

The author states Clinton is, indeed, religious. Big surprise, right?

The first time Sharlet uses The Reverend Rob Schenck, the founder of a ministry called Faith and Action in the Nation’s Capital—a knockoff of the Family, the theological equivalent of fake Gucci - as a source:

For instance, says Schenck, Senators Sam Brownback and Hillary Clinton, partners in prayer at Coe’s weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast. The Family is dedicated to spiritual war, not the intramural combat of party politics, Schenck explained. Coe doesn’t have a systematic theology, he has a vision of power. Not just to come, but as it exists. “They’re into living with what is,” said Schenck. “But you don’t want to alienate them, you don’t want to antagonize them. You need them as your friends. Even Hillary will need them. They keep a sort of cultural homeostasis in Washington. Washington right now is a town where if you’re going to be powerful, you need religion. That’s just the way it’s done.”

The author then explicitly states (and there really is no room for interpretation here):

Hillary may well be God’s beautiful child, (my note: a term Sam Brownback calls people like Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy and, yes, Hillary Clinton) but she’s not a member of Coe’s Family. Rather, I’d been told at Ivanwald, she’s a “friend,” less elect then a member, but more chosen than the rest of us. A fellow traveler but not a sister. Her goals are not their goals; but when on occasion they coincide, Hillary and the Family can work together.

And there you have it, folks. The most damning passage linking Hillary to 'The Family.' The rest of the book's commentary on Clinton is, in my opinion, a judgmental assault on Hillary for being religious, ambitious and being willing to mix the two. If you want to knock her for that, be my guest, but that is a technique many politicians (yes, even liberal ones) have used to great success.

But who else is mentioned in the book as a 'friend' of The Family? Al Gore (page 259)