March 5th, 2011 at 5:49PM

Obama: Truly Niebuhrian?

“The current president came to national attention as a candidate enunciating principles of justice for the conduct of warfare, statecraft, the domestic economy and political change….As soon as he described himself to an interviewer as a Niebuhrian, we should have known that the principles were nothing more than mushy sentiments to be thrown overboard at the first sign of rough weather.” Princeton scholar Jeffrey Stout on the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on Barack Obama in “WWND: What Would Niebuhr Do?”

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