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"For the first time in our history, we're in a position where those who are the wage earners are paying a bigger chunk than they should. It's got to shift back."

HILLARY CLINTON

-On the number of black teenagers diagnosed with HIV/AIDS: "This is a multiple-dimension problem. But if we don't begin to take it seriously and address it the way we did back in the '90s when it was primarily a gay men's disease, we will never get the services and the public education that we need."

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Does Scripture have a place on the campaign trail?

In a previous blog post at chicagotribune.com/seeker about U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's speech Saturday to the United Church of Christ, I mentioned how journalist Bill Moyers tried to rally 10,000 of his brethren to save democracy. In doing so, Moyers reflected on the Gospel of Matthew as a road map for quiet revolution and social change.

When asked earlier this year how Matthew factored into Obama's political thinking, the Illinois Democrat told me:

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There are two ways to predict the winner of the 2008 presidential race: Check the polls or read some history. The polls tell you that with President Bush's approval ratings abysmally low, with the war in Iraq becoming increasingly unpopular, with the GOP lacking a dominant candidate, and with the party divided over immigration, social issues and even religion (Mitt Romney's Mormonism), the next president is bound to be a Democrat. History begs to differ.

The history I have in mind is 1972. By the end of that year, 56,844 Americans had been killed in Vietnam, a war that almost no one thought could still be won and which no one could quite figure out how to end. Nevertheless, the winner in that year's presidential election was Richard M. Nixon. He won 49 of 50 states -- and the war, of course, went on.

Iraq unpopular as Vietnam

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Los candidatos presidenciales demócratas se mantuvieron unidos anoche contra la Corte Suprema y su fallo sobre las leyes de segregación escolar. La senadora Hillary Clinton dijo que la corte conservadora ''había atrasado el reloj'' de la historia.

El senador Barack Obama, el único candidato negro en el debate de ocho aspirantes, habló sobre los líderes de derechos civiles que lucharon por esa causa.

''Si no fuera por ellos, yo no estaría aquí en estos momentos'', afirmó Obama.

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