Obama Tells Rabbis “We Are God’s Partners in Matters of Life and Death”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A sudden shift towards religiously-charged rhetoric in President Obama’s stumping for health care reform continued yesterday in a telephone conference, in which the president said that “we are God’s partners in matters of life and death.”Obama told the virtual gathering of Jewish rabbis – as many as 1000, according to the Washington Jewish Week news service – that he was “going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform.”
