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With that choice in mind, the McCain camp was hell-bent on portraying Bush as the captive of his party's right wing--a divider, not a uniter. By the time Michigan voters were going to the polls last Tuesday, McCain had taken Bush's visit to Fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and turned it into a symbol of the entire race. Bush, whose brother Jeb converted to Roman Catholicism, was forced to stand up and deny that he was an anti-Catholic bigot...
...anti-Catholic controversy had nothing to do with prejudice and everything to do with politics. Bush's decision to make the pilgrimage to Bob Jones was a calculated risk, but if his advisers underestimated the danger of Bush's being seen as tolerating the intolerant, it may be because they were so confident of his credentials on reaching out to minorities, in particular to Catholic Latinos in Texas. The members of Bush's senior team in Austin, Texas, were only vaguely aware of Bob Jones University's policies and past. "Reagan spoke there; President Bush spoke there; we didn...
...that attire, if they don't listen to you, sir, then they're not worth talking to." The questions from the audience matched its diversity, and the contradictions of McCain were on full view. "That's out-and-out racism," he said in response to a question about Bob Jones University. "I would tell them, 'Get out of the 16th century and into the 20th century.'" That was the moderate, tolerant, swinging John McCain talking. But then on a question about public funding for artists like photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose erotic scenes of mostly gay men incensed North Carolina...
Connoisseurs of New York politics love this stuff. "McCain's trying to make Bob Jones a symbol of Bush the way Louis Farrakhan was a symbol of Jesse Jackson," says Professor Mitchell Moss, director of the Taub Urban Research Center at New York University. Actually, McCain wants to make Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam hothead, a symbol of Bush as well. In a Fox News interview, Bush was asked if he regarded the Nation of Islam as a "faith-based institution." "I think it is," he replied. "I think it's based upon some universal principles." Since Farrakhan has called...
Spring has come to Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. The crape myrtles are in bloom, and the peach-toned brick buildings glow creamily in the afternoon sun. The cheery campus hardly recalls the school's old self-description as the "World's Most Unusual University." Not, at least, until one wanders by the bookstore and sees material on Catholicism under the heading "Cults." Or converses with an earnest young music major near an administrative building. "The Pope isn't necessarily the Antichrist," he explains, parsing a famous (and never retracted) statement by his school's founder...