Mike McCurry
Mike McCurry
Michael Demaree "Mike" McCurryis best known as the former press secretary for Bill Clinton's administration. He is a Washington-based communications consultant and is associated with the firm Public Strategies Washington, Inc. He is also active within the administration of the United Methodist Church, serving as a lay delegate to the Church General Conference and on various denominational boards. He currently co-chairs the Commission on Presidential Debates. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he was educated at Princeton University and Georgetown University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth21 December 1954
CountryUnited States of America
For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.
President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq and we did make some miscalculations and misjudgments there,' but he is so stubbornly arrogant - he just sticks with that same formula that he has in talking about the war on Iraq that just defies the reality that we all see on the ground.
For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.
I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.
Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.
By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.
There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.
The White House is a huge organization, first and foremost.
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()