Biden to be Obama's 'confidant' | |||
Days into his new job, US Vice President Joe Biden says he sees his role as being a "confidant" and "adviser" to President Obama. "I don't see myself as the deputy president. I see myself as the president's confidant," Mr Biden told CBS News programme Face the Nation. "Hopefully I'm the last person in the room with every important decision he makes," the former senator added. He said he sees his role differently from former vice president Dick Cheney. Break with past Mr Cheney was reputed to have been the architect of some of the Bush administration's most controversial policies, from the Iraq war, to interrogation tactics and an unprecedented spy programme.
In contrast, Mr Biden, a 65-year-old long-time Washington insider, said his job is to act as an adviser. "I said, 'Barack, I don't want to be on the ticket unless you're hiring me for my judgment'," he told CBS. "So that's what I view my role to be, a confidant, an adviser, essentially the last guy in the room when he makes these critical decisions." BBC. | |||
Utah Mormons, Protestants finding new spiritual home in ancient Orthodox church
By BOB MIMS | The Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake Tribune It shook the fundamentalist Christian world to its roots: Hank Hanegraaff , the darling of evangelicals as host of the long-running, nationally syndicated "Bible Answer Man" broadcast, had joined the Greek Orthodox Church. Hanegraaff, for nearly 30 years president of the Christian Research Institute, an evangelical apologetics ministry, also has written 20 books opposing purported cults and heresies and non-Christian faiths. If ever evangelicals had a doctrinal superhero, Hanegraaff was he. But on Palm Sunday, in a video released via social media , there was the 67-year-old Hanegraaff kneeling for "Holy Chrismation" — a rite of anointing with oil accompanying baptism — inside St. Nektarios Greek Orthodox Church of Charlotte, N.C. Within days, Bott Radio Network, a 107-station strong, evangelical broadcasting empire, severed its longstanding relationship with him; other criti...
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