Jim Wallis op-ed

Jim Wallis is an important figure in Democratic/Progressive thinking these days, as he represents true Christians who believe in traditional Christian values and their liberal tenets. He's also written "God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It.", a very popular book on the perversion of Christianity by the right and how traditional people of faith can regain the ground they've lost.

Wallis recently wrote an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times...

Since the 2004 election, there has been much soul-searching and hand-wringing, especially among Democrats, about how to "frame" political messages. The loss to George W. Bush was painful enough, but the Republicans' post-election claims of mandate, and their triumphal promises to relegate the Democrats to permanent minority status, left political liberals in a state of panic.

So the minority party has been searching, some would say desperately, for the right "narrative": the best story line, metaphors, even magic words to bring back electoral success. The operative term among Democratic politicians and strategists has become "framing." How to tell the story has become more important than the story itself. And that could be a bigger mistake for the Democrats than the ones they made during the election.

Read it here.