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Election 2008

Obama and McCain Offer Two Very Different Kinds of Heroism

By Ira Chernus, AlterNet. Posted July 30, 2008.


Conservative cultural critics have been lamenting the decline of heroism in America for years. Now Obama is challenging their narrative.
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Ira Chernus is a professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of Monsters to Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin.

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