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Originally posted by Arya
If I'm not mistaken, and please correct me, wasn't there already a few Atheist presidents? Also, Abraham Lincoln wasn't a rich man when he became president.
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Yes, but that was before huge campaign budgets were needed to get elected. You have to spend some of your own money on your campaign, and to get rich and corporate donors you have to at least advocate rich-friendly policies... You can't be completely socialist.
On the atheist thing--nope. Well, Thomas Jefferson was a 'theist', but he did believe in God in a roundabout way. Some of them may have not been particularly religious, but traditionally it's difficult to get elected if you're not a WASP. When JFK was elected as the first (and only I think) Catholic president, it was a big deal!
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