I found the previous comment to be enlightening and correct.  When you seek to label yourself a Christian nation, the world looks at everything you do in that light.  Even members of my family (who know better) love to say proudly, "America was founded on Christian values and it IS a Christian nation."  This is mixed in with a blind patriotism, blind in that we can't see past our own noses.  I hope that one day many of you will learn the truth about American foreign policy and business.  If only you had a glimpse of the horrors induced by the American way, you would think twice about making that statement.  No one ever talks about how we picked every single leader of Iraq and Iran for the last 60 years.  No one ever talks about how we murdered 200,000 children in Iraq, because of an embargo on medications.  Perhaps my comment will be deleted, because I mention that Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld were both CEOs of military contracting firms.  We never talk about how our conservative administration opened up Iraq to foreign firms, killing Iraqi industry while we made tons of money.  We never talk about how we use world orgs like the WTO, world bank, IMF, and NAFTA to greedily profit (when the whole purpose of these orgs is to level the playing field and help third world countries).  What about American corporations and the American lifestyle?  For us to live the way we do, many parts of the rest of the world have to do without.... food, water, and the bare necessities.  Doesn't sound Christian to me, what do you think? 

The post before was right, America is in no way liberal.  Obama is a centrist.  But Godless liberals, eh?  I'm so liberal the Democratic party doesn't even cover it, so I must be Satan himself right?  Well let's see.  I'm a premed student at UGA studying for degrees cell bio and anthropology.  (I'm from UGA... not an edu elite.)  I want to go to med school so that I can either work abroad in 3rd world countries or start a nonprofit clinic in my small, rural southern town.  I spend most of my week volunteering in places like homeless shelters, attending club meetings that address genocide, world poverty, and healthcare issues here and abroad, mentoring impoverished kids, and volunteering at the hospital.  And I'm active in my Baptist church.  Here's the kicker, almost 90% of the Christians I come into contact on campus, in homeless shelters, and in philanthropic orgs (who are actually Christians, not just pew Chrsitians), feel the same way about things as I do.  Shocking isn't it and a little scary for you conservatives?  Losing your base...  No, listen.  it's not Godless to try to fight the cycle of poverty or genocide or prevent drug dealers from getting AKs.  It's the opposite.  When I look at the conservative Christian base this is what I see.  People who talk about showing God's love, but then vote to protect their giant SUVs and extravagant lifestyles.  I see folks who instead of getting their hands dirty and witnessing through works, just write a check.  As if God's blessing will fall upon you when you have barely made any sacrifice in his name?  I see a disconcern for the well being of fellow Christians as well as the lost.  I se ppl trying to save souls for their own glorification instead of actually caring about the person in front of them.  The lost see through the self righteousness and insincerity.  They look at these political movements and ask why you don't care enough to take a bit out of the 20% poverty rate among children if you care so much about the "right to life?"  Delete this if you will, but it's time you hear the other side.