Hillary's Jesus Moment Appears to be Another Staged Event

Hallelujah and pass the elderly Sunday School teacher:

Clinton called on two audience members for questions, including Amy Fellows of Croton, Iowa, who asked, “Are you a Christian?”

“Yes I am,” said Hillary.

“OK, that’s really important to me. God be with you,” said Crofton.

“And also with you,” the senator answered. “I’m often asked what are the biggest influences in my life and what are the important commitments that kind of keep me going — my faith, my family, my friends, my work. I used to get asked fairly often if I was a praying person. I said yes, I was raised going to church, I’m a Methodist,” she said to applause. “I’m a very grateful and committed Methodist.”

Fellows told our pool reporter (Pat Healy, for the curious) later that she was not a part of the Clinton campaign and that the question was not planted.

“Having a good Christian in the White House is very important to me,” she said, adding she was leaning strongly towards Clinton, but didn’t know very much about John Edwards or Obama, including their religions or the brouhaha over Obama’s faith and Kerrey’s comments.

Also among the 200 people at the Donnellson firehouse was Rosalie Bentzinger, who was the director of religious education Hillary’s First Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Ill. She gave Hillary a picture of her confirmation class from March 22, 1959.

As I've said on numerous occasions, nothing happens in the Clinton campaign by accident. The question and the presence of her Sunday School teacher, who just happened to have her confirmation photo, was well planned by not terribly well executed.