Face to faith  Evangelicals, beginning to voice concern for
God's earth, are critical to the US elections, says James Jones
• The Guardian,   • Jump to comments () If a week is a long time
in politics, three months is an eternity. When I was in America
in November everyone was preparing for Bill Clinton to be the
first lady. Barack Obama was just an interesting political
novelty; Hillary would be the first first lady to become
president. On the Republican side the frontrunners were Rudy
Giuliani and Mitt Romney. Now everything has changed. The
primaries have sent tremors through the political establishment.
Super Tuesday comes like the ides of March, sealing the fate of
many of the candidates. Falling the day before Ash Wednesday
that marks the beginning of Jesus' sojourn in the desert, these
primaries will dispatch a number of failed messiahs into the
political wilderness.  I was in Orlando and got a ticket for the
Republican convention, where all nine candidates for the GOP
nomination appeared before a f