WASHINGTON--A top adviser to President Barack Obama's re-election campaign said Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has taken "divisive positions" on key social issues.
Based on such polls, how do American Catholics generally view the Vatican's position on divisive issues?
Such moves could give China a bigger presence in the European chain of distribution and production, while allowing it to build a track record of investments that it hopes will also encourage Europe to support its position on divisive currency issues and in trade disputes at the World Trade Organization.
Mr. Jaafari heads an Islamist party, Dawa, whose official policies call for the "Islamization" of Iraqi society, but he has recently asserted that any government he headed would reach out across ethnic and religious lines and take a moderate position on divisive issues like the role of Islam.
Despite his opposition to forced sterilizations and abortions, Mr. Chen has said he has no position on the divisive issue.
There's no question that Ben Rimalower's position on that divisive diva puts him squarely in the adoration camp, even when La LuPone is threatening legal action against him.
Last month, the theme changed dramatically as the same group splashed dark, grainy images of illegal immigrants across television screens in northern Ohio, attacking a Democratic candidate's position on the divisive domestic issue.
But by adopting a clear position on a divisive social issue, Mr. Obama gave hope to some conservatives that the resulting contrast would make Mr. Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, "look more centrist," as Ken Khachigian, a Republican strategist in California, put it.
Neither party had taken a position on the divisive question during the campaign, but selecting a permanent capital was high on the list of the new legislature's orders of business.
Mr. Bush made the remarks after a White House session on Wednesday with Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, becoming the first United States president to take such a clear-cut position on the hugely divisive issue.
