History in the making, a black president and a Catholic president, however their is only one problem media coverage. During the 1960 campaign Kennedy's Catholic faith was a major issue because Americans were worried of about the relationship between church and state. In the 2008 election, Obama's relationship with his pastor for 20 years Reverend Jerimah Wright also caused controversy, during the primaries, Wright began to make racist and controversial coments, however unlike the media in the 1960 campaign their was no coverage of the Reverend Wright issue and Obama did very little compared to when Kennedy spoke in front of Christian Ministers in Houston and talked little about his religion while Obama did nothing at all.