Is Obama another victim of the echo chamber?

The Daily Caller points out Obama's puerile effort to curry favor with Catholics by emphasizing form over content:

Amid polls showing that his efforts to regulate religious institutions have hurt his image among Catholics, President Barack Obama has begun touting his early ties to the church.

“My first job as a community organizer was with Catholic churches who taught me the power of kindness and commitment to others in neighborhoods,” he declared at a Hollywood fundraiser May 23.

“When I was a young community organizer, I was working with Catholic churches and they taught me that no government program can make as much of a difference as kindness and commitment on the part of neighbors and friends,” he said at a Colorado fundraiser earlier that day.

This new emphasis on his ties to the Catholic Church is a change from Obama’s previous speeches and fundraisers, where he did not mention that, early in his career, he was funded and supported by liberal Catholic officials in Chicago.

His Chicago supporters included a radical Catholic priest, Father Michael Pfleger, who has since been admonished by senior church officials for political advocacy.

Obama’s emphasis on his Catholic ties come as polls show a sharp drop in his support among swing-voting Catholics in battleground states after his February imposition of regulations on churches.

If you think about the fact that Obama's contacts with Catholics have been with people like Pfleger and other liberals who place their primary identity with liberalism rather than with the Church, you can see how Obama might have been rope-a-doped into his attack on Catholic doctrine. Why would he have any reason to think otherwise based on the self-described Catholics he interacted with?