At 26, Michael Wear is already an old White House hand, used to treading the fine divide between religion and politics. He spoke to The Tablet about Obama, fear – and religious freedom as a hot political potato of the coming years As Michael Wear discusses, with authority, the role of faith in politics it is easy to forget that, last Friday, he turned just 26. Yet his CV already includes working for Barack Obama in the President’s 2008 campaign, before becoming a leader in the White House’s faith-based ­initiative, and the head of faith outreach for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.Now a public speaker on faith and a campaigner on social justice, he has been on a frenetic visit to Britain, hosted by St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and supported by the