Seriously. Why should anyone care about what this guy thinks as if he is the last word on what “the family” is. I know he carries a lot of weight with the evangelical community overall. But why did he become the poster-boy and spokesperson? Do people really follow this guy like panting dogs after a juicy steak? If so, why? I agree with his first line here, but would he have said that when Bush was using this particular strategy successfully against Kerry?
“There’s nothing dishonorable in a person rethinking his or her positions, especially in a constantly changing political context,” Dobson said in a statement to the AP. “Barack Obama contradicts and threatens everything I believe about the institution of the family and what is best for the nation. His radical positions on life, marriage and national security force me to reevaluate the candidacy of our only other choice, John McCain.”
Earlier, Dobson had said he could not in good conscience vote for McCain, citing the candidate’s support for embryonic stem cell research and opposition to a federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, as well as concerns about McCain’s temper and foul language.
Apparently Dobson has not grasped just how similar McCain and Obama are. Obama clearly cannot contradict everything Dobson believes unless of course McCain does too. So he can “flip-flop” on his position as long as the candidates do not. The sub-text is that he is pining for Huckabee as VP. Given the appalling religious infusion in this season’s debates pandering to evangelicals, that would be a good strategic move for McCain. But McCain’s use of religion before the presidential campaign season with religion as a private matter was far more honorable. I wish he would have stayed the course. But alas, such is the political environment these days.
Case in point, they will be having their first public forum where they might appear together for the first time at Rick Warren’s mega-church.
Mr. Warren, the author of the best-selling book “The Purpose-Driven Life,” said he had called each man personally to invite him to his event, which will focus on how they make decisions and on some of Mr. Warren’s main areas of focus, like AIDS, poverty and the environment.
“I just got to thinking, you know what? These guys have never been together on the same stage, it would be a neat way to cap the primary season before they both go to the conventions and things go dark for a couple of weeks,” he said. “I’ve known both the guys for a long time, they’re both friends of mine, and I knew them before they ran for office, so I just called them up.”
Doesn’t that strike anyone else as odd? We know that Obama has been playing the faith card as hard as possible to shore up the evangelicals. It’s getting a bit distasteful and tiresome. Anyone else a bit squeamish over this?
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