Marketing Obama to Evangelicals

[davidnc76]

OAKLAND, California, Aug 4 (IPS) - For the past three decades, the religious right has dominated the religio- political dialogue in the United States. The right’s growth, and its agenda -- which revolved around so-called traditional family values issues including, but not limited to, opposition to abortion and full equality for gays and lesbians -- was pursued on two tracks: they built multi-million dollar political and media enterprises, and they made themselves an indispensable force within the Republican Party.

More recently, a number of observers have pointed out that the conservative evangelical movement’s political power has been diminishing. The deaths of long-time leaders such as Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy, the coming to a close of the George W. Bush Administration, and a Republican Party presidential candidate that is less than inspirational to grassroots conservative evangelicals may indeed, as Focus on the Family’s James Dobson has stated, "represent the end of an era."

Now, as the presidential campaign heads into its final stretch, after months of equivocating a group of long-time conservative evangelical leaders have endorsed -- albeit less than enthusiastically -- Senator John McCain, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee. Meanwhile, the campaign of Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, has been going out of its way to court religious voters.

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[dsotm-wywh]

1. I consider myself more Christian than the radicals and I'm voting for Obama

He just needs to explain to them that their view of Christianity is skewed.

God said "Thou shalt not kill" so we should end the wars.

Jesus said it's a sin to judge people so they should not judge gays.

Jesus also said that we should always help people less fortunate than us which most Repubes don't understand.

I could go on but I'm typing this while I watch tv so it's hard to concentrate. Of course the Christians won't follow anything he says cause the majority of them are too self centered to actually follow what Jesus taught but maybe we'll get a few votes out of it.

[Sadie4629]

2. Oooh! Good idea!

I'm sure that once they have been enlightened in such a way, told that their view of Christianity is "skewed," they will see the error of their ways and fall at his feet in adoration, right?

This is incredibly naive. I'm willing to bet you don't know many fundies, do you?

[dsotm-wywh]

3. I was being sarcastic Sherlock

And pointing out the hypocracy(sp?) of the Christians who really aren't very Christian at all.

I just think it's so funny that true Christians should really be voting for Democrats yet all these super Christian wacko's out there are hard core Repubes.

[ingac70]

4. They don't worship the Jesus you know.

They worship Supply Side Jesus...

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/17_franken.html