Obama Courting Evangelicals Once Loyal to Bush - NYTimes.com:
“Between now and November, the Obama forces are planning as many as 1,000 house parties and dozens of Christian rock concerts, gatherings of religious leaders, campus visits and telephone conference calls to bring together voters of all ages motivated by their faith to engage in politics. It is the most intensive effort yet by a Democratic candidate to reach out to self-identified evangelical or born-again Christians and to try to pry them away from their historical attachment to the Republican Party.”
Notwithstanding the important points raised here by Ludditerobot about the Supreme Court, I do have to basically agree with Tony’s comments the other day about Obama’s shameless pandering. That, and I find anyone trying to appeal to Christian Evangelists as scary as hell. I’m thinking that we need fewer of these end-times nutjobs around rather than more, but what do I know? I actually find evolution and photosynthesis and, like, science compelling.
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Thanks for the link. And, yeah, Obama’s sure not making it easy to lend him even provisional support. I’m with Greenwald here: mix in FISA, the rejection of marriage equality, this Jesus-y business, the waffling on marijuana decriminalization, an Iraq plan that seems increasingly identical to Petraeus’ that Bush has already accepted …
“Shameless” is definitely the operative. Also “tone-deaf” — moving to the “center” (such as it is in American politics) is the opposite of what most people want right now, I think. Maybe the Dems can once again steal defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s what they do best, after all.
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