I went back to read your post to see if I had covered all the points and I discovered a statement I wish I had used. “The good man wins his case by careful argument; the evil-minded only wants to fight. Prov. 13:2)” I think Obama is a master tactician and everyone seems to be rushing full speed into the trap that he is setting. I believe he wants to debate the very things we claim he is avoiding. As I said in another post, I think he is even setting up some cards to play so that he can appear to be the reasonable man on the abortion issue. I believe he will advocate some direct funding for faith groups with a view to reducing the number of abortions and encouraging adoptions. He will do it in a way where he does lose a single vote on the left whole making some gains among the right. It is naive to underestimate this guy.
I meant to answer this days ago. Sorry. Very good points!
But, I will have to disagree with you, that these issues don’t matter. I believe all of the issues matter. Put together they show a pattern. A pattern that when sewed up, will be one horrible garment that we will have to wear.
But, point taken that we should not underestimate Obama. Trouble we are having, I think is that we underestimated John McCain!