I will keep saying the same thing. Do not under estimate Obama’s skill as a pure politician. It is my belief he is coming directly after the evangelical vote. He will take it as an enormous victory if he is able to gain 25% of that vote. If you listen to his theological language it is very strong and profoundly Christian. I do not think it is an accident that he has picked a fight with James Dobson. Dobson is already in conflict with some of the evangelical governing bodies and it would be Obama’s political dream to wedge the evangelical community on social activism and the environment.
Be careful what you wish for, McCain wanted Obama to go to Iraq. George Will predicted a few months ago that McCain would regret being seen as pushing Obama in that direction. It is my belief that people who want to attack Obama on cultural and religious grounds are walking into a similar trap. This is the area that he has had to deal with most of his political life. The Warren interviews are a set up right from the beginning. They are intended to showcase Obama’s Christian formation. It is his strength not his weakness. It is also possible, although I am simply guessing, that McCain runs the risk of appearing shallow and uninformed on Christian life. In the meantime, nobody is spending the time to take a hard look at the inherent weakness of Obama’s liberal policy formation.
I hear you, but 20 years at the "God D*mn America!" church will undo a lot of his efforts.
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I hear you, and I sort of agree. But, I think that Obama already has something like 25% of the evangelical vote. The fact that Warren could get such a large number of evangelical churches to participate in his movement is evidence of how much the evangelical community has changed since Reagan’s first election (1980). At our church the youngest voters are probably already Obama supporters.