Be sure to bring your kazoo:
Sen. Barack Obama's team will continue its aggressive outreach to evangelical voters at the Democratic National Convention next week. Making a prime-time appearance Thursday night will be Joel C. Hunter, a Florida megachurch pastor who will deliver the convention's closing prayer following Obama's speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination.
Hunter is a registered Republican, opposes abortion and, at one point, had been chosen to lead the Christian Coalition. He has not endorsed Obama and says he agreed to give the benediction because has was asked to do so. For years he has agitated for evangelicals to refuse to align themselves with any one political party and has been a part of the so-called new evangelical movement interested in getting away from traditional culture war flashpoints.
I'm tired of the traditional culture war flashpoints, too.
So can't we just agree that reproductive freedom for women is a good thing?
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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The Democrats Do Not Deserve Women's Votes
They clearly don't want them or feel they need them. Everyone gets something but the wimmin folk.
Gore won women 54-43% in 2000. Kerry only won women by 3 points (51-48) in 2004. Both candidate lost men by the same amount (11%). In 2004, women made up 54% of the vote. If Kerry had done as well as Gore, by my math, that would've added 3.24% on to Kerry's vote total and he would be running for his second term.
The Dems didn't lose in 2004 because they didn't appeal to evangelicals, they lost because they didn't win women by a large enough margin. Not that the current crop is ever going to admit that.
A shame
Too bad there are no big Christian Democratic preachers who could give such a big speech...now that the Democrats are proving that "religion" and "faith" are "not just" for Republicans...oh wait...
Women control their own bodies? Okay but only in consultation with their husbands and pastors...
And Not For Nothing
more Americans support abortion rights, so if you're trolling for votes, you'd think you'd want to do it in the larger pool.
Most Americans also love birth control, with 67% thinking it should be given out by schools (although they split on parental consent), but that hasn't stopped the Dems from agreeing to continue abstinence only education or, with a few exceptions, being deafeningly silent on the recent HHS regs. that would make access to birth control more difficult. Even a lot of evangelicals use birth control.
But, hey, instead of standing up for what's popular and right, why not throw your lot in with the women haters club.
This screams for an image, like the deck chair
Why Doesn't...?
Why doesn't Obama simply merge the RNC & DNC conventions in some city between Denver and St. Paul, say Omaha? He might as well just offer a speaking role to James Dobson.
Hillary's folks had to fight just to give her half of the Democratic Party a role at the convention, and Obama is just giving away roles to Republicans at the convention. Kind of makes you think he may not have the party's interest in mind, no?
Does he seriously think
he's going to appeal to those evangelical voters?
Has he ever been in or seen (other than TUCC) one of those mega churches? He doesn't quite fit the profile for most of them, and of course, he's just pissed off the pro-choice female Dem voters. Man, he's battin' a thousand!
Same Guy
This is the same guy, though, that bragged that he could put places like Georgia, North Carolina, Wyoming, and every other one of our 57 states into play this election, so, I'm sure he probably believes that everyone is capable of loving him.