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July 2, 2008 11:31 AM

Radio Spot Highlights Obama's Religious Side

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Brian Montopoli
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A Political Action Committee overseen by the director of religious outreach for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign is running an ad on Christian radio defending presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama.

The ad will run starting today on radio stations in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where Obama speaks about national service this morning. Colorado Springs is the home of Focus on the Family, whose conservative evangelical leader, James Dobson, suggested last week that Obama is "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology."

"You know it's an election year when certain people start grabbing headlines by attacking the faith of Presidential candidates," says a narrator in the spot. "With all these stones being cast at Senator Obama, it can be hard to know what to believe. But in Luke, Jesus taught us that we must listen to what a man says because 'out of the overflow of his heart, his mouth speaks.'"

Obama then offers what the narrator characterizes as "words from [his] heart":

"I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in people's lives," he says. "Kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt that I heard God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth."

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The group behind the spot, The Matthew 25 Network, held a fundraiser in June in which it said it was looking to reach out to "targeted religious communities that are key to electoral success for Senator Obama, including Catholics, moderate evangelicals, Hispanic Catholics and Protestants," according to the New York Times.

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by seah5 July 3, 2008 3:22 AM EDT
The Obama cult unfolding

But do not forget he bases his religion on Black liberation Theology. A religion that has only been around 30 years.

Listen to what black liberation theology is.

http://www.culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/james_cone_on_black_liberation_theology

Then you will see Obama is playing peoples religion against them all for a vote.

He is a Demon more than a Saint.
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by allison2008a July 2, 2008 7:33 PM EDT
This is such a joke. Evangelicals don''t trust Obama. He will certainly put forth faith based whatevers, which will be apprehended in court by the ACLU and struck down by the judges. To which Obama will turn to the evangelicals, shrug and say, "Hey, I tried to keep my promise."
Heck. BUSH can''t get faith based initiatives through congress and the courts. A liberal wacko like Obama certainly won''t have better luck.
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by elevando July 2, 2008 6:33 PM EDT
Yeah, that should work nicely after he told his former pastor to take a flying leap. You have to be kidding me.

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by qtpi1020 July 2, 2008 5:21 PM EDT
This funny website I found has a cool feature about Obama and the religious vote. It cracked me up: http://www.236.com/news/2008/07/01/the_barack_obama_evangelical_b_7478.php
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by qtpi1020 July 2, 2008 5:16 PM EDT
This funny website I found has a cool feature about Obama and the religious vote. It cracked me up: http://www.236.com/news/2008/07/01/the_barack_obama_evangelical_b_7478.php
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by gocubs58 July 2, 2008 5:05 PM EDT
Posted by JTait2 - Obama''''s sister is on the campaign trail, But Not the sister on his biological fathers side. This is the part of the family we want to meet and so far Obama doesn''''t even want to acknowledge them let alone introduce them to us.

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Point me to a (credible) link that backs up the information in your post (please, not an Obama hate site). You state that he has a lot of questions to answer - what questions? Be more specific please.
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by gocubs58 July 2, 2008 4:56 PM EDT
Posted by jack3213: If McCain had spent one day in a Church where the sermon was hatred of the USA, he would not be a candidate.
Obama spends 20 YEARS in such a church and people don''''t care or want to forget.

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Ok Obama haters, which "spin" is it this week? Is he Muslim, or is he a member of USA-hater church? It wouldn''t make sense if he were both and yet I see the same posters posting both. Just proves that it is nothing but negative "spin" - since your candidate has nothing to offer, why not bring down the opposition?

Also, you are calling his church anti-US based on ONE sermon. You are also saying Obama is guily by association, which is a load of BS.
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by jack3213 July 2, 2008 3:13 PM EDT
If McCain had spent one day in a Church where the sermon was hatred of the USA, he would not be a candidate.

Obama spends 20 YEARS in such a church and people don''t care or want to forget.

What a bunch of zero-heads.



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