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Evangelist accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible
Added 801 days ago on June 24th, 2008
A top U.S. evangelical leader is accusing Sen. Barack Obama of deliberately distorting the Bible and taking a "fruitcake interpretation" of the U.S. Constitution.
In comments aired on his radio show Tuesday, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson criticized the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for comments he made in a June 2006 speech to the liberal Christian group Call to Renewal.
In the speech, Obama suggested that it would be impractical to govern based solely on the word of the Bible, noting that some passages suggest slavery is permissible and eating shellfish is disgraceful.
"Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?" Obama asked in the speech. "Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the Mount?
"So before we get carried away, let's read our Bible now," Obama said, to cheers. "Folks haven't been reading their Bible."

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Posted by: wcrb
4:22pm, June 28th, 2008
Re: Evangelist accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible
Since the first primary and caucus, Americans have been split politically, socially and racially.

Consider reasons why Barach Obama is the candidate for Democrats in the Whitehouse. The larger number of African-Americans, who registered for the first time and voted; these are people of all age groups.Include in Obama's current numbers of popularity the younger people [non-African-American] who did the same thing.....registered and voted for the first time.

Now this is not to say that all the new African-American and mixed-age group voters are not welcome in the American process; they are. But where will these very people be in the months ahead....and after the election when they see how poorly and ineffective their earlier choice will have become, what then? The entire country will be left with no options because the rally of color and youth played their cards.
But wait.
Polls, talk show hosts, their guests and spin jockeys everywhere including the Barach Obama machine are making their predictions. But here are the facts: Predictions from all of these quarters are inaccurate. Why? There are no constants, only changes and there are FOUR:
[1]Opinions,
[2]Skewed questions, (Asked in a way to result in the contrived answer)
[3]Demographics (population differences in size, social class, ethnicity and race and yes, …even neighborhood)
[4]attitudes of the participant [a] how I approach the question estimated guessing [c] Straight talk.
CONSIDER: only 12% of the American population is Black. This can't be the block which is predicting the swing for Obama.
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