So says Gary McCullough:
Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire, has called Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s attack on Focus on the Family president James Dobson a “political blunder” that could have a significant impact on Evangelical swing voters who were otherwise lukewarm towards Obama’s opponent, Sen. John McCain.
Sen. McCain’s past ambivalence towards same-sex marriage and embryonic stem cell research, McCullough wrote, had not excited the hard core of evangelicals.
“The evangelical community had been fairly unimpressed by John McCain. But Obama has shown a grave lack of political wisdom: he did not let this sleeping dog lie,” McCullough said in an opinion piece published on Christian Newswire.
Dr. James Dobson’s June 24 radio show critiqued Obama’s use of Scripture in justifying his political policies and positions. The next day Obama responded to the evangelical leader’s critique by saying that Dobson was “making stuff up,” which McCullough said was “an indirect way of calling Dobson a liar.”
McCullough said Obama’s treatment of Dobson eliminated any sympathy Obama would have received for the attacks on his religious associations, such as his long relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama’s remarks also would be perceived as an insult towards “the single, most powerful influence on evangelicals,” he claimed.
Dr. James Dobson’s radio show reaches about 1.7 million listeners.
“His mistake could prove to make the difference in November — in favor of McCain,” McCullough wrote.
No doubt about it, my Evanglical brothers and sisters haven’t been lighting bonfires for McCain – but if Obama’s plan was to turn a so/so Evangelical vote for McCain into a Bush-like GOP blowout, then its working out splendidly. Obama does have this problem – outside the highly scripted and friendly venue, he’s apt to say uber-left things which sound outrageous to everyone who isn’t a leftist (“bitter”, eg). Victor Davis Hanson, observing the massive weaknesses of Obama, notes that one of Obama’s primary efforts will have to be insulating himself from the public, his past associations, Chicago Democratic corruption, his thin resume’ and, indeed, pretty much everything there is to Obama other than his puerile “hope and change” mantra…as long as Obama can keep it vague, he’s got a solid shot at winning. McCain’s job – and ours – is to make it crystal clear.
As I’ve said before, Obama is the “un-named Democrat” of 2004 made flesh – he’s boundlessly ambitious and has a smoothness about him most actors would envy, but there’s really nothing to him. He really is the empty suit – he’s done nothing, achieved nothing, which would indicate an ability to carry the massive weight of the Presidency. But this emptiness has its advantage – you can hang on him anything you like, and the left – being made up of people who believe feelings are as important as facts – feels that Obama is the answer to all their hopes and dreams. We’ve got Obama Wan Kenobi telling us to “trust our feelings” – ’cause the facts aren’t on our side. And so – facts are anethema…we’re supposed to feel it will be good and feel good about feeling that feeling…and thus elect Obama.
In our favor is a man who is deeply rooted in the some times harsh facts of life, regardless of what he might feel at the moment. John McCain is the antidote to Obamania…the cool gust of reality to clear out the hackneyed, suffocating, mealy-mouthed platitudes of Obama.
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