Did Obama say anything that'll work the Religious Right up into a froth?

If so, what was it?

If not, then was this a good strategy for Obama to keep them at bay for the rest of the campaign? These groups thrive on fear, and Obama went on record with them early on. The faith forum seems like a dumb move on it's surface, but thinking ahead in what usually happens in Dem campaigns: Opposition picks a hot-button issue to motivate the religious right base. Dem candidate tries to avoid the issue, and spends the rest of the campagin ducking, bobbing and weaving.

Obama just nipped that in the bud. I don't see him having to play defense with the religious right anymore.

would say some of the things Obama said about Jesus

THE ANTI-CHRIST!

but they are jumping all over it because McCain said life began at conception - one word answer.

This will be what the RW latches on to.

I still think Obama did a weak job of responding to the questions. He's got to tighten up his responses. It's show time.

I watched it twice but the Chicken Littles on here are acting like the world is coming to an end because McCain got applause from the Fundies when he said he was against gay people and abortion. :shrug:

and on the Presidency (Matthew 25:35 re taking care of society)He didn't quote scripture, but this is the scripture that he was referencing - the Bible crowd would have recognized it.

The pre-judging crowd should be frothing at the mouth this a.m.

shutting up the fundy pastors spewing lies about him not being a Christian. And personally, I think his appearance probably gained him some votes--even the most fanatic are realizing a couple of things: 1. The GOP talks a good talk about abortion and gays but hasn't done a thing about either, even when they held the majority in Congress; 2.The country is so screwed up right now that voters need to look at the broad issues and not concentrate on one issue only.

already appealing to. They'd have liked his thoughtful answers.

Jerry Falwell himself could hardly have put us perverts in our place any better.

Who would have guessed?

On everything else he sounded like a grad student grinding his way through orals, but on that one he had a concise, crowd-pleasing answer readily at hand.

intrigued by a certain line of attack because Obama gave such a heated answer to one question he was asked right after the forum.

Jake Tapper commented on it

Obama Accuses Anti-Abortion Opponents of "Lying"

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/08/obama-accuses-a.html

and there's a link to his earlier piece about this, way back in January:

The Abortion Vote the GOP is Planning to Use to Bring Down Obama

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/01/the-abortion-vo.html

I don't know if I've ever seen Obama give such a heated answer.

Heated answers accusing your opponents of lying work when the audience already agrees with you. But questions that lead to heated answers can be exploited by political opponents when the audience includes undecided voters.

Anyway, this is an issue again because of a new NRLC attack on Obama this past week:

http://nrlc.org/ObamaBAIPA/


I hope the Obama campaign will soon have a VERY detailed, thorough response to this on its website, if it isn't there already, and then Obama can deflect these questions very coolly by simply referring people to that web page.

for certain legislation that's not as much designed to pass, as it is to use as ammo for opposing candidates later.

Called Obama his friend and also vouched for the fact that Obama is a Christian. Mission accomplished as far as I am concerned.

There he sat, gettin' all uppity with the breathing. Blatantly sitting there......in-and-out, in-and-out endlessly! It was totally annoying.

Then he had to nerve to speak! Acting all at ease, as though he isn't the anti-Christ himself! At that point I turned it off, I just couldn't take it.

As if he's talking to us in subliminimial code.

fundies like black and white answers. Especially to "life begins at conception" type questions.

His answer, when explained, should be - well - not acceptable to the pro-life fundie, but not easy to point to, either.

this is not a thoughtful, analytical crowd.

it's what they do. :eyes:

I don't think he meant to say it the way he did, but it did sound pretty bad.

Hopefully they don't replay audio files much. It wasn't as big a problem during the primaries since most Democrats are pro-choice.