The Wrath of Dobson
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Today's Focus on the Family broadcast has not yet aired, but it's already making waves:
As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program, comes shortly after an Obama aide suggested a meeting at the organization's headquarters here, said Tom Minnery, senior vice president for government and public policy at Focus on the Family.
Abortion, in particular, will likely plague Obama when it comes to the religious vote. As William McGurn notes in today's Wall Street Journal, the Obama campaign's much-ballyhooed Catholic/evangelical outreach project has some serious land mines in its path when it comes to the Senator's past votes:
Mr. Obama is for using tax dollars to fund abortions, and against restrictions on partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, he voted against legislation protecting a child who was born alive despite an abortion.
That last vote is particularly macabre, and certainly can't help. And while some--including writers at the New York Times--think that McCain won't bring it up, I wouldn't be so sure.

