Obama didn't sign Franklin Graham's dance card, Graham warns about losing "millions of evangelicals"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Franklin Graham Warns Obama: You May Lose Millions of Evangelical Votes
Posted: 05/6/10

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/06/franklin-graham-warns-obama-you-may-lose-millions-of-evangelica/

Critics of today's National Day of Prayer say the congressionally mandated tradition, which dates to 1952, has in effect become a campaign event for the Christian right that features an unseemly mix of politics and religion -- and this year evangelist Franklin Graham appears determined to bolster their arguments.

Continuing to escalate his criticisms of President Obama for not restoring Graham's rescinded invitation to a prayer event at the Pentagon, Graham has warned the president that "millions of Evangelical Christians that voted for Barack Obama in this last election" likely won't "be at the table next time" because Obama is not giving Graham and his allies their due.

Graham has been miffed that the Pentagon last month revoked his invitation to a prayer event there today after a range of religious activists complained that his repeated criticisms of Islam as "evil" and inferior to Christianity and Judaism were not appropriate for an event aimed at including everyone in a religiously diverse military that is currently waging war in largely Muslim Iraq and Afghanistan.

Graham took up the issue last week when Obama paid a courtesy call to his ailing father, Billy Graham, but as it became clear Obama would not overturn the Pentagon decision, the younger Graham this week began intensifying his public criticism of the president, saying he is "giving Islam" a pass while dissing evangelical Christians and displaying a consistent hostility to Christianity.

[WI_DEM]

1. I have my doubts that millions of evangelical christians voted for Obama

I believe many Christians did, but not of the fundie mode.

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Me too

[NotThisTime]

18. Totally agree...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

25. I'll agree with that...I have fundie friends who are 100% anti-Obama, 24/7.

As Muddy Waters once sang, "You can't lose what you never had."

[FiveGoodMen]

2. The Dem party should not chase the votes of theocrats.

[saigon68]

3. A fundamentalist nut-job feeding on the penniless poor

[customerserviceguy]

24. Uhhhh, more specific, please?

My point is, they all do this. Sell salvation that they cannot deliver, to the gullible.

[babylonsister]

4. Do evangelicals vote mindlessly like teabaggers, because

someone tells them to? I don't imagine the Prez has time to be too concerned with Graham.

[Zen Democrat]

20. The Evangelicals do love the "authority" of the pastor ...

Just like Republicans are a top-down political organization wherein the foot soldiers take their marching orders from on high without question. They are both authoritarian groups -- which is why they were good with torture and rendition, and the usurpation of the Constitution. They are all a very accepting bunch of yahoos.

[Warpy]

5. Franklin Graham overestimates his own importance to the workings

of the entire universe. He also overestimates the number of evangelicals he "commands." There are plenty of Evangelical Christians out there who have rejected the whole "god is a Republican" viewpoint of pompadoured ranters on TV and Graham would have a hard time selling it to them now.

Franklin is no Billy.

[edbermac]

6. You mean the Robertson/Falwell crowd voted for Obama!?

Color me speechless.

:wow::wow::wow::wow::wow::wow:

[T Wolf]

10. They were the same as the Jews who voted for PatB in Florida in 2000. nt

[mzteris]

7. Franklin Graham's a greedy sob... that is all. n/t

[GoneOffShore]

8. FFG -

Fuck Franklin Graham

[LiberalAndProud]

9. I'll bet Franklin Graham followers didn't vote for Obama once.

So I'll not worry if they're not at the table next time.

[southernyankeebelle]

11. Franklin you are not your father. Take your marbles and go home.

[Botany]

12. Hey Franklin you can not lose what you never had.

Obama is one of the most true Christian men going .... you know he gave up millions to help
his follow man as a community organizer ...... but the 18 to 26 % of the country who are dumb
ass snake handlers who think Sarah Palin is a gift from God and that W got the O.K. to start his
war in Iraq from Jesus will never support Obama because they are watching Fox and going to
tea parties.

Franklin should learn from his Dad about when it is time to shut up.

[JuniperLea]

13. Gee... I thought bearing false witness was one of the top ten sins!

Pants on fire! All the Fundies I know hate Obama with a fiery passion! Yeah, hating is a sin too, but, whatever. :eyes:

[ChickMagic]

14. Poor little fella

[Rex]

15. Congress should never make mandates about required religion, right?

Or am I going to be told it is 'tradition' and all the hypocrisy that goes with it is okay just this one time.

[Deep13]

16. I offer this to those evangelical voters from the bottom of my heart.

[Ian David]

19. Franklin QQ much? n/t

[Angry Dragon]

21. They can not pray on their own??

I do not understand the hostility!!

They claim they want to save souls yet the demean everyone that does not think the same way they do. This causes defiance in people. I thought their god promoted inclusion to everyone yet they attack everyone. If I was a thinking man I would have to ask myself why I would want to be like them and be hateful towards everyone. Just a thought......that might be a mistake ...not suppose to think for myself I will have to stop that......

[Dappleganger]

22. Whatchya gonna do, Franklin...excommunicate him??

You're not the damn Pope (who, btw, is too busy trying to cover his sexual predator/priests asses).

[Zoeisright]

23. So Franklin has a pissy little tantrum, huh? What a prick.

Go away, little Franklin.

[DearAbby]

26. Well I am crushed...C R U S H E D

you're not getting the attention you so crave...hey wait a minute, what does EGO have to do with God's work?

[Greybnk48]

27. LOL! How many evangelicals ARE there in the US???

That Obama could lose millions! HAHAHAHA!!

[RainDog]

28. Fundamentalists are NOT christianity

but they think they are. actually, they think they're the one true christianity and everyone else is going to hell, even if they're christians.

this is the truth about them.

I know this is the truth about them b/c this is what they taught me when I was a child.

Then I grew up and found out they were perverts, as in perverters of christian teachings. they've gotten more and more perverted over the years until now they are the rent-boys of the right wing.