CNSNews.com reports on an interesting ad campaign:
“America is a country of strong families and strong values,” says a political ad that began airing in 18 states over the weekend. The candidate then goes on to say how he helped move people off the welfare rolls and fought for tax cuts.
It almost sounds like a typical Republican campaign commercial — except this is the first national ad aired by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama since he effectively secured his party’s nomination earlier this month.
The story goes on to quote Tony Campolo, a sociology professor at Eastern University, who speculates that Obama will win 35 to 36 percent of the evangelical vote.
“The older evangelicals, I think about 80 percent, will vote for John McCain even though they aren’t thrilled with him, simply because of the pro-life issue alone,” Campolo, who is also a member of the Democratic National Committee’s platform committee, told CNSNews.com.
“The younger evangelicals are looking at poverty, the AIDS crisis, the environment and war,” he said. “They give those issues almost as much weight as they give gay marriage and abortion.”
Are they unaware that John McCain is the nominee? Even a Cliff Notes version of this election cycle would remind folks that John McCain is no Tom Tancredo or Ron Paul.
If you’re a pro-life and pro-family evangelical, but agree with the Democrats on the enviroment and poverty and the AIDS crisis, you need be in no dilemma. You vote for John McCain.
McCain is on the left on the environment. He’s emphatic about climate change. Much more so than I want, in fact. Regarding the AIDS crisis, have people forgotten that George W. Bush has opened much more AIDS funding for Africa than anyone had dreamed possible?
Poeple need to throw away this media-driven cartoon version of the GOP. This is not the world of Charles Dickens. John McCain is no Scrooge.
