Ask yourself why James Dobson decided to vote for John McCain once Palin, an evangelical, was added to the ticket.

Ask yourself what happens if evangelicals get a say in picking our next Supreme Court Justices, which they are determined to do through their political activism and support of candidates.

You can disagree, but please don't say evangelicals are irrelevant to this election or the future course of government.

Her views and knowledge of world events is troubling and she refuses to answer questions or clarify.

By contrast, Barack Obama confronted the Jeremiah Wright issue and explained the nuances of foreign policy (and race) in many, many interviews, debates and his Philadelphia speech...he has delineated which parts of his public policy are shaped by his religious beliefs and which parts of his religious beliefs are personal.  He had already pre-explained his reasons for joining the church (he wanted to help the poor in his community) with a chapter in his autobiography.

I'm comfortable that Obama knows what he's talking about especially in regards to foreign policy and terrorism.  

As one Rabbi said:

"It is possible for a Jew to no longer be Jewish by converting to another faith. And that is essentially what I believe Jews for Jesus do when they proclaim a belief in Jesus. It is simply not possible to remain Jewish and accept Jesus."Rabbi Eric Eisenkramer

This is the standard view as also expressed here:
"Similarly, so long as one believes that Jesus was anything more than a human being who lived and died around 2,000 years ago, that person cannot convert TO Judaism, and become a Jew. The two faiths of Judaism and Christianity are simply mutually exclusive and incompatible.

The "Jews for Jesus" are not Jews. Originally founded by a very old organization known as The American Board Of Missions To The Jews, as their San Francisco office, they changed their name to "Jews" for Jesus, as the newest technique in missionizing the Jews to Christianity. Were you to compare the theology of the "Jews" for Jesus with the theology of the Southern Baptist Convention, you would see no difference. Compare the statements of faith of the Messianic "Jewish" Alliance of America (whose original name was the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America), with the statement of faith from the Southern Baptist Convention. Both the MJAA and the SBC have web sites.

Christian missionaries (and this includes the "Jews" for Jesus, the Messianic "Jews," and the "Hebrew" Christians) claim that this deceptive technique originates with Paul, in I Corinthians 9:20, where he says that it is okay to pretend to be anything, so long as it gets converts to Christianity. One can also see this in Phillipians 1:18. Furthermore, it is expanded in the idea of Indigenous Cultural Evangelism. This is the name to the missionary technique which says so long as you make the targets think that they can be both a Christian and whatever they were before their conversion, then missionizing will be easier. See Understanding Church Growth, by Donald A. McGavran, the chapter on The Sociological Foundation.

So, the "Jews for Jesus" are merely another Christian Missionary organization, which make converts to Christianity by dressing up the Christian theology in Jewish clothing. "
http://whatjewsbelieve.org/explanation09.html

This, coming from and atheist, so take it for what it is...

If evangelicals propel McCain to victory, Dobson will demand his due, just like he did with Bush. Look at his effect on Harriet Miers' supreme court nomination -- and what Charles Schumer said about the promise Dobson and his fellow fundamentalists extracted from Bush before his re-election.

Sen. Schumer was emphatic in his remarks to us. He said the hard right, both economic and religious, has decided that the only way to push their agenda through is to control the courts. If they win and gain control of the courts, both economically and socially, they will roll back America to the 1930's or the 1890's.

He said that the hard right made a deal with George Bush during the election. It would support him and "not hound him", but he had to cede control of his judicial nominations to the Federalist Society.

The first "Jews for Jesus" sign I ever saw was in Lakeland, FL, outside of Tampa in the early 80's. In 2007, the school board favored teaching "intelligent design" alongside evolution.

Now, they're a joke in the sense they're not dangerous, like Jihadists would be.  But they ARE offensive, telling me my Judaism counts for nothing because I don't accept Jesus.

Now, We survived the Spanish Inquisition, Russian Pogroms and the Holocaust, so we'll easily survive this group.