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Prayer video that sought a Barack Obama drenching gets yanked
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 8/13/2008
Prayer video that sought a Barack Obama drenching gets yanked
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Political lesson of the day: Be careful what you ask people to pray for; you may find yourself embroiled in a public relations flap. The political arm of the socially conservative Focus on the Family religious group today yanked from its website a video that called on folks to ask God to open the heavens and let precipitation pour on Barack Obama just before his nomination acceptance ...

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Sister Toldjah — ... —– Focus On The Family has pulled an embarassing video from its website which featured director of digital media director Stuart Shepard jokingly asking people to pray for “rain of biblical proportions” during Obama’s DNC nomination acceptance speech.  As expected, Obama apologist Andrew Sullivan, who is always looking for creative ways to insert his term “Christianist” into the debate,  ...

Christian group pulls anti-Obama video
The Swamp — ... candidate, although he grudgingly said he may support Sen. John McCain. The group pulled the video, following complaints from members of the organization who said prayer should not be used to wish harm on another. Shepard defended the video as "mildly" funny. "It's called hyperbole," Shepard said, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. "It is meant to be humorous." (Read more about the Focus on the Family anti-Obama video at Top of the Ticket.)

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