James Dobson Decides To Stop Pouting Himself Out of Obscurity
By Nicole Belle Sunday Mar 30, 2008 4:49pm
Here's what James Dobson said about John McCain early last month:
Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions. If these are the nominees in November, I simply will not cast a ballot for president for the first time in my life.
Now, Dobson's changing his tune. Focus on the Family action just sent a "special alert" to its backers, with a subject line that retracts Dobson's vow to stay home come Election Day: "Dr. Dobson: 'I Will Certainly Vote'." Here's what the alert says:
Dr. James Dobson told Sean Hannity on Sunday night he is going to vote in the November election – ending weeks of speculation that he would sit on the sidelines over his policy disagreements with the two major parties’ candidates for the White House.
Weeks of speculation that he would sit on the sidelines? That wasn't speculation. That's what Dobson said.
Wait, you're expecting him to stand by his words? *snort* Is it me, or is everything surrounding McCain just one giant set of flip flops?
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"Virulently anti-family"!? Dobson is nuts.
This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IldaegAB0 is what Dobson is against? Someone tell me what the hell kind of God Dobson prays to, because I am not familiar with him.
Share this video with everyone you know. This is what is at stake. Something truly amazing is happening and we can't let them destroy it!
To be "pro-life" and support war is to be the supreme hypocrite.
Dobson is such a nasty piece of work. I wish he would somehow be forced to retire from public life, via natural causes or otherwise.
What a self-important moron.
Leslie @ 2:
Yeah, don't you know the pro-family thing for Hillary to have done is divorce Bill?
Dobson is just one more of the easily blackmailed and bought off suits responsible for this mess we're in.
And why was there even any 'speculation' as to his choice? Why does this dillweed even matter in this day and age?
Maybe if we ignore him he'll just go away.
I think it is hilarious that all of the far right people that said they would never, ever, support McCain have all been changing their tune, now that McCain is their only choice within the party. I anxiously await more of this to come, and of course they will all act like they never said horrible, ugly things about McCain in the past.
I imagine there have been some back and forth phone calls to and from the McCain camp and promises have been made to Dobson. Those promises probably involved a promise for conservative judicial nominees.
has this fool actually read the bible?
Ladies and gents, I give you James Dobson: Pratfalling Gymnast!!!
See him flip! Right into an outrageously entertaining flop! All for YOU, the paying public, playing tribute to the hallowed days of juggling, tumbling, and general clowning!
And p.o.p. @ 11:
No bloody doubt!
It was all bs.
They will always vote gop for the judges and pro life.
Shouldn't his tax-exempt status be revoked considering he consistently uses his religious position to pander politics?
pissed off patricia @ 11:
If (god forbid) McaCain gets elected, the interesting question will be whether his actions hew to the public stance of Pre-candidate McCain, or Candidate McCain.
The good Rev. wouldn't lie to us would he? Oops, looks like he did. Oh well I guess nothing else matters as long as you are anti abortion and anti gay rights.
McCain has to walk a fine line here. He has to appeal to independents, the religious right wing and the republicans who are at their wits end with bush.
DHSmd @ 16:
I think that's what worries a lot of republicans from all sides of the party. The dems have to demonstrate McCain's past comments and actions with his more recent ones and also connect those to elections at the time.
But will Dobson be entering the voting booth nude with a young boy in tow, to teach him the manly virtues of the democratic process?
Caption:
"My friends, I am gonna put hope in one hand and sh!t in the other...
Lets see which one fills up first"
Dr. Hussien Matt @ 15:
Yeah, I'd like to see the Bushies do that.
Dobson's a turd. But I'm still getting over Mitt Romney. He was the Grand Poobah of Flip-Flopping.
Biff Limbaugh @ 12:
Probably not. It's not necessary when all you really want to do is make a fortune and build political power by exploiting simpletons.
Dobson is even more dangerous than Hagee or Parsley because a lot of "Christians" LISTEN to Dobson. I'm not surprised that he's calling the Democrats "anti-family" because, by his standards, they are. Dobson believes in an Old Testament kind of family, where the father is the only authority, the wife is barefoot and pregnant and quiet, and the kids are beaten regularly. His idea of "family" is as outdated as horse-drawn carriages.
Why are so many so-called "Christians" so filled with hate for everybody? Why do "followers" of the Prince of Peace so frequently support warfare and bigotry? I think the reason so many "Christians" hate and fear the Islamic faith because they know what is in their own hearts and what they think THEIR god wants of them: they know their own religion is hate-filled and death-spewing, so they naturally assume it to be true of other religions.
If Christ really lived and really was the son of god, then I'm sure he would detest American "Christians"--at least, those who listen to the likes of Dobson and follow him.
Dobson used to have a hell of a time with the levers on the old voting machines.
Much easier with touch-screens, but the naked youth beside him still needs a stool to stand on and hit the mark with Dobson.
Just a test.
Yet another LIE from the evangelical leadership.
Dobson says he won't cast a vote one month. The next month he says the exact opposite.
If it were John Kerry Fox news would be shouting 'flip flopper' 24/7 until the end of the election.
I can't stand these hypocrites.
Space Coyote @ 7:
And Obama clearly doesn't beat his wife and kids enough for Dobson's liking.
Go on Bill - if the current mob of candidates are not worth voting for, contest the election yourself as a candidate.
Then again, probably not. Wont have the courage to stand for his views......
pissed off patricia @ 17:
That's too fine a line to walk. You can't kiss up to wacko religious conservatives....while trying to appeal to independents and moderates. Won't work. You need to choose one of the two groups and hope for the best. By trying to score with both...you'll get neither.
I want to know why Dobson has changed his mind and suddenly thinks McCain is OK to vote for now?
Has McCain changed since last month?
Are all those things that Dobson didn't like about McCain, are those things OK now? Or is Dobson just willing to vote despite what he believes about McCain just for political reasons?
Apparantly Dobson's 'faith' is based more on politics than anything.
James "Family-Values-Begin-in-the-Shower" Dobson isn't afraid of any of you heretics.
You don't know what you're talking about until you've got into the shower with James "Look-How-Big-My-Tool-Is-Compared-To-Yours" Dobson.
This is how Jesus American Christ spreads the gospel.
Now grab a towel and wait your turn on the shower bench.
(Reallly, is there any reason to regard this man in any other way? He's insane.)
pissed off patricia @ 18:
I'd be careful with that. Working that angle could encourage the so-called "Reagan Democrats" who are wavering to side with McCain in a general election. I think it is best the Democrats just let that sleeping dog lie. My main point in bringing it up was as a source of small comfort in the event we are faced with a McCain victory in November. (I can't believe I even typed that last phrase.)
Wait! Wait! He didn't say for whom he'd vote. The lemmings will have to wait until he decides for them. Oh, cruel fate!
McCain Flip Flop? His entire casting as a moderate is an orchestrated spin begun and strategized way back in the late 1990's.
McCain was president of New Citizenship Project (with William 'the bloody' Kristol as Chairman of the Board). This org under MCinsane funded and provided the original seed money to start PNAC. NCP shares the same DC suite and phone number as PNAC.
MCinsane is worst of the worst neo-cons and is by his very roots as far right as they come. The entire framing of him as moderate and opposed to Bush is a planned deception by the puppet masters and the complicit mainstream media.
Dobson, Limbaugh, Coulter etc and their much ballyhooed aversion to MCinsane is all part of the deception to make him more palatable to gullible fence sitters and Regan Democrats.
This is the truth folks. Spread the word and help stop the reality they have been trying to create about NEO-CON MCinsane. It's all smoke mirrors and BS. Don't forget who we are dealing with, the smartest most far sighted manipulative political minds of all times. Everything is orchestrated to deceive and to spin us so far our heads fall off.
New Citizenship Project
Interesting strategy. "I'm going to withhold my vote, in a purely symbolic gesture, but the clods, dimwits AND the morons who listen to me are also going to not vote. Subtracting 700,000* votes from McCain will show everybody who's the boss." Right. A Democrat. I can see why he changed his mind. Somebody must have clued him in that McCain will have a hard enough time as it is, and if he can't count on the Dobsonites, he may be toast. Maybe he agreed to let Dobson vet judicial nominees, like Bush let him do. Or was it Falwell or Robertson? All the same underneath.
*Purely a wild guess. It could be 10 or 10 million.
"Let's T.P. the world!"
He was better when he was writing books on how not to raise your kids gay...
Much as I disagree with Dobson and the candidate I'm about to name it is possible that he's going to vote for Ron Paul.
I dunno... I was at the edge of my seat waiting to see whether or not Mr. D would vote in this election. Whew! Well, THAT'S a load off my mind!
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=james+dobson
Its not abuse if you hit them out of love (just like Kathy Bates in Misery)
This fucktard deserves so little respect, I hope he a closeted gay just so it can morph into some perversion due to his self-loathing nature, a nature that is earned out of greed for power, money, and influence.
Sorry... but these people make society unnatural.
Bit NOLA @ 19:
Only if he has a wide stance.
I'm going to vote for Sen. Obama. God told me to do so. AMEN ALLEUIA!!! I did not need the middle man to tell me what God thought about American politics.
If I understand this fool correctly, God told him in 2000 and 2004 to vote for a conbination mass murdering, draft dodging, traitorous, arrogant, anti-Christian, anti-Family, anti-American nincompoop. It seems that the God partyline wasn't working too well into the Dobson household. Or maybe the real God was talking to the real head of the house, Mrs. Dobson.
Id like to know who the last HONEST Republican in America was
cause he sure hasnt been around in quite a while.
He should stay home forever. My "Dobson is Dead" google alert hasn't rang yet. :(
One day, the FBI is going to find the skins of infants and children hanging off the old Dobson home rafters.
Whether or not this idiot votes is of little consequence to me. Sure, his vote will go for the repug side, as the liberals are full of hate and want to kill all the unborn if given the chance.
This guy is a total pin head. He is one vote of millions, and we need to keep the focus on the LIVING as well as the unborn. This repug direction is killing hundred of thousands...for nothing more than mistakes and "fear of losing."
Just a note: Vietnam was overrun by communists. Iraq will be given back to the Iraqis. There IS no conquering army to contend with. Give Iraq back to the Iraqis.
Maliki is already alligned with the Iranians...surprise? Unreal, our logic. Just get the hell out NOW!!
Flip-flops, lies or bullshit... take your pick.. It's all about the same with these cretins... And a guy like Dobson changing his tune??? No surprise there either... These freaks are going to circle the wagons, sling shit and continue to wage war and screw the economy and whats left of the middle class right up to and on past their sell by date... count on it...
The only real thing that is going to put a stop to this kind of shit is impeachment.. of both those cocksuckers holed up in the WH.... Win, lose or draw, that is the only action by this government that will change this broke-ass record..... And maybe force a little honesty about the actual issues out of all three candidates...maybe.... So of course, that ain't gonna happen...
So why am I even bothering.. I don't know.......Just tired of the same ol shit sammich being served up I guess.......JD
yea, the religious right is trying desperately to hold onto their political power they had under Bush.
And for all those Hillary supporters who will vote for McCain if Obama gets the nod-this is who you will be grouped with.
I dont know why all of the mega churches, who put out political statements like this, dont have the IRS knocking at the door. oops, only churches who support Dem candidates, like the UCC, get this treatment.
Why we hate Washington now.
Why I say yes we can to justice and opportunity in the future..
DHSmd @ 33:
This economy will be so bad by November, that the repuke's wouldn't be able to win if they sent everyone a $1,000,000 rebate check for Halloween (would only be worth $100 Canadian by then anyway).
Add foreclosures, health insurance status-quo, more Iraq to go along with more tax-cuts for millionaires as the staple for the GOP brand, and everyone except the most clueless Dobson following zombies are going to be thinking they are getting screwed!
Paul B. @ 24:
A few days ago the CBC mentioned that Pope Nazi acknowledged that Islam was now the widest spread religion at 19%, catholicism fell to 17%. Who wants to bet the fine outstanding "christians" of the religious right and pravda (aka faux nooz) will have a fit.
My goodness- who ever would've expected such hypocrisy and dishonesty from religious charlatan?
Yep, Dr. James "No Sex!" Dobson has done a 180. But maybe we can learn something from him, and some of us Dems can reconsider the silliness of insisting that if our candidate doesn't get the nomination, then we will either (1) not vote, or (2) vote for John "I detested Falwell and Robertson before I loved Falwell and Robertson" McCain. If a neanderthal like Dobson can understand the stupidity of electoral pouting, maybe we can too.
Why can't this guy get a third party wingnut candidate? That would be like manna from heaven.
Emma Hussein Goldman @ 52:
In Oregon, we had a group called "Oregon Citizen's Alliance" that tossed a close gubernatorial election to the Democrats by running a nutcase named Al Mobley for governor, because OCA and its religious right members were having a hissy fit over the fact that the Republican candidate (Dave Frohnmayer) was pro-choice. What the Oregon GOP learned from that experience (in 1990, I believe), is that the GOP candidate has to be a loony right winger, so that a 3rd party can't run to the right of the GOP. They haven't won a gubernatorial election since, and are almost non-existent in statewide races (except for Sen. Gordon Smith, and we are hoping to unseat him in November).
So yes, Emma, a religious right 3rd party at the national level would be delightful. Perhaps James Dobson himself would like to run . . .
Old Billy Hussein @ 28:
Yeah, his wife and kids are too uppity and self-confident to be "good Christians".
It's all part of the aura of Flippism (a self-help program invented by Carl Barks in Donald Duck comics wherein all problems in life are solved by flipping a coin) that surrounds the man I like to call "John McCoin" -- Heads Today, Tails Tomorrow.
Please Dobson , stay home , don't vote.
Petulant child-like behavior...hallmark of the "New Stupidity" infesting this country...
I live 60 miles from Dobson's headquarters, and I know some of the wackos who are heavy into his con. But I have to say that stating he won't cast a ballot for president and also stating that he will vote are not mutually exclusive events, Folks do such things all the time. There are a lot of items on the ballot, and everyone is welcome to pick and choose which items they'd like to vote on, and which ones they wouldn't.
James Dobson's going to vote in November!!! Whew!!! Now I can end the hunger strike...
Thank God Dobson came through! I can sleep tonight. (<facetious comment)
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Can someone tell me who appointed Dobson the Holy Anointer of Kings?
How is forcing troops to do extended tours of duty pro-family?
gemHusseinpei @ 41:
..and a meth pipe.
Perhaps someone could locate the GOP convention footage of the crowd calling "Flip-Flop" where McCrazy is referring to Kerry, and do something with the footage interspersed with things Mcranky has flip-flopped on.
So Mullah Dobson has rescinded his anti-McShame Fatwah, huh?
Since McCain is running as McBush, I guess the Mullahs of the Christian Right can get behind him now.
Less taxes and more war; the McWarrior plan for America.
James Dobson is a great man.
I take it the reason you guys do not like him is because you must be Gay, a Non Christian or Atheist, an Unhappy Single, or raised in a Dysfunctional family. Dr. Dobson is but a man but Jesus offers healing.
Wow....I never saw that coming!
*snort*
I once didn't vote for the governor of Illinois because both candidates were abhorrent to me. When Dobson said he would be unable to support any candidate for president - I actually thought - "good for him - standing on principle" -- I should have known better.
Dobson and principles? Nope - not going to happen.
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Ok, so he reversed himself. So who is he gonna vote for Hillary or Barack?
"Why is it when they say 'Family Values', I hear 'Closet Case'?" - Ron Reagan Jr.
Anything Dobson and his "Fuck Us on the Family" group believes in is almost certainly 180 degrees from reality. Supporting anything his group doesn't always works in a pinch.
Clinton and Obama are so anti-family that they have their own families, but only as a cover to hide their virulent anti-family positions.
Democrats are sneaky like that.
Our host writes: "Wait, you’re expecting him to stand by his words? *snort* Is it me, or is everything surrounding McCain just one giant set of flip flops?"
You know, the great irony here is that not only does McPain flip flop, he never missed an opportunity during the debates to chide Mitt Romney for the same sort of equivocation. At one point, for example, he put on his best smirk and, without looking Romney in the eyes, told the audience, "I agree on one thing, Governor, you're the agent of CHANGE in this debate." Then he let out his characteristic snicker, which robbed all the humor from the remark, such that the audience barely chuckled, much less laughed. Just three examples of Monster Flipflops by McPain: (1) religious fundamentalists (he was against "agents of intolerance" before he saw it as politically expedient to suck up to them), (2) giving huge tax breaks to the rich (he was against trickle-down before he was for it), and (3) waterboarding (he was in favor of the Geneva Conventions before he was against them). There are dozens of others. What a hypocrite! BUSH III, BUSH III, BUSH III.
Dr. Dobson you are so wrong. Issues like universal health care and cleaning up our air and water ARE pro-family policies. Throw in quality affordable day care, longer paternity and maternity leaves, safe food products, safe toys, living wages for parents and early childhood education and you have a very pro-family policy. Ask who supports these pro-family policies. Then vote accordingly.
Virtuousladyj - Rep @ 67:
It could be that, or it could be because "Dr." James Dobson is an enormous asshole.
Paul B. @ 24:
There is so much truth here...nothing more needs to be said.
I would love to see what Darkblack could do with an image of Dobson and tinky winky.
Virtuousladyj - Rep @ 67:
Translation: unless you are a member of a group that the mullah Dobson wants to eradicate, you should go along with Dobson.
No, sorry, but I don't hate or want to eradicate a large section of America, whether they agree with me or believe what I believe or not. And other than the religious-right extremists like Dobson who would be happier in a place like Afghanistan under the Taliban, many Christians are the same way. I am not a Christian, but my view towards others is more Christian than yours.
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