Prayer video that sought a Barack Obama drenching gets yanked

[TacticalPeek]

Prayer video that sought a Barack Obama drenching gets yanked

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 speech at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 28.

Stuart Shepard, director of digital media at Focus Action (and a meteorologist to boot), wrote and appeared in the video (see below) that he posted in late July.

In it, he rhetorically asked if it would be wrong to ask people to join him in praying for rain two minutes before Obama takes the stage for his big moment at Invesco Field in Denver. And not just a drizzle -- in friendly, conversational fashion, Shepard said he had in mind "abundant rain, torrential rain, urban-and-small-stream flood-advisory rain."

He added: "Not flood-people-out-of-their-houses rain, just good old swamp-the-intersection rain."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/prayer-video-th.html


Too bad they chickened out. We could have done a sun dance and seen whose God was bigger.

[Epiphany4z]

1. i was thinking

of doing the let them lose there tax exempt statues dance...

[Bicoastal]

2. I never understood what this would accomplish...

...Obama and the crowd would get a little wet. Do you think anyone would care?