{"id":369,"date":"2008-02-20T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/02\/does-richard-land-favor-obama.html"},"modified":"2008-02-20T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T15:38:25","slug":"does-richard-land-favor-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/02\/does-richard-land-favor-obama.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Richard Land Favor Obama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"land.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/land.jpg\" width=\"116\" \/>It&#8217;s an indirect compliment, to be sure, but Southern Baptist Convention Public Policy chief Richard Land&#8217;s comments in today&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080220\/NEWS06\/802200463\/1023\/NEWS01\">Tennesseean <\/a><\/em>certainly seem to favor Obama:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the two Democratic hopefuls, Land said that as a conservative Republican he&#8217;d rather see Clinton be nominated &#8220;because she&#8217;d be easier to beat.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But as an American,&#8221; he added, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather see Obama.&#8221;<br \/>\nA McCain versus Obama race would be about America&#8217;s future, Land said, while a Clinton-McCain battle would be about America&#8217;s past.<br \/>\n&#8220;God help us if it&#8217;s Hillary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The pull of the Vietnam War hero running against a draft dodger&#8217;s wife would be irresistible. \u2026 The country doesn&#8217;t need that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Land&#8217;s comments echo those he made last week on Beliefnet&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/02\/mccain-v-clinton-or-mccain-v-o.html?bt=polmashup\">Casting Stones<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an indirect compliment, to be sure, but Southern Baptist Convention Public Policy chief Richard Land&#8217;s comments in today&#8217;s Tennesseean certainly seem to favor Obama: Of the two Democratic hopefuls, Land said that as a conservative Republican he&#8217;d rather see Clinton be nominated &#8220;because she&#8217;d be easier to beat.&#8221; &#8220;But as an American,&#8221; he added,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Does Richard Land Favor Obama? 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