{"id":632,"date":"2008-05-21T07:46:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/05\/mccain-rebuffs-dobson.html"},"modified":"2008-05-21T07:46:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T07:46:23","slug":"mccain-rebuffs-dobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/05\/mccain-rebuffs-dobson.html","title":{"rendered":"McCain Rebuffs Dobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dobson.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/dobson.jpg\" width=\"105\" \/>That&#8217;s according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=26557\">Bob Novak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An invitation for Sen. John McCain to meet with evangelical leader James Dobson at his Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., so far has been rebuffed by the McCain campaign. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>God-o-Meter doesn&#8217;t know whether to be more surprised by word of Dobson&#8217;s invitation to McCain&#8211;the Focus on the Family founder has griped that the senator &#8220;is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are&#8221;&#8211;or by McCain&#8217;s demurral, given his post-2000 detente policy toward the Christian Right.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s according to Bob Novak: An invitation for Sen. John McCain to meet with evangelical leader James Dobson at his Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., so far has been rebuffed by the McCain campaign. 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