{"id":809,"date":"2008-09-03T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/09\/no-meeting-scheduled-with-focu.html"},"modified":"2008-09-03T14:56:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:56:20","slug":"no-meeting-scheduled-with-focu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/09\/no-meeting-scheduled-with-focu.html","title":{"rendered":"No Meeting Scheduled with Focus for McCain&#8217;s Colorado Springs Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" height=\"116\" alt=\"fotf.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/211\/import\/imgs\/fotf.jpg\" width=\"100\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/03\/us\/politics\/03conservatives.html?scp=1&amp;sq=mccain%20kirkpatrick&amp;st=cse\">The New York Times<\/a> reported this morning that the McCain campaign recently requested a meeting with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In July, when James C. Dobson, the influential founder of Focus on the Family, said on his radio broadcast that he, too, might drop his staunch opposition to a McCain presidency, campaign operatives quickly called to express their thanks and ask Dr. Dobson to meet alone with the candidate, a spokesman for Dr. Dobson said.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>This weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/09\/mccainpalin-to-rally-in-colora.html\">John McCain\/Sarah Palin rally<\/a> in Colorado Springs would seem the ideal time for such a meeting, no? But Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger says the McCain campaign has not been in touch about setting up any meetings between McCain&#8211;or his aides&#8211;and Dobson or Focus staff while in town on Saturday. &#8220;We&#8217;d be open to it if it was something the campaign would want to do talk about, just like we would for any candidate, but this sounds like a fly in fly out thing and I don&#8217;t know if anything will happen, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Schneeberger adds that Dobson is out of town on book leave at the moment and won&#8217;t be around this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reported this morning that the McCain campaign recently requested a meeting with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. &#8216;In July, when James C. 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