{"id":428,"date":"2008-10-30T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/elizabeth-dole-attacks-opponen.html"},"modified":"2008-10-30T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T08:19:21","slug":"elizabeth-dole-attacks-opponen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2008\/10\/elizabeth-dole-attacks-opponen.html","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Dole Attacks Opponent as &#8220;Godless&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  Apparently the voice at the end saying &#8220;there is no God&#8221; is someone attempting to impersonate Dole&#8217;s opponent, Kay Hagen.<embed src=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1155201977\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1886174584&#038;playerId=1155201977&#038;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&#038;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&#038;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&#038;domain=embed&#038;autoStart=false&#038;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed>I have to say, as a political matter, if you&#8217;re running for Senate in North Carolina, you might want to think twice about attending a Godless Americans PAC fundraiser. (Who knew there were such things?)  Seems to me that if candidates are allowed to ask &#8220;what did you promise in return&#8221; for contributions from the insurance industry or labor unions or anything else, that it&#8217;s fair game to ask what views you took that so pleased the Godless Americans.  But by then having the Hagan impersonator say &#8220;there is no God,&#8221; Dole took a basically legitimate ad and drove miles over the line.UPDATE:  Dang, I fell for it! Turns out the money wasn&#8217;t from the PAC but from a fundraiser organized by a women who had helped create that PAC.  Also turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christianitytoday.com\/ctpolitics\/2008\/10\/opponent_demand.html\">Hagan is a Sunday school teacher and an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro.<\/a>   By the way, what is &#8220;godless money&#8221;?  Bills with the In God We Trust crossed out? And where can I get myself some of the more God-full greenbacks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Apparently the voice at the end saying &#8220;there is no God&#8221; is someone attempting to impersonate Dole&#8217;s opponent, Kay Hagen.I have to say, as a political matter, if you&#8217;re running for Senate in North Carolina, you might want to think twice about attending a Godless Americans PAC fundraiser. 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