Is Focus on the Family Warming to Obama?

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...with Muser. I think the phrase black and white was used because there is no other phrase like it. In literal terms, they are opposite colors that cannot mix in the slightest with out changing. Throw a little red in with the blue paint, you'll still have blue. A different shade, but blue. Black and white are absolutes that exist the world over. Everyone knows the colors are opposite, even those who do not have an idea of a "black" person being different from a "white" person. I'm getting tired of people trying to put race into an already difficult issue when it shouldn't be there. I think it is admirable that the two sides are getting closer and trying to stir this pot will not help.

dizzy of OR 6:41AM June 04, 2009

except for abortion, Obama is "focusing" on the family moreso than is the ministry by that famous trademarked name.
Housing, jobs, education, credit card reign in, energy, health care, emphasis on personal responsibility, modeling marriage and parenthood, you name it.
"Focus" has to either "warm up" a little bit to these things or admit that it wishes to settle for only the Palinites in its audience and admit all its "family" stuff is really single-issue.
As for the interview above, we're to believe that Obama is "not so black and white" as a metaphor? Actually, Obama is black AND white. What an odd thing for someone to say off the cuff. I'd say Freudian slip, but I don't much believe in Freud.

Muser of NM 3:03PM June 02, 2009