Focus On The Family Action: Compares Obama Victory To Nazi Bombing

Focus on the Family compares Obama victory to Nazi bombing.

Think Progress- By Amanda Terkel on Nov 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

Yesterday evening, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action sent out a fundraising e-mail lamenting the victory of Barack Obama. (Dobson had personally endorsed the McCain-Palin ticket.) The author of the e-mail, Focus on the Family Action senior vice president Tom Minnery, told his readers not to despair, saying that the right wing would overcome this situation just as Britons overcame Hitler’s bombing in World War II:

The spirit of Winston Churchill was alive and well on Tuesday night at Focus on the Family Action headquarters.

You may recall that in the most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill called on his countrymen not to despair from danger but to rise to the challenge. […]

As our incredible team of staff members watched the election results pour in on Election Night, an amazing thing happened that Churchill might have recognized. Despite some sobering disappointments, there was no mood of despair and no “bunker mentality.”

(HT: C&L)

Update–Ben Smith points out that, on the Corner, John Derbyshire compares Obama’s Americorps program to Nazi concentration camps and medieval forced labor.