Before the election, James Dobson created and circulated an imaginary “letter from the future”: “Letter From 2012 in Obama’s America”
The ability of the letter to sway the election is gone, of course. We have a little space from the election now, and can take a breath.
But the letter is still a useful document for staking out some territory about some likely outcomes of the Obama adminstration. For the most part, because these outcomes depend largely on packing the Supreme Court with leftists, and involve known Democrat plans in Congress, there may not be much we can do to avoid these outcomes by political activity, except maybe a successful filibuster of far-left judges. But maybe forewarned is forearmed, and just maybe there is something we can do by the 2010 congressional elections to slow it all down.
You can read the Dobson letter by clicking the link above: it will download a PDF to your computer, which you can save, print or just view. I have not reproduced it here because it has many formatting features that would be lost, including many footnotes with sources for quotes and policy positions that Obama and others have taken. It is a fairly clear distillation of the warnings given by many in the center-Right about the Obama presidency.
Jim Wallis, of Sojourners, and frequent spokesman for the Christian Left, replies here.
The following will only make sense if you read Dobson’s letter and Wallis’ response first.
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