Efforts to Sell Obama to Pro-Life Americans Collide with His Support for Sweeping Pro-Abortion Policy Changes (Barack Obama‪)‬

WASHINGTON (September 30, 2008)The Barack Obama "messaging machine" is now in full overdrive mode, seeking to mislead religiously committed Americans into thinking that Obama has a middle-of-the-road position on abortion policy and will promote "abortion reduction." In late September, the Obama campaign kicked off a "Faith, Family & Values Tour." A team of Obama surrogatesincluding Pepperdine University law school professor Douglas Kmiec, evangelical author Donald Miller, and former congressman Tim Roemer of Indianawill travel from state to state, seeking the votes of religiously committed Americans. According to a report on Beliefnet.com, the surrogates will be "doing grass-roots evangelizing for Obama in community centers (neutral sitesno houses of worship) and homes. The Tour will continue for weeks in most of the key battleground states."