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ABC: What Would Jesus Do? Why He'd Vote Obama, Of Course

By Warner Todd Huston | January 05, 2009 | 10:25

The weekend edition of Good Morning America found a fellow that decided to try and live for one year "like Jesus would" but what host Bill Weir found keenly interesting is that this guy voted for Barack Obama because he felt that living like Jesus compelled him to do so. Weir also wondered if the Jesus emulator had to "forgive" his Christian community for any reaction they might have had over the fact that he voted for Barack.

Former pastor Ed Dobson of Grand Rapids, Michigan appeared on the weekend edition of GMA to briefly discuss his year of living like Jesus in a segment called "What Would Jesus Do?" Dobson talked about how hard it was to walk in Christ's path and was shaken by having to forgive and bless the terrorists in Iraq that took the life via a roadside bomb of a soldier friend of his son.

But, Dobson's vote for Barack Obama was an issue that GMA host Bill Weir was very interested in.

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GMA Guest: Obama Best Represented Teachings of Jesus

By Mark Finkelstein | January 04, 2009 | 14:14

Would Good Morning America invite as a guest a liberal who'd never voted for a Democrat but who after a year spent trying to live like Jesus decided to vote for McCain?  I doubt it.  But when an evangelical who'd never voted for a Democrat spent such a year and decided to vote for Obama, GMA devoted a segment to his story

Rev. Ed Dobson is the evangelical in question, and let me begin by saying that he seems a sincere and thoughtful person.  A graduate of Bob Jones University and a member of the Moral Majority's founding board, Dobson was the pastor of Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, MI until retiring in 2005 to battle Lou Gehrig's disease.  He is currently a member of the administration of Cornerstone University. Dobson explained that he was inspired by A. J. Jacobs's book, The Year of Living Biblically, in which the author describes his experiences spending a year trying to obey all biblical rules.

GMA weekend co-anchor Bill Weir interviewed Dobson, and the discussion eventually turned to politics.

View video here.