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AKRON, OH - In an interview conducted Monday and posted online today, Sarah Palin sat down with “Focus on the Family’s,” Dr. James Dobson.

Dobson, one of the nation’s foremost evangelical leaders, told Palin that he was “asking for God’s intervention” and praying “for a miracle in regard to the election this year.”

The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said that she gains strength from the supporters she meets on rope lines at campaign events, “I can feel the power of prayer, and that strength that is provided through our prayer warriors across this nation. And I so appreciate it.”

The interview focused almost entirely on religion and Palin told Dobson that her “Christian faith” is her “foundation” and that in regard to the outcome of the election it is “all in God’s hands.”

Dobson has been very critical of John McCain even saying publicly that he would not vote for the GOP nominee. However, he has expressed his support for McCain’s choice of Palin.

Dobson asked Palin about her private conversations with McCain and if he would implement the Republican platform, which is more conservative than 2004’s platform. She said that from the bottom of her heart she was very confident that he would implement the platform.

Dobson praised Palin on her opposition to abortion rights and the Alaska Governor responded describing her long-standing anti-abortion stance, ‘I’ve always had near and dear to my heart, the mission of protecting the sanctity of life, and being pro-life, a hardcore pro-lifer.”

Dobson reminded Palin that he sent her a letter after her infant son, Trig was born saying the baby’s birth was “a powerful testimony” to the “sanctity of human life.” Trig was born 6 months ago with Down Syndrome.

She told Dobson that Trig’s birth was “an opportunity for me to really be walking the walk, and not just talking the talk” on her opposition to abortion.

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Barack Obama says Charlie Black was wrong to say that a terrorist attack would help John McCain in November; that he spoke to Hillary Clinton today and is trying to reach out to her husband; and that Christian leader James Dobson distorted his words on religion in a wide ranging media availability in the back of his press plane.

Obama wandered back to speak to reporters in the middle of a flight from Las Vegas to Los Angeles for an informal bull session with reporters — a tactic encouraged by his campaign as a way to counter an aloof image he’s cultivated with his traveling press corps. But after asking about basketball, gambling, and the trinkets from voters he carries with him, reporters pressed him on the record on whether he’s spoken with the ex-president who so often belittled him on the campaign trail.

“I’m sure we will,” said Obama. “He’s in Europe right now which is the only reason we haven’t spoken. But were looking forward to setting up a long conversation.” Obama praised the former president as a great strategist who’s “as smart as they come.” But Clinton’s commitment to campaigning for Obama has come into question, so much so that a spokesman for the ex-president had to release a statement reaffirming his support for the Illinois Senator.

Obama also accused Focus on the Family leader James Dobson of twisting a speech on religion he gave in 2006. On his radio program today, Dobson took aim at Obama’s argument that certain Biblical passages shouldn’t be taken as guides for public policy — saying “I think he’s deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology… He is dragging biblical understanding through the gutter.”

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