Usually, when He says it, He means it.

"Many, many, many Christians were praying and we really need to address that issue first: where was God? Because there were these ’40 Days of Prayer,’ there were several of those that took place, where people fasted and prayed for forty days asking the Lord for His intervention on Election Day. We did a program last week where my wife Shirley came in with her vice-chairman John Bornschein and told how three hundred Gideon prayer warriors came to Washington, went to every single office of the House of Representatives and the Senate and prayed for the occupant, prayed for our representatives, went to the White House, went in a vigil to the Supreme Court, which is now at great risk, and went to the Pentagon. People like that were praying all over this country and the Lord said no." - Focus On The Family founder James Dobson, admitting to Concerned Women that the National Day Of Prayer Task Force prayed for God to defeat Barack Obama.

Story for another day: why the Dobson family is made up of a man, a woman, and a vice chairman.