Posted on 08/16/2008 11:59:35 AM PDT by XR7
LAKE FOREST, Calif. — When John McCain and Barack Obama appear on the same stage today, they will vividly demonstrate the reach that has made the Rev. Rick Warren among the most significant evangelists of his generation.
He's a megastar who leads the nation's fourth-largest church and reaches thousands of ministers through the Internet and crusades against poverty and AIDS. That globe-trotting work and his successful book — "The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?" — puts him at the vanguard of a movement that inspires young, socially conscious Christians.
But his willingness to soft-pedal political issues once central to U.S. evangelicals, such as opposition to abortion, has opened him to criticism that he has strayed from his calling to spread the Gospel.
Today's forum also is a sign of religion's importance in the 2008 presidential campaign, and the emergence of a new style of evangelical leadership on the national stage that is not tied to a single party and has broadened its social agenda beyond that of the religious right.
"This is absolutely a changing of the guard, and it suggests that the new guard of the evangelical movement is able to generate the attention and focus of both parties," said D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and author of "Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite."
Warren personally invited the two candidates — "friends of mine" — via their cellphones. His event at the Saddleback Church will be broadcast live on CNN and Fox News Channel and streamed on the Web. It has among its aims "helping the church regain credibility and encouraging our society to return to civility," he said.
It's likely that fans and critics will be watching closely...
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
CNN also giving McCain high marks. Saying McCain “clear, on target, direct” Obama-”Halting, intellectual,muddled”
Leni
No she is worried about the AMNESTY Bill ans the illegal alien lovin that Mccain still does...
We all are...
For conservatives I think the Supreme Court question alone settles it all, and then McCain's powerful performance was a huge bonus.
Does she have marbles in mouth?
I know she has them for brains
Amen!
BOOM!! GRANDSLAM!!!
..an excellent idea...
Shame is this wonderful performance by McCain is playing opposite the Olympics so the audience is small. Oh, well.
The fact is, this IS McCain. He has always been this good. It’s just that people are finally letting go of the narrative they’ve built around the ‘mavarick’ media persona, you know the one that had McCain stabbing pubbies in the back, while sidling up to democrats.
Let’s remember, his lifetime ACU rating is 83, putting him squarely in the conservative corner.
Obama was giving the intelectual answers ala the “what would you do if someone raped your wife” which was asked during a presidential debate of the past.
Obaba was paralysis of analysis.
He has not tried to give away our sovereignty by ignoring the rule of law...
..he is not seeking to gain La Raza's attention...
..he is consistently, passionately pro-life.
I have been a Republican for over 30 years.
This year I vote Independent.
Krauthammer just said that Obama answered in a post-modern, discursive, professorial style. McCain answered like a fighter pilot - direct, often not even waiting for the question to be completed.
Feel the jealousy, seek the knowledge, choke on the cluelessness...
Via DU link you posted, poster complete with a O ‘08 thingie:
He trots out POW sob stories when he’s cornered.
It shows he’s weak.
(shakes head)
Who’s in for a ticket to Moscow for that poster?
Any good polls out there for this event?
Krautheimer...my favorite..is hailing McCain’s performance.
Bottom line time
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You have choice: Snowobama or McCain, and all you know about each.
Whom do you chose?
Or do you plan on refraining from voting ?
Obama will not do any debates after this, he will say no time, he needs to be on the road campaigning.
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He better be in Nashville in October
I’m going...
Could be... I saw it from the start. It must have been the Dynamic, self assured, knowledgeable, tempered answers J.M. gave versus the limp, unsure, ill informed pablum the messiah spewed...
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