Like a limp octopus.
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...
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Like a limp octopus.
Exactly. How could the Dems spin verbatim, unedited, side-by-side answers from the two into a “negative campaigning” charge?
Looks like he’s already regretting it too.
The stories have already been written and submitted before McVain started his portion. They have the meme, they just need to expand it to fill the column space.
I think he has kicked Obe's ass...
After each question, Rick grumbles a begrudging “alright”.
Troubled is he? Barak not so intelligent, at 47, even as a liberal, he should have talked circles around McCain, James Carvelle would have(acknowledging the lack of sense Carvelle offers).
I’m with you, mew.
Did the DaliBama get an immigration question?
I thought before the 250K tonight he mentioned “150,000 and below are middle class.” The volume was low cause he gets on my nerves, but I thought I heard him say that.
Can you believe this floppy eared moron actually taught constitutional law???
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Liberal institutions, especially in Chicago, will take anyone .. if they take Snowbama’s buds, Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers.
And how DARE he compare himself academically to a intellectual giant like Scalia! Obama was an ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR in the law dept, unfit to breathe the same room oxygen as Scalia.
One of the problems that McPain will face in the fall “debates” is that he can “win” them all, only to be declared the “loser” by the Oprah-led cheerleaders in the national media. The American people won’t know what to think.
lolol
I haven’t seen that pic before its funny
He finally won my vote. Bravo!
DH for VP...
McCain sounds real good tonight, like he believes in conservative principles.
Michael Phelps is in the Medley Relay for his 8th Gole Medal just about 11pm tonight.
If America were paying attention, John McCain is proving ewhy he must be elected over the marxist anti-AMeircan pro-abortion, taxation regardless of representation democrap candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.
Go McCain!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McCain did the two things that are mportant..well several
1. Get to the conservative base and get them fired up.
2. Talk to the average American in simple terms they can understand about their problems.
3. Make me feel safer that he can handle the foreign crises.
works fer me!
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