Somehow this comes to my mind! 
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 ...
He sure did outclass him.....acted a lot younger than Obama too....with more passion and sincerity.
“And WHERE is Michelle ma belle? “
Still on vacation.
Where is she? Anger management seminar?
Yes there better not be any more talk of a pro-abortion VPP after tonight or McCain will lose the conservatives he just kinds won...
Now if he has a conversion about the illegal aliens overnight....
BIG SIGH
Somehow this comes to my mind!
Actually he is not a malignant narcissist...he is a narcissist wannabe...he thinks that’s what Presidents are supposed to be in the US and he is acting it out. His view of America is very flawed. I’d say he is very insecure at core.
God bless you too :)
Make a living using Ebay.
As in a person selling stuff on Ebay from home.
Just want to go on record as saying MCCAIN CLEANED NOBAMA’S CLOCK!!!!!!
I believe this was a truly defining moment in the race.
Rick Warren was great, McCain greater - Obama was ... there. Dems should be vewy, vewy worried.
What the he*l is that old bag, Clinton loving Ann Lewis doing there? How could they?
Please see my post #1026.
I think her name is Ann Lewis. Isn’t it?
When does the convention strat ???
Next week ???
Oh the Hugh Manatee for Obama...
Take another vacation Barry...
550 from the press? What the?
There were no Christians there then?
Kidding... I think.
Magnanimous of FOX to offer her a little airtime. If she had to justify her continued presence with viewership ratings, she'd flunk as badly as Al Franken did on Air America.
McCain has surgically removed Mr.Obamas’ nut and they now reside in a mayonaisse jar on John desk. Will the Democrats now seek a set of ovaries?
Exactly. A person who has fought for his country and has two sons in the military.
I want a President with real world experience not a looser like Keyes who is wound so tight he is ready to snap.
anyone watching Cspan?? What is going on?
there is some guy all railing about abortion?He is pro life.
this is Cspan?
Now its Huckabee.
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