Oh yea, I am dieting this week so I can prepare for binging on kettle corn, cheesy poofs, and beer that week. It is going to be fun. 
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 ...
The DNC is actually blushing tonight
and thats not a natural occurance for that party...
It takens an Obomb by Obama to do something like that...
Obama is saying, “If this basketball was my head, my ears would look small.”
ding..ding....you get it.
BTW I don’t believe all the lies being spread about Rick Warren and many of those doing it call themselves Christian.
watched this at kinfolks gathering in Thompsons Station Tennessee about an hour south of Nashville
i thought McCain hit a home run and Obama just waxed platitudes.
it’s amazing when you get a controlled exchange like this:
unloaded questions
no gotcha
and exact same queries
this just shows how the moderators on regular media so favor the Dems
without that and the black vote the Dems would have died with McGovern
Too bad this little forum wasn’t being held two weeks from now.
“Law professors are refugees from the legal profession.”
As the old saying goes: “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.”
Obama couldn’t make it as a lawyer, so he taught.
On this interview he came across more as a political commentator, than a presidential candidate,
We need a president who is a DECISION MAKER, NOT AN EQUIVOCATOR.
He didn’t even mention terrorists as evil, after Darfur, he focused in on the “evil in the US” or “evil in us” or something like that.
Not me.
“Someone posted a thread from DU early on, they are not happy with their Obamessiah.”
His performance tonight was out-of-touch and his lack of knowledge on key issues is unreal. Hillary will hijack the Dem nomination next week — you watch!
Yeah the Dems may change their minds at the convention
:(
Did not track back all the way but its something to do with his hair color being changed to gray for certain events? If you can get the photos together Malkin would love it!
McCain’s superb performance was a welcome surprise.
The interviews really highlighted the differences between the positions of the candidates, but more importantly, the differences between the candidates themselves: McCain is ready to lead, Obama is not even ready for kindergarten.
no kidding
no mention of clear and present enemies who attack us
only a person of color hotspot..Darfur...the left’s fav tragedy
and our own failures
what a clown he is....
this keeps up and he and McGovern will need a room together
but right now:
Ted Turner, Rick Kaplan, Speilberg, Geffen, Weinstein, Dan Abrhams, Sulzburgers, Gannett, AP, NPR and any other lefty media executive with half a brain is planning how to save barry O
Oh yea, I am dieting this week so I can prepare for binging on kettle corn, cheesy poofs, and beer that week. It is going to be fun.
George Clooney loves Darfur too...
its the lefts hometown right now
I’m going to do a quick vanity just to start the conversation. I’ll ping you on it.
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