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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 ...
Where’s the issues questions ???
Abortion, national security, the economy, illegal immigration, etc etc etc
Not me, I am going to hear every last Uh uh uh uh that the Obamamessiah utters. It is spellbinding.
RW starts a question that sounds like it’s on flip-flopping but the question goes something like this: “We know that people flip-flop, but that just shows that you have reevaluated your position because the facts have changed...”
This fluffy “interview” sounds more like letting Obama ramble on and on. If I’m an undecided evangelical this hour is informing me on absolutely nothing.
I’ll take 20, please.
Umm, let me think, ummmm, replay at 11....
I think my dog needs a bath, yep, that's the ticket...
:)
MOgirl
Not me, I am going to hear every last Uh uh uh uh that the Obamamessiah utters. It is spellbinding.
Me too, 80 more days to listen to The One and then he is history.
Let’s not forget the same fluffy questions will be asked of McCain. I like fluff, and fluffy.
Obama wants to protect the weakest? How about tens of thousands of slaughtered Kurds Rick?
Fuddy, what ever happened to the Lincoln - Douglas debate.
The San Diego Republican Party sent up repo buses and others by cars to the RW show to let some know there are more than democrats out there.
Yes
The messiah has no natural cadence in his words without the teleprompter. His “ahh ahh, eh ehehe, a,a,a,” is a sure sign of past heavy drug usage.
I’ve noticed this “stacotto” type of speech especially in cocaine addicts... their mind whirls ahead of their speech pattern.
Too Funny! I’m LOLing at your comment.
Luckly, you won’t be spell-bound in the way that the liberal watching this will.
RW..Let me plug my newsletter.
Er, um, uh, war on poverty, er um opposition to Iraq, er, um.
We’ve been painting most of the day. Yes, I’ve had a couple of beers. :) So I’m wondering if it’s just me or is Obama incapable of putting a coherent sentence together?
Boooooorrrrriiiinnnngggg.....
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!
world view questions- Christianity question, what does that mean to you.
Thank you!!! LOL
I also wonder if mclame will get the same standing O and hearty applause as messiaobama did, let alone the smiling encouragement of the purpose-driven one?
As to the questions, I heard that mclame won't arrive until halfway thru the program. That will open him up to charges that he had a chance to hear obambi's answers.
No way this will be a fair hearing.
what I think it really means is Uhhh uhhhh embrace words..uh uh ( rev. wrights words) uh uh acting uh uh uh acting justly uh uh uh humbly.
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