Oy! ... this is excruciating!
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 ...
Those making above 250K are certainly above average.
I would be more interested in, “How much do those making 250K already pay, and what is the upper limit in percentage that ANYONE can morally be asked to pay?”
However, RW is asking better than I expected. He doesn’t do follow-up, but I think Obama is hanging himself anyways...
This from the guy playing golf while Georgia burned...
this is CALIFORNIA???
Yes, in the various regions???
I can’t get over how he stutters. The media constantly make fun of Bush, have they even noticed this!!!
He’s awful!
Yes, I believe that Warren said “home run”... I also believe that Warren meant to say “run home!” after that awful performance!! Too many uhs, and the comments about abortion being “above my pay grade” and “don’t know too much about the housing market” will hurt Obama for a long time.
yup!
BO- “This is hard, I’ve been on the stump for a long time.”
And attention deficit adds to the difficulty.
Ok, I’m coming in a little late here but I heard the Chosen One say that he was against late-term abortions!!!!
What the HE** else has he outright LIED about that the godd Rev. just let slip by!!!!
AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH....I feel like Charlie Brown.
“me thinks he was told what was going to be asked”
I thought the same thing.
Edit. Have you seen his thesis btw? I thought not. His clients list or records? Thought not.
As for Warren himself, any Pastor that doesn't preach the evils of murdering the weakest among us by the millions from the pulpit is no Pastor that I'm interested in.
This would be a good time for the two witnesses to show up... even though it’s far from Jerusalem.
I just played it back. He did say “home run.”
Uh break is over.. now back to the Uh uh uh ..visiting uh cemetary uh uh Pearl Harbor uh uh uh ... solemn..uh uh ..
Oh No
Globalism
media will not mention his pay grade or housing market comments in their post analysis of this.
This would be a good time for the two witnesses to show up
It would.
Oy! ... this is excruciating!
Then he is not the only dim bulb in that campaign because his answers suck.
I didn’t hear him say that the death of 3000 Americans was worth defending!!!
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