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 ...
Obama sure missed his teleprompter
M and O
Big kissies huggies
Oh cant you just feel the love tonight ??????????
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????
McCain comes up and they decide to break into someone TALKING about OBAMA!
brb—need to get my gun
Like your popcorn suggestion,
brb.
Glad I didn’t miss McCain.
down eee, down..............
No ties...another sad legacy of klintoon
Several FReepers who find no problem with Obama being president have held back posting and commenting about him.
Am sure you will see them bashing McCain when he has his hr.
If I thought I could trust him, I would, too.
But if McCain wins, and he governs like he swears he will, I'll be happy to help myself to the biggest heaping helping of crow ever seen.
No one has and no one ever will.......
Maybe it is not that he looks like a Mortian, but Mortia on the Adams family
naw. no way. ya think????? cough
Oh, for the classy taste of RR!
oh BS!!!
time for McCain-— and they decide to cut off the show and TALK about OBAMA
save this crud for the end
Get my pie in the sky by and by. What’s up Clem... long time.
The Audacity of Nope
Obama’s oil policy.
By Deroy Murdock
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDYzZmRhODdhNGVmZGUyNWNhZDM3NDEwNWMxODg1MjY=&w=MA==
But to pinpoint America’s offshore oil deposits, Congressional Democrats, starting with Senator Barack Obama, love disco-era maps. Despite his conditional, latter-day support for limited offshore drilling, Obama is the sole sponsor of legislation that would block geological research to locate offshore oil.
The resulting document states: “Resource estimates are highly dependent on the current knowledge base, which has not been updated in 20 to 40 years for areas under congressional moratorium. . . . ” Translation: “We have no idea what’s really out there.”
Obama’s “Oil SENSE Act” would repeal the 2005 Energy Policy Act’s authorization of these inventories. Introduced in January 2007, S.115 would leave decision makers with Carter Administration maps drawn with pre-PC technology.
They brought in the moonie contingent.
LOL. Or a tire pressure gauge....
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