[Presbyterian Reporter]

For the many of us who watched the Rick Warren Forum, Jed Babbin has done a great job of highlighting some of the less touched upon aspects.

This is an easy read and a good one for FReepers to email to their friends.

[shankbear]

The idiots at DU are having fits about a NYTimes piece saying that McCain wasn’t in a “cone of silence.” They whine that Rick Warren lied and that McCain might have had the questions ahead of time. Can you say PARANOIA????

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Here’s all any Conservative needs to know about Barrack Hussein Obama:

Special Interest Group Ratings:

Planned Parenthood - 100% Support
National Right To Life - 0% Support
NARAL - 100% Support
Americans for Tax Reform - 0% Support
ACLU - 83% Support
NEA - 100% Support
NOW Hags - 100% Support
Citizens Against Government Waste - 13% Support
Gun Owners of America - 0% Support
NRA - “F” Rating
Federation for American Immigration Reform - 0% Support
US Border Patrol - 8% Support
Unions - 82% - 100% Support
Population Connection - 100% Support (These are the ‘Zero Growth’ freaks)

http://vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=BS030017

[Barrack Hussein Obama’s record in the Illinois senate:]

- Opposed the Defense of Marriage Act; would work to repeal it in the U.S. Senate; would not vote for any legislation that would restrict the ability of gays and lesbians to marry.
- Opposed the Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times in Illinois. A similar bill passed the U.S. Senate 98-0. The Born Alive bill would have prohibited a baby from being born alive but left to die according to the mother’s wishes. Obama inexplicably opposed this bill not once, twice, or three times, but four times.
- Obama took almost $90,000 in bundled contributions from the Council for a Livable World. The council is a well-known anti-defense organization.
- Obama puts rigid ideology before what’s best for the people of Illinois, and presumably he would do that as President as well. He has on several occasions made public his opposition to the NAFTA trade agreement and his belief that it must be negotiated. All the while thanks to NAFTA, Illinois exports $1.3 billion in agricultural goods to Canada.
- Obama refused to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would have increased penalties for drug traffickers.
- Obama voted against a bill that would have delivered the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders.
- Finally, just in case you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited early release for sexual predators.

Can’t kill the innocent fast enough, can’t free the guilty soon enough!

[CedarDave]

Enjoy it while it lasts. Fox is preparing a one-hour hit job on McCain to air tomorrow night in O’Reilly’s time slot. And I was just warming up to McCain...

(they are supposedly going to air the same for Obama tonight. However, it remains to be seen how they will treat his early history, association with terrorist, the wrong Reverend Wright, etc.)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It was a big McCain win. The “above my pay grade,” remark should become the centerpiece of the next GOP opposition ad.

[TexasNative2000]

My wife and I watched the repeat of the event last night on CNN.

When I mentioned that Obama was stammering around and can't think on his feet, she corrected me; "He's trying too hard to say what he means in a way that won't offend anyone. He's being deceptive."

Case closed.

[Canedawg]

“You can judge how well McCain did by the minimalist coverage in the media.”

That says it all.

[Teacher317]

Answering Warren’s question of when a baby is entitled to human rights, Obama said, “Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.” Obama said he was pro-choice. When pressed to say whether he’d ever voted to limit abortions, Obama slipped and slid around the question, claiming he was in favor of limits on late-term abortions, but cited no example of ever voting for legislation to create such limits. McCain said plainly that he believed that life beings at conception and that, “I will be a pro-life president and this presidency will have pro life policies. That's my commitment, that's my commitment to you.”

Obama lied while trying to straddle the fence to play to the middle, and McCain lied while staking a clear position to placate his base. Not sure there's much of a difference there.

[Walmartian]

The next time for Pete’s sake give the baby the questions ahead of time so we don’t have to go through all of thoses ums and ahs while he tries to form a subject with a predicate.

[1Old Pro]

You can judge how well McCain did by the minimalist coverage in the media

AND, how upset they were at how prepared and knwoledgable McCain sounded compared to the floundring inept Obama. What next? Andrea Mitchell will probably accuse McCain of having a 48 hour session before the questioning to review the questions and prepare his answers.

[devistate one four]

That’s the way all presidential debates should be.
McCain kicked tail!

[longtermmemmory]

I think the presidential debates are now pointless.

No dinosaur media reporter can do ANYTHING to compare.

[RightWingTeen]

According to the DummieFunnies on here, the DU is having a meltdown on their site with ‘the Messiah’s’ poor showing!! :-)

[MarkT]

"In answer to the same question, the best Obama could do was to claim his decision to oppose the war in Iraq was his toughest. How that was a gut-wrenching decision he didn’t explain."

This a duplicitous answer inasmuch as he was not in the Senate when that so-called tough decision was made but, rather, was in the IL state legislature. Another ad for an independent group since McCain probably won't do it.

[Salvation]

Life begins at conception!

[A. Patriot]

I had to stop listening to Obomination. His lips were moving but he wasn’t saying anything.

McCain was GREAT!