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...
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Barney Franks sister.
Hey stranger!
Thats Barney Franks sister.
To cover for all Obama’s uh, uh, uhs tonight they are saying he was relaxed, thoughtful, conversational. LOL.
They can’t deny McCain was better but they are trying there best to not say Obama was awful.
Now there's an interesting diagnosis.
Where'd you come up with that term?
Ann Lewis Senior Advisor for Hillary Clinton for President, has served as the Director of Communications for HillPAC and Friends of Hillary 2005-2007 and from 1997 –2000 as Director of Communications and then Counselor to Bill Clinton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Lewis
“CNN approx 9:16 central, after interview of Obama,
suggesting McCain is painting Obama as the Anti-Christ, “
Huh???????
Nor with any candidate....the president is the president of the entire country after all.
It stinks, but it is the nature of the beat. Even Reagan messed up a bit.
McCain outclassed BO on every question. He is twice the man.
CNN said Antichrist?!?!
“Anyone who votes third party, does a write in or sits at home only helps Obama.”
But that’s what many will do if McCain pick a liberal, pro-abortion running mate (including me).
Tell McCain to pick a pro-life, conservative, and here’s the info.:
John McCain 703-418-2008 and e-mail jpblack@mccain08hq.com and http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact/
Senator McCain needs to be FReeped, and here’s why:
“RUSH: Because they think that they own us, in the most crucial of earlier decisions, McCain is misjudging us. He feels he can pick whoever he wants, pro-choice Democrat running mate, and that everybody’s just going to march with him. But he figures wrong. This is going to be a close election, and it’s not going to take a lot of people sitting on their hands to lose an important state or two.”
Read the rest here:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081508/content/01125108.guest.html
And WHERE is Michelle ma belle?
Really? I thing with a good wig Barnery would be a better looking woman than his sister.
She ranks right up there with Helen Thomas.
Yep.
I have several relatives in the Military fighting in Iraq & Afgh. They are voting for McCain.
They are voting their conscience.
I’ve been wondering that too?? Where is she??
The Obamassiah just shot himself in the foot.
Yes, same crowd.
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