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Rick WarrenTranscript
- Right Wing Nut House
- Lefty Campaign Follies
- I am always trying to be helpful to our friends on the other side, giving them the benefit of my considerable experience and wisdom in matters both personal and political. For instance (and this is a freebee); never eat lobster at a restaurant where the beasts are in a tank swimming around and you get to pick your own dinner. My reasoning is elementary; thinking about the poor creature you’ve just selected for the culinary guillotine being lowered into a boiling pot of water, screaming silent screams of agony while its meat slowly cooks in its own fat will take away your appetite pronto.
- I am always trying to be helpful to our friends on the other side, giving them the benefit of my considerable experience and wisdom in matters both personal and political. For instance (and this is a freebee); never eat lobster at a restaurant where the beasts are in a tank swimming around and you get to pick your own dinner. My reasoning is elementary; thinking about the poor creature you’ve just selected for the culinary guillotine being lowered into a boiling pot of water, screaming silent screams of agony while its meat slowly cooks in its own fat will take away your appetite pronto.
- Hyscience
- Tonight At The Saddleback Forum: What Obama Claimed Tonight Was His 'Most Gut-wrenching Moment' - Never Happened! (Updated)
- Obama's most gut-wrenching decision? Apparently as a state-legislator in a far left-wing district in Illinois, he opposed the war in Iraq! In fact, his "decision" had zero influence on anything other than his political livelihood in a ward of Chicago, where being anti-war was easy for a liberal politician in the Democratic Party.
- Obama's most gut-wrenching decision? Apparently as a state-legislator in a far left-wing district in Illinois, he opposed the war in Iraq! In fact, his "decision" had zero influence on anything other than his political livelihood in a ward of Chicago, where being anti-war was easy for a liberal politician in the Democratic Party.
- Hot Air
- Nuance: Obama almost says Clarence Thomas didn’t have enough experience to serve
- Amerpundit
- POW vouches for McCain Cross Story
- “I recall John telling that story when we first got together in 1971, when were talking about every conceivable thing that had ever happened to us when we were in prison” Swindle told me a few minutes ago ...
- “I recall John telling that story when we first got together in 1971, when were talking about every conceivable thing that had ever happened to us when we were in prison” Swindle told me a few minutes ago ...
- Get Religion
- Obama: "Folks are lying"
- But there’s an abortion-related Barack Obama story I’ve been watching for months, waiting to review how the mainstream media will handle it. Unbelievably, it’s been only lightly and sporadically covered — and only at the surface. I have a feeling that’s about to change owing to some recent major movement from the National Right to Life Committee. You can get hints that it’s out there, heck it was out there in a different way in January, but there’s little direct or current mainstream coverage . . . yet.
The issue is whether or not Obama voted against a bill in the Illinois State Legislature that would protect babies born after failed abortion attempts. I would point you to mainstream media coverage but there isn’t much. To get up to speed on the underlying issues, at least from the perspective of the pro-life community, your best bet is to read David Freddoso’s article on National Review Online (where my better half writes). National Review Online is a conservative Web site and Freddoso is an author of a book critical of Obama, but the first part of the piece is just reportage rather than analysis.
- But there’s an abortion-related Barack Obama story I’ve been watching for months, waiting to review how the mainstream media will handle it. Unbelievably, it’s been only lightly and sporadically covered — and only at the surface. I have a feeling that’s about to change owing to some recent major movement from the National Right to Life Committee. You can get hints that it’s out there, heck it was out there in a different way in January, but there’s little direct or current mainstream coverage . . . yet.
- Three Sources
- McCain Cheated
- Comments: I have no idea why Obama was not completely on his game.
- One word: Teleprompter. (Or lack thereof.)
- Comments: I have no idea why Obama was not completely on his game.
- WizBang
- The Real Qeustion after Saddleback
- But that's not the real question here. The question should not be "why did John McCain do so well?" After all, McCain has shown, time and again, that he's very, very good in this kind of format.
No, the real question is ... ...
- But that's not the real question here. The question should not be "why did John McCain do so well?" After all, McCain has shown, time and again, that he's very, very good in this kind of format.
- The Corner on National Review Online
- McCain, Obama, and the "Cone of Silence"
- A few points. First of all, it appears that some commentators believe there was an actual "Get Smart"-style "cone of silence" at Saddleback. There wasn't. Pastor Rick Warren was making a little joke when he used that phrase. But he was assuring the crowd that McCain was not hearing any of the questioning of Barack Obama.
Next, McCain, like Obama, knew the first two questions that would be asked of him — the "three wisest people" question and the "greatest moral failure" questions. Both men knew exactly what was coming at the start of the appearance. This morning I talked to A. Larry Ross, who is the media representative for the Saddleback Church, and he told me that Warren "gave both candidates the first two questions because he didn't want them to be nervous…so they would be at ease."
- A few points. First of all, it appears that some commentators believe there was an actual "Get Smart"-style "cone of silence" at Saddleback. There wasn't. Pastor Rick Warren was making a little joke when he used that phrase. But he was assuring the crowd that McCain was not hearing any of the questioning of Barack Obama.