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JEQuidam
posted 8/25/2008
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Erin Great idea putting them side by side - you can really see which questions made each one of them uncomfortable given the audience they're playing to.
Levin: In the Beginning
National Review Online —
D emocratic presidential nominee Barack Obama raised some eyebrows in last month s Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency when in reply to the question At what point is a baby entitled to human rights? he said: Well, I think that whether you re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade. In the explanations that Obama and others have since offered to expand upon this answer, it quickly became clear that Obama was not answering the question as it was asked. His answer, ...
Unforced Errors
Stones Cry Out —
... hosted by the church’s pastor Rick Warren. Each candidate is asked separately the same questions but the results couldn’t have been more strikingly different. Senator McCain’s answers were direct and concise while Senator Obama’s answers tended to be more rambling. But the most telling moment of the entire debate was when Pastor Warren asked Senator Obama at what point a baby gets human rights. The Senator’s response was, in part, “Well, I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific ...
Barack Obama Criticizes Americans As Moral Failures While His Aunt Lives In Low-Rent Housing
Say Anything —
... Remember what Barack Obama had to say about the morality of Americans during the Saddleback forum? ...
‘Tis the season…
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Considering that both Obama and McCain had both stated that they were Christians long before the Saddleback Forum, I don’t think anything was being tested there. In case Ms. Parker missed the questions, they can be found here. No “test” in that list. Again - this goes back to values, which Ms. Parker seems to believe are critical when they belong to “progressives,” (a contradiction in terms, I might add) but not to Christians. I repeat: faith drives public arguments by nature. Both men claim to be men of faith. Therefore, if there ...
