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An Open Letter to Rick Warren
redstate.com 8/13/2008 —
Dear Pastor Warren,
I am writing to you to express concern about something that may
get lost when you host the candidate forum with John McCain and
Barack Obama at Saddleback Valley Community Church which is likely
to receive national ...
Rick Warren on Today's Forum, Mormonism and His Fave Bible Verse
blogs.abcnews.com 8/16/2008 — Popular and influential pastor Rick Warren told me that in today's forum at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forrest, Calif., with Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., "we’re going to look at four different things. Were going to...
CBN’s Brody Gets Hot Interview With Obama at Saddleback
thepage.time.com 8/17/2008 —
The two talk about his handshake with McCain, the toughest question during the forum and how he thinks the McCain camp is purposely using imagery to scare people about him being the anti-Christ.
He also gets heated when Brody brings up the Born ...
Candidates Saddle up for Saddleback
voices.washingtonpost.com 8/15/2008 — By Krissah Williams Thompson The spotlight on the campaign trail this weekend will turn to Pastor Rick Warren, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical preachers and the only man able to get Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama to show up on the ...
CNN's Analysis: At Saddleback, Obama Was 'Thoughtful'
newsbusters.org 8/17/2008 — Last night the Reverend Rick Warren questioned Barack Obama and John McCain at California's Saddleback Church. Post forum coverage at CNN was hosted by network chief national correspondent John King.
He began by asking CNN senior political analyst ...
Saddleback Spokesman on Code-of-Silence-Gate
blogs.abcnews.com 8/18/2008 — A. Larry Ross, a spokesman for Saddleback Church and Pastor Rick Warren, says that the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has assured the organizers of Saturday night's "Civil Forum" that McCain did not "see or hear any of Senator...
Obama And McCain Appear At Saddleback Church Forum:
huffingtonpost.com 8/17/2008 — Appearing at Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Orange County, CA Saturday night, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says America's greatest moral failure is its insufficient help to the disadvantaged, according to the AP :
...
Pastor Rick Warren’s Forum Unfair to Obama
scrappleface.com 8/17/2008 — (2008-08-17) — The Saddleback Civil Forum Saturday night, hosted by best-selling author Pastor Rick Warren, was “utterly and shamelessly biased” toward Republican presidential nominee John McCain, according to a spokesman for the ...
Saddleback
slacktivist.typepad.com 8/20/2008 — Barry Lynn doesn't think Barack Obama should have agreed to appear at the presidential forum hosted by Rick Warren's Saddleback Church on Saturday. Lynn argues that the evangelical megachurch was GOP home turf and thus the whole thing was a trap and ...
Pastor Warren Contradicts Self on 'Cone of Silence'
fivethirtyeight.com 8/18/2008 — In yesterday's Saddleback Forum , pastor Rick Warren on two occasions referred to John McCain's "cone of silence", implying strongly that he had not been able to hear the questions posed to Barack Obama ahead of time. This was Pastor Warren during ...
How Pernicious Is Rick Warren?
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 8/16/2008 — It's perhaps the most depressing fact of this campaign so far that the first major encounter between McCain and Obama will be presided over by a mega-pastor and in a church. Here's Jeffrey Goldberg's interview with the man who is taking American ...
Pressed by CNN, Warren Says Obama Had a Competitive Edge
newsbusters.org 8/18/2008 — On Sunday night’s Newsroom program, CNN anchor Rick Sanchez, pressed megachurch leader Rick Warren about Obama campaign charges that John McCain was cheating by not being in a "cone of silence" during Obama’s interview. " Last night, I ...
Joe Klein: Soak the Rich to Please Jesus
moonbattery.com 8/20/2008 — The theological revelations continue. Recently, we've learned that Jesus supports Utah Democrat Bennion Spencer in his run for Congress, and would be even more in favor of abortion than Barack Obama, if only that were possible. Now Time magazine's ...
Are Obama and McCain having a debate tonight?
althouse.blogspot.com 8/16/2008 — I'm trying to figure this out: The Rev. Rick Warren, author of the best-seller "The Purpose-Driven Life," will spend an hour interviewing each candidate at his 20,000-member Saddleback mega-church in Southern California. On CNN's "The Situation Room" earlier this week, Warren said he won't play the role of a political pundit or ask "gotcha" questions, but rather tackle four areas of ...
The Rick Warren Forum
blogs.tnr.com 8/17/2008 — I just saw CBN's David Brody proclaim McCain the winner of tonight's joint appearance at Saddleback Church, saying (essentially) that McCain hit it out of the park. I didn't think McCain did as well as Brody did--a lot of his ...
The candidates define ‘rich’
thecarpetbaggerreport.com 8/17/2008 — At last night’s forum at Saddleback Church, the Rev. Rick Warren asked a nearly identical set of questions to Barack Obama and John McCain, but one of the more memorable inquiries was just two words: “Define rich.”
Obama started ...
McCain’s ‘cone of silence’
thecarpetbaggerreport.com 8/18/2008 — Before the candidate forum at the Saddleback Church got underway on Saturday night, the Rev. Rick Warren explained that both candidates would get the exact same questions. Barack Obama would go first, and John McCain had been “safely placed ...
Who Knew What When?
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com 8/18/2008 — It turns out that the Rev. Rick Warren gave both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain an advance look at some of the questions he posed to them on Saturday night at the Saddleback Church forum.
McCain's Revival —
The Next Right
McCain’s Revival?
John McCain’s campaign experienced a revival at Saddleback Church this past Saturday -- a reawakening of enthusiasm that could fuel him to victory in November.
The Rick Warren Obama/McCain interview surprised me like a sucker punch. I was floored. McCain came across as the candidate I wanted ...
The Rick Warren Political and Scientific Experiment —
PoliGazette
Tonight, the Saddleback Church had the opportunity to have their leader Rick Warren interview both Barack Obama and John McCain using the same exact questions. Barack Obama had an hour, and then John McCain had an hour after Obama, where he was hiding inside in a silent-room where he couldn’t hear how Barack Obama performed.
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$100 Million Man McCain: Rich Not Defined by Income —
Crooks and Liars
Eight years ago, then Governor George W. Bush revealingly joked about his backers at the 2000 Al Smith Dinner. “This is an impressive crowd - the haves and the have-mores,” Bush said, adding, “Some people call you the elites; I call you my base.” With his own quip Saturday night that “ $5 million ” is his definition of rich,” John McCain made no ...
Rick Warren: Obama Probably Can't Win Evangelicals —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
In an interview with God-o-Meter on the day after his Saddleback Civil Forum with John McCain and Barack Obama, Rev. Rick Warren sounded pretty dubious about Barack Obama's and the Democrats' chances of making inroads among evangelicals. The full interview will run Monday on Beliefnet. Here's a preview:
Before last night, McCain had been widely criticized by Christian activists for keeping ...
Warren doubts Dems' evangelical efforts —
The Swamp
by James Oliphant
Barack Obama didn't exactly receive an FTD "Thank You for Being You" bouquet from the Rev. Rick Warren.
In an interview with the website BeliefNet, Warren, who sponsored the forum at the Saddleback church in California Saturday, cast doubt on the ability of Democrats to reach evangelicals and so-called "values voters" and he said attempts at outreach by Obama to that ...
6 things I noticed when I rewatched the Saddleback Civil Forum. —
Althouse
1. It was called the Saddleback Civil Forum, and Rick Warren stressed the importance of the word civil , which for him, connotes politeness and respect. I'm sure I blinded myself to the word last night because, being a lawprof, when I see civil , I think: not criminal . 2. When Warren asked Obama to name the 3 individuals he'd consult most often, Obama began by excluding Warren , Warren then ...
Thoughts on the Saddleback Forum —
Stones Cry Out
I hadn’t really intended to watch last night’s presidential candidate forum hosted by Saddleback Church and thier celebrity pastor, Rick Warren. Part of the reason was that I was uncomfortable with the idea of a church being the host of a purely political event.
I’m still not sure how involved churches need to be involved in politics although I agree with those who believe ...
How McCain Won Saddleback —
The Corner on National Review Online
Greetings from Lake Forest, California, site of last night's McCain-Obama appearance at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. I have a story up on the forum and the pretty widespread feeling that John McCain won the evening. In the unusual setting, with unusual questions -- unlike Beltway journalists, Warren had no interest in asking about what is on the front page of today's Washington Post -- the ...
At Saddleback, Obama Is Asked Who His Wise Men Are —
Political Punch
We're here at Saddleback Church, the main sanctuary where 2,200 are watching Pastor Rick Warren's "Civil Forum." More than 4,200 others are watching from satellite locations elsewhere on the Saddleback campus, not to mention those checking it out on basic...
Politics at Saddleback —
The Corner on National Review Online
Greetings from Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, where in a and hour and a half, we'll begin the 'Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency,' to be moderated by Pastor Rick Warren. A question: Should the first joint general-election appearance of the candidates be held in a church?
About That Warren Affair Tonight With McCain And Obama —
Hyscience
In a comment posted at Free Republic , Ken Shepherd, Managing Editor of NewsBusters, writes that we shouldn't really expect serious questions related to faith and Christianity during Rick Warren's presidential forum at Saddleback Church tonight.
Apparently, Rick Warren, what another commenter at FR calls a progressive preacher with a purpose driven agenda, has used "Faith in Public Life" ...
SADDLEBACK BOUND —
The Page by Mark Halperin
McCain and Obama head to Pastor Rick Warren’s sprawling Saddleback Church Saturday for a candidate forum — their first appearance together since becoming their party’s presumptive nominees.
The two hour-long sessions, moderated by Warren, begin at 8 pm ET.
For more on the format, details and more — including who won the coin toss to go first — here.
...
Faith and Character in the Presidential Election —
Patterico's Pontifications
[Guest post by DRJ]
Faith and religion will be the hot topic this weekend as Southern California Pastor Rick Warren interviews Obama and McCain in back-to-back interviews Saturday:
“Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County and best-selling author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” will interview the presidential hopefuls for an hour each, back to back ...
Obama, McCain Will Appear at Faith Forum —
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain "make back-to-back
appearances Saturday at an evangelical conference aimed at getting the
presidential hopefuls' views on issues dealing with leadership and
compassion," USA Today reports. Rick Warren, the
pastor of the 22,000-member Saddleback Church, "will interview each candidate separately
for about an hour on the presidency and Constitution, the ...
The Heartland of Southern California —
Open Left - Front Page
McCain and Obama are attending a forum this Saturday , hosted by Rick Warren, the author of The Purpose Driven Life . It will focus on "heartland questions":
The Rev. Rick Warren said Thursday that his upcoming forum with Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will be aimed at asking them tough "heartland questions."
The author of the best-selling book "The Purpose-Driven Life" is to interview ...
Church and state —
Political Animal
CHURCH AND STATE.... About a week ago, at the candidate forum at Saddleback Church, the Rev. Rick Warren kicked off the event with a fairly straightforward message: "We believe in the separation of church and state, but we do not...
Defining the Rich —
The American Scene
During the Saddleback Forum, Rich Warren asked candidates McCain and Obama to define what it means to be rich. Obama gave a very sober, responsible, straightforward answer:
I haven’t sold 25 million books, but I’ve been selling some books lately. (Laughter.) So I write a pretty big check to Uncle Sam. Nobody likes it. What I can say is is that under the approach I’m ...
Saddleback bump for McCain —
QandO
A s it turns out, the Saddleback Forum may turn out to be one of the most significant events in this election season: He clashed with their leaders in his 2000 campaign. He struggled to gain their votes during the 2008 primaries. And he still doesn’t spend much time talking about the issues they consider most important. But after Saturday night’s televised forum at the Saddleback Church in ...
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