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AMERICAblog: CNN asks if Obama is the anti-Christ

  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Keanu Reeves is the Anti-Christ. How quickly the infidels forget.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Funny you should mention Keanu; I just picked up his film with Gene Hackman, "the Replacements" for 5 bucks at Wal-mart. Great 'No stress" and funny movie.
  • bob915 · 1 year ago
    Campbell Brown has summarily ruined her career in the move to CNN---the land of ANderson Cooper and Dana Milbank
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    Gawd.

    They're doing such a lame version of Fox, it's embarrassing.
  • MNUSA · 1 year ago
    CNN went from Paula Zahn to Campbell Brown, wife of Bushie Dan Senor. So why wouldn't she gleefully disparage Obama?
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    She just drips venom when discussing Obama.
  • gumdrops · 1 year ago
    Irenaeus speculated that it was “very probable” the Antichrist might be called Lateinos, which is Greek for “Latin Man”.
  • gumdrops · 1 year ago
    John Chrysostom warned against speculations and old wive's tales about the Antichrist, saying, “Let us not therefore enquire into these things”. He preached that by knowing Paul's description of the Antichrist in 2 Thessalonians Christians would avoid deception.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    As long as CNN seriously entertains Tony Perkins from Focus on the Family as a serious commentator on social policy then CNN can't be trusted to make unbiased opinions regarding something as serious to many Christians as to who might be the anti-Christ. I would say if John McCain was found to have "666" stamped on his head, CNN would find a way to report it as, "Did Obama have Satan stamp '666' on John McCain's head to confuse voters as to the REAL anti-Christ?"
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    . . . or simply, "No, you're reading it the wrong way, it's 999!"
  • TampaZeke · 1 year ago
    Tony Perkins is actually with the Family Research Council not Focus on the Anus.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Obama, "I believe Jesus Christ died for my sins and I am redeemed through Him."

    Well, well, well... try to spin THAT ONE ReTHUGlicans!
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Ya know... I really wish this kind of forum could have been held for George Bush. Instead of stating something coherent like, "Jesus died for my sins and I'm redeemed by Him." Dubya would have said, "I believe Jesus is my friend because he made me a Bush!" or something really ignorant and stupid.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Wait a minute. I can't keep track. First, Obama was the Celebrittney Sexy Jeebus on the Mount of Uppity Presumtuousness, but now he's just Satan Himself in savior's clothing.

    Religion is for dolts.

    Anti-Christ/Infidel '08!
  • gumdrops · 1 year ago
    And so is mainstream media....
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    I am watching the forum on MSNBC.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Me to. I stopped watching CNN. I figure its Fox light. However, I do love Caffey. I would be interested in his take.
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    This whole 'forum' at Saddleback Church is wrong. What happened to separation of Church and State?
  • gumdrops · 1 year ago
    Yeah it would have been better off at Brokeback Mountain.
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    Not with these homophobes. "Sermon on the Mount" would take on an entirely new meaning. "or is it called dirty-talk during sex?!" ;-)
  • martha · 1 year ago
    Exactly. I don't recognize our country since Bush took office.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    It is probably wrong in terms of separation of Church and State, but given way the questions have gone and Obama has handled the questions well, I can't imagine that McCain is trying to cut his own throat with his fingernails. How will McCain be able to handle these rather difficult questions. Almost wonder if these questions were actually intended to put McCain at a massive disadvantage. The trouble is, in future elections, I can see how this forum will be badly abused to the disadvantage of which ever ever candidate the pastor disliked. Does already seem that the questions are far far too tough for McCain and put him at a massive disadvantage. Yes, it is unfair and we must see beyond the current contest to future contests when it will be our candidate who will be put at a disadvantage. Look at how crooked the last debates have been with the debate moderators stacking the deck against Gore and Kerry.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Supposedly, McCain is in a "cone of silence." bwah hahahaaa! I'd like to see that one!
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    You are right. It is very obvious that McCain was given the questions and given at least a month to prepare his answers. He knows the questions and answers before hand. The questions are rigged. Yeah, Obama handled them awesomely.

    He's answering the question about who is rich right now. He didn't answer the question.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    If this had been a puppet show, people would have laughed at McCain's wooden answers. If Rove was the puppet master pulling the strings, he did a very poor job as it was obvious that McCain was reciting the answers from memory. Even Bush is capable of being more believable.
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    Jokingly, of course. He has taken over the discussion and made it his own show, and taking the questions in different directions so he can get in his "talking points" and blather.
  • scytherius · 1 year ago
    Amerika is an asylum. It it loaded with the insane and they run everything. It's time for all of us to just kiss our asses goodbye.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    How is this not a religious test?
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    Exactly. Both of the candidates should have refused this invitation.
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    But McCain never ever would, and where would that leave Obama? We progressives alone are not going to put him in the WH. Someone made a good point that Obama is not going to win over these Evangelicals with his appearance, but he may win over a lot of independents who are watching.
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    What qualifies Rick Warren to personally interview the Presidential candidates?
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    The forum is rather sickening, Obama said "marriage is between a man and a woman" unfortunately, and hes really kissing the ass of the right wing.

    I'm souring on Obama the more and more I hear him speak. McCain is not an option, but Obama is quickly just becoming the lesser of two evils.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Well, I'm not going to expect Obama to go out on a limb and flat out state he is going to support full marriage for gays and lesbians. The guy has to get elected, and walk a very fine line. I'm satisfied he said he believes in Civil Unions, and I'm NOT for separate but unequal. I'm just thinking we have to be REAL careful or we could scare people into voting McCain. I've decided when it comes to marriage, we just aren't going to get it all at once. Its going to come piece meal until we reach some sort of critical mass. I'm willing to let Obama be a politician and answer the controversy with a safe answer.
  • Gary SF · 1 year ago
    The fact that this 'civil forum' even exists is a symbol of everything wrong with this country. I know I am going to offend many, but there is NO place for religion or religious beliefs in an election or in ANY part of government. I will be holding my nose and voting for Obama, in spite of his need to wear his Christianity on his sleeve. Unlike these folks, I am a decent person without having to adhere to the nonsense written in the Bible, Quran, or other foundational books. And if God is so damn powerful, couldn't he have put together an understandable PowerPoint presentation instead of inspiring a book that no two people interpret the same? We are toast.
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    Well, Gary Hussein SF, you don't offend me. I am an Episcopalian, and I too think that religion has no role in the election process of a secular government. I give Obama a pass on going through these religious hoops because he cannot get elected otherwise. He may be an agnostic or atheist deep down like his mother, but I'd rather see him take this road and become president over John McCain. In other words, I'd rather see him become president than be "right" and lose. It's a sorry situation, but we just cannot lose this time. It's do or die.
  • Gary SF · 1 year ago
    I agree that we cannot lose this time.
  • Bubbles · 1 year ago
    Your position is written right into the constitution. How could that offend anyone.

    I'll second, and go further. What's inside my head concerning religion is nobody's business. The priest or whatever you call Warren, might as well reach into the candidates pants and tell them to turn their head and cough. It's private. It's none of his business.

    Religion is floating point proposition in ALL people. You get fired you think there is no stinking god, you get laid by an uber-model, you think that perhaps there is a God.
  • TampaZeke · 1 year ago
    Mr. Hussein, I am a Christian and a member of the United Church of Christ (Yeah, Rev. Wright and Obama's denomination) and I'm not in the least bit offended by your very sensible comment. In fact I agree with it 100%. MOST UCC people would. I think most of us in the UCC feel more than a little bit uncomfortable with the direction Obama is taking with his over emphasis on his religion.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    by the way, Glenn Beck asked Pastor Hagee if Obama was the antichrist on CNN Headline News a few months ago :

    http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/04/beck-is-oba...

    and yes, I sent them that story. lol
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Obama is doing really good.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    "We are the most blessed nation in the world." - Warren

    What does that even mean?
  • Gary SF · 1 year ago
    We sneeze a lot.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Hey, it was a rhetorical question, but LOL. Gary wins the Subaru.
  • ScootFL · 1 year ago
    It means he's a close-minded moron who believes that Jesus founded America 2,000 years ago and then left on a rocketship where he waits for the believers to join him on the moon (which explains why George Bush wants to budget billions of dollars for NASA to go back there again). Then again, it could just mean he's a close-minded moron. One of those two.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Answer: A preacher that sell $26 million in books have it really good?
  • gumdrops · 1 year ago
    Owners of Manhunt do better...what happen to that forum?
  • CitizenX · 1 year ago
    In a geographical and historical sense I have always thought of that as being true. Basically prime real estate, not "discovered" until the late in the 15th century, not settled significantly until the 19th century with an immense fertile plains area able to feed a huge population, rich in resources, mostly with a mild climate.

    The rest of the world in many ways have significant challenges (deserts, jungle, long term resource usage, etc.) or have been settled for 100's or thousands of years.

    North America is "blessed". I have alway thought that.
  • CitizenX · 1 year ago
    So really the born agains should be wholeheartedly behind Obama if they think he is the anti-christ. It will bring about the Rapture and they are yearning for it to come.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Yes, if they don't vote for the anti-Christ then they will prevent the rapture from coming. Of course, don't expect them realize their faulty logic on that one...
  • CitizenX · 1 year ago
    No doubt. Be careful what they wish for.
  • BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago
    Ever tried to find a phone number for CNN. It's damned near impossible on the GOOGLE.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    I hope McCain took the precaution of sharpening his fingernails. He's going to need them razor sharp as Obama has already slaughtered McCain. Even with Rove coaching him through a wire, even Rove cannot come up with answers as good as Obama has already used. Afterward, of course, the Republicans and the MSM are going to be yelling and screaming how McCain massacred Obama which won't explain why McCain used his fingernails to open his own juggular vein committing suicide.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    My guess is that the Right Wing spin will be that obviously Pastor Warren gave the questions ahead of time to his satanic buddy Obama.
  • martha · 1 year ago
    No, I think it is obvious they gave the questions to McCain. When he rattled off the 3 people who were inspirational to him yoiu knew.
  • martha · 1 year ago
    God, he is going on and on and on about his Vietnam torture. What does this have to do with being a good president in 2009. This is sick.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    You are right as I've said up-thread. Pretty obvious this was a setup to try to trip up Obama. There is no way that McCain has the ability to make answers off the top of his head. I still think Obama has given very excellent answers especially considering he was stuck with answering off the cuff.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Where are the black people in the audience? Was there some sort of racial and religious test to get into the audience of this "forum?"
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Wow, LOOK HOW SHORT AND OLD GRAMPS IS compared to Barack Obama!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    McCain is ALREADY a Debbie Downer
    Geeze, he is just not a plesant person
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Meg Whitman, of eBay, is on the McCain Campaign Staff. MY HERO!
  • JohnNation · 1 year ago
    Labeling someone the "Anti-Christ" is, in Christian belief, the worst of all possible denunciations.
    Leave it to CNN, the Fox wannabes to bandy the term about in reference to Obama.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    Yeah, but they also called Gore the Anti-Christ before this and then Kerry. And they also said that Gore was the most liberal member of Congress and t hen used the same charge against Kerry and now Obama. Regarding the last, I just wish that Obama were a true liberal. Anyone who is stupid enough to believe Obama is a liberal probably has to be reminded to breathe regularly and needs to have their drool wiped up off their faces.
  • Chris From Maine · 1 year ago
    well McCain mentioned his first marriage (but left out the details, like he left his wife cause she got ugly after she waited for him to come back from Vietnam)..

    and he said Reagan was a "great great President". Game over.

    btw.. how scary is it that America might elect a senile old man to be President? That should keep us all up at night.
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    What scares me is that I might end it all for myself if he is elected. I can't take this country anymore.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Is McCain going to ask questions by Reverend Warren, or is he just going to be allowed to ramble on with his stump speech?
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Mcshame isn't answering questions....he is spouting party lines; repeating his campaign speeches. And now, believe it or not, he is talking about being a POW and "it took a lot of prayer!"
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    War. And war. Also, war, war and war. Also, war! Did I mention war? War. - John McCain
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    McCain is WAYYYY too rehearsed. Practiced his little stories too much? He's bat shit crazy.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    I just saw a new McCain Commerica....

    One of the 2 second vids clip they used at the end of the commerical was him from about 8 years ago....He was standing in one of those townhall forums......but you can tell it was from 8 years ago.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Obama: Gave REAL answer.

    McCain: Gave little speeches and Christian vignettes he has practiced over and over.

    He is also angry.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Jeebus H Christ, they're letting mcshame tell another one of his POW stories! Got to keep this in front of the voters ya know. Keep it up mcshame. You sure have a great memory when it comes to remembering EVERYTHING about your POW days. Too bad you can't remember how you voted last month!

    Prolife....that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

    Marriage...between one man and one woman. But mcshame wants to skip this part and talk about Supereme Court justices. What an idiot. Does he get to pick his own questions?
  • Bubbles · 1 year ago
    Might 'anti-christ' be code for 'anti-white'?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Isn't Reverent Warren going to ask McCain if he believes marriage is between a "one man and one woman" then why did he marry Cindy when he was still legally married to Carol? Notice how he immediately tried to get OFF that topic and Reverend Warren LET HIM.

    "An examination of court documents tells a different story. McCain did not sue his wife for divorce until Feb. 19, 1980, and he wrote in his court petition that he and his wife had "cohabited" until Jan. 7 of that year -- or for the first nine months of his relationship with Hensley.

    Although McCain suggested in his autobiography that months passed between his divorce and remarriage, the divorce was granted April 2, 1980, and he wed Hensley in a private ceremony five weeks later. McCain obtained an Arizona marriage license on March 6, 1980, while still legally married to his first wife."

    Wow, must be nice to just FLATLY state shit he is not willing to do himself!

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-divo...
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    You gotta understand, Cowboy; at this point in time? nobody cares........
  • Bubbles · 1 year ago
    Like hell. If the questions are asked, every rightwingnut blogger goes balistic.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    nobody cares. The people who are paying attention have already decided who they're going to vote for. Now, we're working on the 10% in the middle who won't decide until a week or three before the election....
  • gcampb20 · 1 year ago
    I cant wait for the debates.....mccain will be blown out of the water.
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    Unfortunately, we have seen this all before. Gore blew Bush out of the water in debates and Bush won. Kerry blew Bush out of the water in debates and guess what, Bush won. I'm just sayin' Do not put all your eggs in one basket. Yes, Obama will blow the doors off McBush but we've seen this all before.
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Damn. I actually had hope that this would be a fair fight. The pastor and CNN logo on my screen have belied that foolish notion. I'm changing channels now. Later.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    McCAin : War War War!

    Yep Debbie Downer.

    Geeze, he is just one big sour puss.
  • RenoAnne · 1 year ago
    This man has onset Alzheimer's. He needs to be thrown in a home.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    This is hilarious. McCain is going to air his pathetic ads on TV during the Dem convention coverage. I see a serious meltdown coming down the pike..

    http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/aug/15/mcc...
  • scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago
    He is unhinged
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH! Did mcshame get the questions ahead of time. He can't possibly answer these questions without hesitation. He has rehearsed and rehearsed and some of his answers don't even match the questions. AND IF HE SAYS 'MY FRIENDS' ONE MORE TIME......AAARRRRGGGGHHHH! I can't stand it! Wait......he will answer this question with something about his POW days.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Wow, Reverend Warren was REAL GOOD at trying to redirect Obama but BOY has he let McShame just go ON AND ON with his campaign schlock.

    Warren didn't handle the marriage question AT ALL with McCain. Let McCain just ramble on...

    Oh MY GOD! Did you just HEAR who McCain said he would get rid of on Supreme Court?

    Legislating on the bench? You've got to be kidding me!!! What do you call giving Executive Power where it is NOT warranted?
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    McCain is "pround of President Bush"

    THAT SHOULD be in the next Obamam commerical.
  • bob915 · 1 year ago
    My friends, he's going to the gates of Hell............................my thing with this constant rhetoric is..............................it rings like the "I'll go to the ends of the earth to find the killer" from OJ.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    He is again telling lies about his trip to New Orleans. About his church. About every damn thing he talks about. When mcshame gets done talking you don't even remember what the hell the question was.
  • bob915 · 1 year ago
    Warren's glassy eyed------folks, any hopes of even Q & A are toast
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    I think he just lost the Teachers' vote!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    He is too old.
    Obama is going to cream him during the debates
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Honey... Gramps... we ALL don't have the same choices you and your Senator buddies have. You don't understand it? Obama does. He should know we all don't make the kind of money Cindy makes and get the freebie benefits of being a Senator.

    In response to question about school "choices."
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    " I don't want to take any money from the rich"

    BINGO. next Obama Commerical
  • penndaly · 1 year ago
    This whole thing turned out to be a bad joke... This guy didn't ask the same questions or with anywhere near the same amount of depth....

    While I credit Obama for reaching out to this crowd, it is clear that Warren has an agenda and has crafted his questioning to fit.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Yes, he did say that:
    "I don't want to take any money from the rich"
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Did mcshame just say he doesn't want to take any money from the rich. Cindy will be happy to hear that. Who in hell does he think he is fooling? Come on, Warren. Don't let mcshame run this show. I am so damned confused. I honestly don't know what is going on. Here he goes on again with his stump speeches, about taxes. Shut him down.....NOW!
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Funny, how McSame gets to answer his questions with ZERO FEEDBACK, especially during that marriage question. Boy, did he EVER skim over that one. Marriage between one mand and one woman with no mention of being married to TWO women at one time!

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-divo...

    Reverend Warren just sat there and let him get away with it.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Yep, Warren lost aLL CONTROL of this about 10 minutes ago.
  • Miket298 · 1 year ago
    God he's back on the "My friends" annoying crap again
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    STFU mcshame!!! Man, he is on a roll now. Has the audience laughing and cheering and he is talking, talking, talking. This is a one-man show. So much for a fair and public forum. Thought Warren would be more than this.

    There is no way in hell that mcshame can answer these questions without even hesitating one little bit. He is too smooth. Not like him. He has definitely been fed the questions. IMHO
  • Jim Olson · 1 year ago
    You really thought that Warren wasn't going to give McCain a pass? Please.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    THIS is why we should NEVER allow this kind of "forum." This was in NO WAY fair... Otherwise, how did McCain skid through his questions so fast? Answer: Warren let McCain CONTROL the show while he made Obama explain himself more.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    McCain here's only CERTAIN words in the question....and then he tunes out the rest of the question which is being spoken to him by Warren.

    You can tell McCain is then recalling his talking points to those "Certain words" he heaard.
  • ezpz · 1 year ago
    Yeah riiiiight, McNasty was in a sound proof room. Uh-Huh.

    He's answering the questions before Warren even spits them out.
    I think Warren at one point got nervous that the cover was getting blown.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Did you catch when Warren told Mcshame 'you answer the questions so fast!"
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    He's trying to warn McCain to slow down make it seem like he is thinking about the question, hesitating and looking for answers. FAr, far too obvious, that McCain is simply reciting prepared answers and not even doing a good job of acting that this isn't just a recitation of prepared anwsers. Did you notice that Obama handled the questions well, but he hesitatated, had to think about how to answer the questions and his answers were punctuated with "Ahs". McCain never hesitated once, but even answered the questions before Warren finished stating them.
  • bob915 · 1 year ago
    Warren might as well leave the stage-----it's a Mcprepared pep rally---am I just over the top paraniod or is this blatantly set up to shine an incredibly old coin?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    McCain was able to just answer the questions with ZERO NUANCE and then move onto what McCain really wanted to talk about: Christian vignettes from his POW days to ingratiate himself to the audience and get them to sympathize.

    OUTRAGEOUS that McCain was allowed to slide on the marriage question. For someone who is SO ADAMANT Marriage is between "One man and One woman," he certainly hasn't lived it like most Republicans.

    I'm amazed he can have such fortitude and self righteousness when flatly answering such controversial nuanced questions and isn't asked to explain himself when his personal life collides with his ideological stands. Did Warren say he would get into his personal life? So far, the only thing I've seen regarding McCain's personal life is just little vignettes about POW stories.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    The only two things congress is present for; vote themselves a raise and go on vacation! How long has it been since mcshame has been in his senate seat and voted for anything???

    Here he goes again trying to change Warren's agenda.....wants to speak about everything but what is asked. This is sickening!!!
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    The good Rev Warren has some explaining to do, either he lied when he said it was not a political forum with no political speeches or he could not control his own forum.

    Rick Warren is now just another hack, he set up a McCain friendly town hall meeting and advertised it as a fair civil forum with the two candidates being asked the same questions.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Wow, McCain is getting "extra credit" questions?

    Well, the Georgia question backfired because he SCREWED UP. Besides, McGoo needs to keep his mouth shut about Georgia right now. We still have ONE President at a time.

    McCain stuttered and screwed up. He keeps making gaffes while speaking about foreign entanglements. That whole, "Russia is trying to protect their borders" was a HUGE GAFFE!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    McCain is always so negative
  • ezpz · 1 year ago
    I love how McMyFrenj criticizes Congress for taking vacations and voting for pay raises. Ummmm, wasn't he in Congress for like 100 years, taking vacations and voting to give himself pay raises?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Russia IS trying to protect their territory. Oh, McGramps screwed up again... he meant Georgia protecting their territory. Wait, I'm getting confused. Gramps is confusing me!
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    What the heck is going on with this blowheart. He sounds like he is campaigning. Warren asked him questions that he didn't ask Obama. He keeps talking talking talking and on and on. Warren keeps letting him go on.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Warren is trying to take back control of the meeting. Too late 'my friend.'

    He lets mcshame ramble on and on and on. Got to get out all of his talking points before time is up. Why did Obama have to stick to the subject? This is so fake it is disgusting. mcshame had to know the questions and Warren had to let mcshame run it his way. I have never heard mcshame sound so rehearsed.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    Did Warren ask Obama about Russia?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Warren asks questions and then lets McCain have a FREE FOR ALL. He was very careful to "control" Obama but has just let McCain ramble on about any ol' subject he wants to get into. He DIDN'T get into McCain's personal life unless it had to do with his POW experience. We were ALL WAITING for answers about his marriage since McCain is so judgmental and an ideologue when it comes to marriage being "one man and one woman." It isn't a secret anymore that McCain REALLY screwed up and DID NOT adhere to what he states he believes in. Warren DID NOT hold him accountable. Rick Warren is a patsy.
  • Coming Undone · 1 year ago
    Rick Warren is a patsy, he gave McCain prime time on a Saturday night to give a stump speech. It was also obvious that McCain knew the questions ahead of time, McCain could never just answer questions off the top of his head.
  • penndaly · 1 year ago
    Thankfully, this free political spot was on a Saturday Night...
  • penndaly · 1 year ago
    Nice softball for McCain who now gets to talk about the kid he adopted.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    And George Bush called yur little adopted girl a black girl you fathered
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    It will be interesting, or maybe it will be sickening, to know what the pundits make of this "forum". Anyone with half a brain who watched will perceive the truth of what went on.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Wanna bet? They will be GUSHING about how "honest" and "forthright" McCain was in dealing with all of his personal life. The media is DESPERATE to turn the page on McCain's DIVORCE QUESTIONS:

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-divo...

    "Until McCain filed for divorce, the Reagans and their inner circle assumed he was happily married, and they were stunned to learn otherwise, according to several close aides.

    "Everybody was upset with him," recalled Nancy Reynolds, a top aide to the former president who introduced him to McCain.

    By contrast, some of McCain's friends, including the Senate aide who was at the reception where McCain first met Hensley, believed he was separated at that time."
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    Anyone with half a brain who watched will perceive the truth of what went on.

    Sigh! Not too many of those around.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    I'll always put my country first?

    What does that mean?
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    I don't think mcmcain goes to church every sunday
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    Maybe Christmas and Easter ... most years ... some years ... when someone tips him off that reporters are checking up on him.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Sorry folks, I am in tears now. This has been such a one sided, one man show, it is despicable. I will never feel the same about Rick Warren again. There is no way, absolutely no way, that mcshame could have been so well prepared as to answer the questions practically before Warren had them spit out. We have all seen mcshame speak in public before and he is usually out of his element. How can he be so well prepared tonight? Not possible.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Well, if he was prepared, he screwed up the most important question of the night and that was the whole Georgia / Russia war McCain brought up himself. McCain screwed it up... and showed he isn't to be trusted to talk about foreign policy.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    He might have screwed to us but don't 4get he is preaching to his choir.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    You knew when Obama came in it was a strike already before he opened his mouth. MSNBC were talking about it before it started saying that it was a good show for him to make an impression. But its hard when you are speaking to a bunch of republicans.
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    Don't worry. Nobody is even watching the thing. Besides, the Olympics are still on.
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    McCain has turned this forum into his comedy act. Some of his answers are so sophomoric that one wonders if this puffed up old man pontificating on how he'll chase Osama into Hell and back to capture him and bring him to justice still stirs up the crowd. Haven't these people learned anything in eight years? Bush said the same thing and then chose to ignore Osama and start the real war he wanted all along, with Saddam. McBush not only will skip the seriousness of some of the questions but he will then pander about his being a POW and milk it for all the sympathy he can get from the crowd.
    The audience has been eating this stuff up right from the beginning. Sorry, I can not take anymore. I ended up arguing with the TV to the point that I had to shut the propaganda machine off. ;-(
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    He comes off so phony. He made sure he got his talking points in especially about Georgia. He couldn't wait to get it in.
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    I also, agree with a few others here that he may have received the questions previous to the "side-show" he made. Answering the questions before the question is even finished raised some flags with me and I know we all have heard McBush stumble repeatedly when asked questions that aren't scripted. His responses this evening were too rehearsed.
  • BorninUSA · 1 year ago
    Obama should go to Warren and say he was sorry he didn't understand the meaning of public forum. He didn't know he was supposed to give his campaign speech. Must not have gotten that memo.

    Puke Buchanan is on now saying Obama seemed like a college sophomore and mcshame was hands down winner tonight. They all think this was one of mcshame's best appearances. For gawd's sake people, it is so obvious why mcshame was on tonight. He knew the questions. And if anyone believes mcshame will keep any promises he made tonight they are more naive than I was in thinking this would be a fair public forum.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Boy I sure agree with you. Thats what I was trying to say earlier in my posts. You expressed it very well. Thanks. Obama as usual does the right thing.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    "Be interesting to see how the McCain campaign and RNC try to twist Obama's words -- and what Rev. Rick will say about that."

    It will be interesting to see if the Democrats grow some nads and ask WHY THE HELL McCain escaped without having to discuss his BROKEN MARRIAGE while his second wife sat smugly out in the audience like she was pure as the driven snow!
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    He did mention his first marriage. But I was hoping to see grandpa squirm.
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    MSNBC gave it to McCain. Well I going back to the Olympics. I getting tired of the spin.
  • bob915 · 1 year ago
    Russert is trying to make a deal ith G-d----Please just give me 5 minutes back on Earth so I can Kick their asses, then I promise I'll come back and be content Forever>>>>>>>>>>>>
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    Its a commerical break. I don't know about that. Russert just had a love fest with McCain, just like Matthews does. You know the reporters were part of his base.
  • Bose · 1 year ago
    Can we now accept that McCain has instructed his health care providers, Keep the face (eyelids, cheeks, jowls) flat, trim the waddle just a little to leave me real?
  • gumdrops · 1 year ago
    Is that cotton in his cheeks to keep them perky or is he chewing Red Man tobacco?
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    No way. Cosmetic surgery is for the wealthy and the elite. McCain grows young in debating issues on the campaign trail.
  • ezpz · 1 year ago
    This was no better than that ABC sham.

    Anyone notice how they panned to Cindy and Lindsey Graham (at least once that I saw), but not to Michelle or anyone from the Obama camp?

    Just like ABC showed Clinton supporters, but no Obama supporters, this one tonight also tried to create the false impression that McShame has a bunch of supporters, while O doesn't.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Wow, is ANYONE EVER going to ask McCain to EXPLAIN why he had TWO WIVES at one time?
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    So, McCain how many lives are you going to commit totthis unconditional defeat of evil?
  • Bose · 1 year ago
    Aw, c'mon... Tony Perkins? As an analyst? Are you f'n kidding me?
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    If they are going to have radical fundies like Tony Perkins as analysts how about having Muslim Al-Qaida as analysts, as well? Its only fair... If one is going that extreme in one direction then lets have KKKlan, Al-Qaida and other extremists discuss tonight's forum.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    McCain could have gone into his faith more and less about WAR. I thought this forum was supposed to be about one's relationship with God. Obama said he was a Christian. McCain didn't have to even talk about it that much. He just talked about POW stories and foreign policy in which he wants war.
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    That should give us an inexhaustible supply of orphans.
  • johnkerry · 1 year ago
    WOW!!! What can one say!! John Mc Cain TOTALLY blew Obama Carter WAY OUT of the Presidential picture! This was unquestionably Mc Cain's finest hour and he completely devasted Obama's hopes of being President!

    This showed that stuttering curious George Obama just isn't capable of competing with someone of Mc Cain's status! It was like a debate between a first grader and a college graduate. Obama, without a teleprompter, showed his total lack of experience for ANYTHING and showed he couldn't even get through a sentence without doing the "ah's" and "ummm's". Obama's performance was pitiful! Pathetic! He showed his inability to connect thought and to connect with the American public.

    Tonight convinced me to vote for Mc Cain who I honestly wasn't that thrilled with before.

    Folks, this race is OVER! Obama should just throw in the towel and go back to Chicago and wait until 2016!
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    Ya mean when McCain stuttered the Georgia Russia conflict was about ensuring Russia's borders?
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    laugh. out. loud.

    Whew. *wipes eyes*

    Thanks, johnkerry.

    You jokester!

    PS: All of the thousands, tens of thousands, who show up for every Barack speech had me worried.

    PPS: Hey, everyone down here at the trailer park says to say Hi.
  • LunaStick · 1 year ago
    Didn't watch

    Glad I didn't
  • Bobby · 1 year ago
    Why didn't they just have it on Fox News Channel?
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    Funny that McCain had no moral quandary with taking the lives of a civilian enemy.
  • willrhodes · 1 year ago
    I have never seen a more biased show - ever!
  • donotmakemecomedownthere · 1 year ago
    Well, CNN just confirmed who the Anti-christ is. Thanks CNN! Now I don't even have to think anymore!
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    Call me clairvoyant if you like, but the reactions of the audience tonight are what led me to leave Amerika forty years ago.
  • jayjay1977 · 1 year ago
    I knew this was gonna be set up for McCain. You know damn well he was listening backstage. It's disgusting!
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    Maybe so, but McCain's dumbassed answers were tailored for a dumbassed audience. Obama's answers were beyond their heads.
  • unrepentant_expat · 1 year ago
    'Remember the Maine' McCain's motto...
    Act before you consider the consequences.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
    The image of Dana Bash and John King copulating won't leave my mind...
  • where_oh_where · 1 year ago
    My Friend's where oh where was John McCain's flag pin tonight?
  • Gorgonzola · 1 year ago
    Its remarable that Rick Warren and John McCain talked for 30 minutes about his stay at the Hanoi Hilton without once mentioning that McCain made propaganda films for the VC. How on earth is this not a matter that voters should be informed about? Others went to jail for treason for doing less than John did.
  • cowboyneok · 1 year ago
    I'm still angry Rick Warren said this would be about their personal lives, and there was ZERO MENTION of McCain's troubling multiple marriages and the FACT he was married to TWO WOMEN at once.

    Why is John McCain's multiple marriages OFF LIMITS when McCain is so self righteous about marriage being between "One man and One woman?"
  • lark83 · 1 year ago
    Well smart democrats don't bring that up because they know how to spell TORTURE.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    Dear Dana Bash,
    Why don't you just get a room with McCain?
  • SouthernYankee · 1 year ago
    WOW PHELPS WON 8TH GOLD MEDAL. AM PROUD OF HIM.
  • DavidinChelseaMA · 1 year ago
    Explain to me again why this friggin' pastor gets to have a forum with the presidential candidates and have it televised.

    The mainstream media really, really sucks very badly.
  • JoyceH · 1 year ago
    McCain is in his anecdotage.
  • Joneses · 1 year ago
    Obama was more down to earth and truthful. McCain was staged.
  • downindixie · 1 year ago
    What was the deal with Mccrud asking if the pastor was going to go back to the supreme court judges.I missed anything about the judges before McCrud mentioned it.I wonder if
    cCrud knew the questions before hand or got to listen to Obama's session.
  • LEO298 · 1 year ago
    I honestly felt like I had been punched in the gut when Obama answered the gay marriage question. I know he doesn't believe gays should be allowed the sanctity of marriage. But his reasoning was totally shocking. He said that instead, he supports civil unions because gays should have hospital visitation rights. WTF?!! Marriage bestows something like 13,937 rights. Yet all Obama could think of was that gays should not be banned from hospitals? Not a single politician, including McCain, opposes that.
  • DavidinChelseaMA · 1 year ago
    I suspect he is merely treading softly for the audience that he feels is watching this stuff.

    Obama has stated on many occasions that he wants gay and straight people to have exactly the same state and federal benefits, i.e. social security survivor benefits, etc, regardless of what the relationship is called.
  • Blueflash · 1 year ago
    Gay people obviously have nowhere else to go and Obama knows it. Still, he could have come up with an argument based on principles that would sound fairly reasonable to voters ambivalent about gay rights. Something along the lines that people shouldn't be taxed to pay for benefits that they themselves are forbidden to access, perhaps. The out and out haters aren't going to vote for him anyway. He's black, after all. Hospital visits. What a cowardly way out. Who can really object to that? Kind of like saying "let's not kick puppies even if they are only dogs".
  • cheetos · 1 year ago
    Wow, after watching this tonight, the prospect of McCain winding up next POTUS just got a whole lot scarier.

    I counted 11 'My friends' tonight....did I miss any?
  • Joneses · 1 year ago
    Obama has scored points, the religous right is starting to see the light.

    Not to many people are trusting the main stream media.

    Sunday talk shows will be filled with crap.
  • vwcat · 1 year ago
    I watched cspan after the forum and listened to the people call in. They were mostly independents but, most of them thought McCain got fed the questions ahead of time and sounded over rehearsed and canned.
    They felt Obama sounded genuine and authentic. Like he was conversing with Warren.
    It's always enlightening to hear the voices of everyday people and then the brain dead bubble people of the beltway who think they know how we think and feel.
    Maybe if the mainstream media was forced to listen to the callins on Cspan a couple time a week or after an event like this they could get a clue.
  • moreleesafer · 1 year ago
    Just got home froma family get together and turned on CNN. John was on making the 5 million dollar comment. I noticed that of course he is being shot from his right side to avoid the horrible scar/puffy neck look. First thing tha tcame to mind was: Did they hire a funeral director to do his make-up? he sure looks very life-like.

    and what is up with all the "My friends" shit? he sounds like a communist. I expect him to slip up and say "comrades" any minute.
  • lynchie · 1 year ago
    This whole event was an a sham. When did a religious pastor gain national prominence and have enough clout to host a religious call out of presidential candidates. There is a separation of church and state and to jump into the faith based horse shit makes my blood boil. If the test for being President is approval of Rich Warren we can forget primaries and the whole electoral process. McCain was all about war and killing which must be fine with the Christian element. I want a President who will start taking care of Americans not Corporations and their interests. I know Obama had little choice and there is no question either McCain had the questions or he listened to the Obama portion but my impression was that once again Dems play by the rules, are extra nice and the GOP do what they want. I still have to come to grips with Obama's sell out of the Gay/Lesbian community. If getting the right to go to the hospital is the issue they as a group are now farther behind in this country. McCain/s comment on jobs and equating to selling your shit on EBay is frightening.
    In the end it was a loss for Obama.
  • SarainKC · 1 year ago
    John, McCain's "touching" story of the guard who loosened his ties for four hours a day and then drew a cross in the dirt on Christmas was suspiciously the same scene from Ben Hur. Find the clip. Not only does this guy plagerize wikipedia, he's taking scenes from movies! LOL (Oh and what was the question that spawned this "memory"? He was acked what his personal, daily relationship to Christ looks like. Not exactly answered the question)