Rick Warren To Give Inaugural Invocation — Righteous Choice?

CitizenSugar — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:43 -0800

Prominent evangelical Pastor Rick Warren will deliver the traditional blessing at Barack Obama's Inauguration. While selecting Rev. Jeremiah Wright would have created many more waves of outrage, the choice of Rev. Rick Warren has caused some ripples of disappointment among Obama's more liberal supporters. Rev. Warren, who hosted a non-debate between Obama and McCain at his Saddleback Church, publicly supported California's successful gay marriage ban Proposition 8. But he's also tried to widen the social conservative agenda to include causes like global poverty, human rights, and HIV/AIDS. Source

Yes. Warren represents many Americans and brings a sense of inclusiveness to the event.

No. Obama could have picked someone who shared his campaigned-on values.

Other. I'll tell you in the comments.

McCain and Obama Share the Stage For the First Time Tonight!

CitizenSugar — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:00:39 -0700

Who thought the presidential campaign would steal the oldest beauty pageant trick in the book? Obama and McCain are set to make their first joint appearance tonight at mega-pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church in Southern California — but they won't be on stage at the same time. Remember the isolation booths that beauty queen finalists would hop into so that they wouldn't hear the final question before it was their turn to answer? The Q&A tonight will be just like that, give or take a tiara.

Warren is going to ask what he calls tough "heartland" questions to both, and in a move I actually really like for comparison's sake, both candidates will get the exact same batch. The one-hour slots will focus on questions that Warren says don't allow for a lot of wiggle room, "but I do want to know how they handle a crisis, because a lot of the things in the presidency often deal with things you don't know are going to happen, that we don't know will happen in the next four years . . . There are a lot of different things you can deal with in the life of a leader that will tell us more about the candidate than some of the typical questions."

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Rick Warren To Give Inaugural Invocation — Righteous Choice?

McCain and Obama Share the Stage For the First Time Tonight!