Comments on: The First Debate: Rick Warren with Obama and McCain

By: Brian McLaren endorses Obama during Rick Warren’s Civil Forum | Rich Kirkpatrick's Weblog

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:35:24 +0000

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By: Brenna Lee

Brenna Lee — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:20:25 +0000

thanks for sharing this…I have SO many quetions and idas in my head about the two of them…and politics in general…This was helpful with my research in WHO THE HECK I SHOULD VOTE FOR!!! lol

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:27:29 +0000

Tyler

Check out this video of Obama regarding the ‘Born alive infant act’ controversy that arose out of the Saddleback forum last weekend.

http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/08/20/raw-audio-obama-argues-against-protecting-babies-who-survive-abortions-in-illinois-senate-2002/

His callous disregard for the life of the most innocent is appalling. Don’t let his ducking and weaving, and equivocations fool you. There is no politician out there today more “Pro-Choice”.. or “Pro-Abortion” than Obama. Perhaps that is ok with you. But it should give pause to anyone considering casting a vote his way this fall.

You can find lots of the Saddleback forum event on YouTube, such as this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpAajwwYZE

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:40:48 +0000

Wow that is interesting, thanks Billy. At this point, I’m glad the event happened, but all this back and forth banter makes we not want to vote. I’m flat out sick of it.

By: Billy Chia

Billy Chia — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:27:40 +0000

Tyler,
I heard on the news today that both candidates knew about questions before showing up. Then I found this post about it:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0808/The_politics_of_distraction.html?showall

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:16:07 +0000

From what I hear a lot of you saying…I am mad I didn’t get to watch it. I knew it would be very different from a typical town hall meeting or debate. Sounds like we were able to see a side of both of them not seen often or shown by the media.

By: Yonas

Yonas — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:38:18 +0000

Not that money matters very much, but since I have interest in financial health here’s my take.

Rich: I think it should be determined by the Take Home Pay and net worth.

I know a friend who makes less than $50K/year in San Francisco, able to support himself and his sister (for a couple years), two bedroom apt, and have money left over at the end of month.

His coworkers made upwards of $80-100K/year and most of them lived in $800,000 house with little equity and they were always in the red by hundreds of dollars every month, and living off the credit card.

I don’t want to use the term ‘rich’, but I’d say my friend is financially healthier than the other group.

By: Darin

Darin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:07:57 +0000

To your rich comment. A church in Colorado called Red Rocks Church did a series where they followed a person around for a day. One day it was a homeless man and the next it was a professional basketball player. I’m not sure what the point of the message was because all I watched was the footage from the day but I did think it was very interesting to see the differences between the two experiences.

What one calls rich usually depends on where they are on the food chain. I’m not a big fan of the government redistributing wealth but the church should be voluntarily.

By: Melinda Groth

Melinda Groth — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:01:26 +0000

I, too, did not get to see it. I am so glad that you put a link in for the transcript of the evening. I have Googled every which way, trying to come up with one. All I could find was video. Thanks SO much!

By: ash

ash — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:24:40 +0000

i watched it. yes, i did learn something about the candidates…a few people that i work w/ and i discussed the fact that rick asked questions that are NOT typical in a debate or other political forum. they were questions that were down and dirty, dealing w/ VALUES- thought provoking and forced the candidates to answer honestly. instead of saying…”how do you feel about abortion?” he asked “when does life begin?” that is just ONE question of the many, but the point is- warren asked heart questions and the candidates gave heart answers…gave the audience an insight in to the man, instead of the politician.