So the pastor lied?

[ProSense]

At the beginning of the forum at California megachurch, Warren told the crowd and TV audience, “I'm going to ask identical questions to each of these candidates, so you can compare apples to apples. Now, Senator Obama is going to go first. We flipped a coin, and we have safely placed Senator McCain in a cone of silence.”

But at 8 p.m. ET, as Warren said that, McCain was actually not in the building. He was just leaving his hotel, with his motorcade arriving at the church nearly a half hour into the event. A. Larry Ross, a spokesman for Warren, says McCain then went directly into the holding room they dubbed the “cone of silence” (in reality, a room with no TV or audio).

Some questioned whether that late arrival might have allowed McCain to hear some of the questions being first posed to Obama.

Warren told CNN Sunday evening, “we flat out asked him” if he heard any of the questions. The McCain campaign “confirmed that McCain did not hear or see any of the broadcast” in the motorcade or after he arrived, Ross said.

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[atreides1]

1. The Pastor is an Idiot

Especially if he believes anyone in the McCain campaign.

Maybe some people were correct that this was a set up and that Warren was in on it the whole time.


I wonder what McCain promised him?

[Impedimentus]

4. Did Warren really think ...

that McCain would admit to cheating!O8)

[liberal1973]

23. No kidding

Rick warren is a right wing hack.

[tsuki]

29. The Pastor(?) is a Fundamentalist who saw the writing on the wall.

He decided 16 months ago that hate, hate, hate was not going to be the money generating force it once was, so he started "feeling" that the message was one of luv fer the pore.

Let me rephrase one of CNN's questions...Is Warren the Anti-Christ?

[DesertFlower]

2. if he lied,

he will be forgiven. isn't that what christians believe?

[dbonds]

6. I believe he has to also confess his sins.

In this case to the people he sinned against.

[DesertFlower]

8. as a catholic he would,

but as a regular christian, doesn't he just ask jesus for forgiveness?

a christian woman told me that when she dies, it will be jesus who judges her.

[dbonds]

11. Of course there is no scripture that says it will be Jesus.

[DesertFlower]

14. i wouldn't know.

i've never read scriptures. i was raised catholic and now i'm an atheist.

[dbonds]

17. I had the horror of being raised baptist...

now I'm esoteric/gnostic.

[DesertFlower]

18. i could ask my granddaughter

who is a born again christian, but we don't talk about religion.

[thereismore]

13. And to God, which is fairly easy. nt

[liberal1973]

26. oh yeah he lied

As for the forgiving part? Hopefully the guy will burn in hell.

[Spazito]

3. "Did not hear or see any of the broadcast"

Notice they did not answer the question:

"Warren told CNN Sunday evening, “we flat out asked him” if he heard any of the questions."


Answer from the McCain campaign:

"The McCain campaign “confirmed that McCain did not hear or see any of the broadcast” in the motorcade or after he arrived, Ross said.

When asked if McCain overheard anything, Charlie Black, a McCain adviser who was with him at the time, told CNN: "We were in motorcade until 5:30 p.m. ET; then a holding room in another building with no TV."


It is obvious to me that the way in which the campaign avoided answering the question speaks volumes that he was told what the questions were by his staff.

[Misskittycat]

7. All they needed was a person inside the church audience with a cell phone to

call and relay the questions. Actually, all they needed was a person in front of a TV located anywhere with a cell phone to relay the questions. That would give them lots of time to prep answers.

[Spazito]

9. Exactly what happened, imo

The way the McCain campaign carefully phrased their non-answer to the question is very telling.

[ProSense]

10. All he needed was satellite radio to hear the entire broadcast.

Motorcade my ass.

[zulchzulu]

5. You could smell a rat with this "debate"

First of all, most of the questions were inane and secondly, the audience was so openly pro-McCain and his answers were uncannily spun that you can see just how wretched the whole event was.

[Diane R]

12. Yes. The pastor lied, McCain cheated. If he hadn't arrived he should have been asked new questions

[BlooInBloo]

15. Golly, I've never heard of a pastor lying before....

:rofl:

[Me.]

16. Of Course He Didn't Hear Or See Any Of The Questions

His staff did, and then told him. But he personally did not hear or see any of the questions.

[NorthCarolina]

19. I personally tend to believe McCain more than likely had the questions days before the broadcast

eom

[1Hippiechick]

20. check the coin - probably heads on both sides....n/t

[Lucinda]

21. So....you really thought there was a cone of silence?

[tbyg52]

24. Yes, and a shoe phone as well. nt

[Lucinda]

25. LOL

[grantcart]

22. My guess is that someone beside the pastor gained access to the questions

before the debate. He didn't have enough time to prep those answers while Obama was speaking.

I also don't think that Warren wants to do anything funny, as far as I know he supports Obama personally, but professionally he has no reason to risk his reputation for McCain. Other people in the office may have had access to the questions however.

[Riddler]

27. "We flat out asked him"??????? That legitimizes it? You, reverend, FLAT OUT LIED

to America when you stated McCain was safely in a cone of silence. So if YOU, good reverend, in all your Christian righteous b.s. can stand there and tell a bold-faced lie to America, we're supposed to take McLame's word simply because you "flat out asked him?" What a scam this entire thing was.

[guruoo]

28. He arrived late so he could review questions without any witnesses around?

[truthisfreedom]

30. What a crock of Christian shit.

Now I've heard it all. Bush with his fake back-lump receiving device and earpiece, and McCheater with his cell-phone coverage of the question and answer session with Obama. SICKENING!

[inthebrain]

31. I heard he was doing lines in the bathroom off some chicks ass.