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Showdown at Saddleback By William Kristol, New York Times August 18, 2008 Article Excerpt.
While normal people were out having fun Saturday night, I was home in front of the TV. But I wasn't enjoying the Olympics. Your diligent columnist was dutifully watching Barack Obama and John McCain answer the Rev. Rick Warren's questions at Saddleback Church. Virtue is sometimes rewarded. The event was worth watching -- and for me yielded three conclusions.
First, Rick Warren should moderate one of the fall presidential debates.
Warren's queries were simple but probing. He was fair to both candidates, his manner was relaxed but serious, and he neither went for "gotcha" questions nor pulled his punches. And his procedure of asking virtually identical questions to each candidate during his turn on stage paid off. It allowed us to see the two giving revealingly different answers to the same question.
So, I say, with all due respect to Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw and Bob Schieffer -- the somewhat nondiverse group selected by the debates commission as the three presidential debate moderators -- one of them should step aside for Warren.
Second, it was McCain's night. Click here to read the entire article.
Saddleback: Straight Talk Express Meets the Great Conversationalist. By David Davenport, San Francisco Chronicle. August 18, 2008, Article Excerpts:
Lake Forest, Orange County -- When President Bill Clinton played his saxophone on the late-night "Arsenio Hall Show" in 1992, it was obvious that presidential campaigns had changed. That evolution continued Saturday night when presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain made their first joint appearance of the 2008 campaign. This time, it was not in a televised debate moderated by reporters in a university auditorium, but at an evangelical church conducted over a cup of coffee with its pastor.
The Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency, moderated by mega-church pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren, turned out to be more interesting and politically important than one might have expected, as the presumptive nominees discussed heartland issues of leadership, worldview, domestic policy and America's place in the world. Going in, the significance of the event seemed to be its church setting and audience of 2,200 church members, and the increasingly important evangelical Christian voter. From what I saw there, it was that and more. Click here to read the entire article.
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