John McCain and Barack Obama Visit Rick Warren

John McCain and Barack Obama recently visited the Saddleback Church, of which Rick Warren is the pastor of. Both candidates were asked the same questions, so the forum was very unbiased.

Now, I know John McCain is a huge panderer. He has a huge list of flip-flops on almost every issue in the book. He has even been inconsistent on his support for certain evangelicals and their leadership, calling them "agents of intolerance." Of course, McCain has since reversed that comment, because guess what? He now NEEDS every vote from the very type of people he called agents of intolerance.

I am not so sure about the sincerity of someone like McCain. He seems to be a textbook politician, flipping and flopping his way through every single issue where he needs to in order to get support.

With that being said, I think McCain did pretty well at the civil forum hosted by Pastor Warren. But look at where he was at... a pandering McCain will ALWAYS choose the applause line depending on the forum he is in. If he was in a more liberal type of venue, I am certain his answers would not have been as direct, and maybe even skewed a little more toward that particular audience's point-of-view.

Listen to John McCain in the video below (from year 2000) as he talks about the "intolerance and wrongheadedness" of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. He mentions them by name, but do you realize the underlying message from him there is that strong, unwaivering Christians are roadblocks and intolerant bigots who are in the way of the Republican party.



Now McCain wants our support and has since started to heavily pander to the Christian right. Is this a man that we can trust to really see and represent our point of view? I am not so sure he has earned that kind of trust.