Saddleback forum followup
By Mark Czerniec
August 18, 2008 1:05 PM

There were a number of interesting moments in Saturday night's "Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency," but one that I have not seen mentioned came as part of John McCain's response to a question about taxes. Part 5 of Pastor Rick Warren's transcript quotes McCain as saying:

In fact, I want to give working Americans a better shot at having a better life and we all know the challenges, my friends, if I could be serious. Americans tonight in California and all over America are sitting at the kitchen table, recently and suddenly lost a job, can't afford to stay in their home, education for their kids, affordable health care, these are tough problems. These are tough problems. You talk to them every day.

Q: All the time?

Every day. My friends, we have got to give them hope and confidence in the future. That's what we need to give them and I can inspire them. I can lead and I know that our best days are ahead of us.

Hope? People who have lost their jobs and homes lack inspiration and so McCain is going to give them hope? Isn't this exactly the thrust of his attacks on Barack Obama?

Also, according to the New York Times, Rev. Warren's vaunted "cone of silence" appears to have been nothing more than a joking reference to Get Smart — funny methodology from a man putting the ethics of two potential presidents under his own microscope. Maybe this will come up when Warren guests on Larry King Live tonight.

 

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