Rick Warren

Watching the performance of Sen. Barack Obama during the Saddleback Showdown on CNN this past weekend was almost like watching Dancing With The Stars on ABC… well at least the first half-hour of it. While Sen. John McCain clearly was driving the straight talk express, Obama was trying to impress all of us with his two-step.

McCain was poised and on point, speaking from the heart and answering the questions directly. Obama on the other hand…I will say this, his answers were rather telling for me. Mark this as the only time where I agree with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright when he called his now former church member a typical politician. This was on full display during the forum as he tried giving crowd-pleasing answers to the questions. 

One that jumped out at me was his description of his faith in Jesus Christ. Obama said towards the end of his response, “It means that those sins that I have on a fairly regular basis hopefully will be washed away.” I am a born-again Christian and there are two things that were taught to me upfront when I became one. 

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