Saddle up: Saddleback Forum open thread; Obama on abortion: “Above my pay grade,” attacks Clarence Thomas
For those of you watching the Rick Warren/Obama/McCain show tonight, here’s your open thread.
Watch online here.
Wake me up if anything interesting happens.
Like I said before, I’m not holding my breath…
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Obama on abortion: It’s “above his pay grade.” What the…
Obama on which Supreme Court justice he wouldn’t have nominated: Clarence Thomas.
Disturbingly, commenters note, the Saddleback audience cheered.
RACIST!
(Update): Allah’s got the near-gaffetastic video of Obama’s Thomas remarks.
Mark Levin: “On Obama’s best day he can’t hold a candle to Thomas’s intelligence.”
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McCain on when babies are entitled to human rights: “At the moment of conception…this presidency will have pro-life policies.”
Define marriage: “A union between a man and a woman. One man and one woman.”
Warren asks about California marriage preservation proposition and Calif. Supreme Court. “California Supreme Court was wrong.”
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Uh, no. Try San Franciso, or maybe the 9th circuit circus of appeals.
This is going to be seen as BAD for BHO.
If anyone is watching and wanted answers
from BHO, even an intelligent discussion,
they didn’t find it with BHO
Seriously, guys.
Key Lime Pie.
It helps make the sacarin go down.
The Q was would he ignore, negotiate, contain or defeat evil. He answered none of the four. Says “confront”.
What Russia is doing in Georgia is evil.
He blew a perfect chance to look tough, but it didn’t even occur to him.
BHO is a fraud, an empty suit.
BSR
One of the most important jobs of the Supreme Court is to guard against the encroachment of the Executive branch on the authority of the other branches?
I…
Um…
I thought this guy went to law school? Did he sleep through the ten minutes dedicated to the US Constitution.
Obama, living proof that law schools need to go back to teaching the Constitution as opposed to case law.
Ah…waffling again.
Devil’s in the details…about faith based initiatives.
He’s going both ways again.
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He fails the faith bases questions.
He blew the Abortion Question he didn’t help himself at all.
But we use federal funding to discriminate against babies
Boy, I can’t wait until McCain comes on.
This is painful to watch.
rofl @ 30,
I do have to give Warren his props for this. These questions are pretty hard-hitting.
OK, now onto taxes.
Define “rich”. Oh this is going to be great!
blameamericalast,
They have reformative justice up in Vermont, I can tell Obama is one of those redeemers
Okay, Michelle, don’t ban me for this, it is JUST a metaphor: Ya’ gotta have cloven hooves to walk a tightrope like this.
sorry restorative justice
I would pay to have a splitscreen with Matthews doing the happy dance on the other side .
250 K in Cali is poor
wow teachers are underpaid??? a dm bachlors degree and they are under paid!! let them set their own salery??
I picked the wrong job!!!!
how about we fire all teachers and let them work in the privte sector for a few years!!!
Whose Rich?
e eee eeee, here’s how I think about it.
150 down you are middle class.
if you make more than 250,000 you are rich. Tax the evil rich!
Oh oh…waiting for those typical liberal buzz words…
Equality, fairness, etc.
Waiting…3..2..1
TAX MAN COMETH and his name is BO
He is going to tag people for more taxes, who worked and played by the rules. A modest increase?
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As a benefit, if things get even more boring there’s lots of other stuff to watch.
But remember, it’s a secret, shhhh…
To BHO’s 24MM money jab, Pastor Warren should have said, “yes, but I’m not running for President. Please answer the question.”
BHO has no clue how to answer and he should have seen this coming. Not ready for prime time.
Yeah, no kidding.
9.3% state income tax, and sales tax @ 8%
And at $250K, you’re at what, the 36.9% rate? And if you get hit with the AMT, then you’re really screwed.
“I’m going to….”, in regard to taxes. Uh….isn’t that the Executive Branch encroaching on the Legislative Branch?
The President doesn’t get to make law.
I think he needs to run that past his SCOTUS nominee…..
Dang, my household income is ONLY 80k, im poor!
You think he’s getting the thrill up his leg yet?
Soooooooo, those people who have income four or five times the poverty line and would get SCHIP help thanks to these guys, would they be getting a tax increase to pay for it?
Things that make you go WHA’?
or his grandma vic….
How many failed social programs does Obama want to re institute? A modest increase are we talking paying for night time basketball again to keep kids off the streets?
this sounds like his stump speech but with ee..eeee.eeee…let’s look at the general picture before he starts with the same old crap and doesn’t deal with the specifics. If 150,000 and below is not rich, where do the folks making between 150 and 250 fit in? Tax, Tax, Tax…B.S.
What community has this organizer ever succeeded in bring from proverty?
crickets……
Oh so patriotic. Too bad he doesn’t have time for living troops. With all respect.
MERCY,
Don’t feel too bad. After two decades of back-breaking overwork, I’m still just making 85k and having a hard time affording my two mortgages.
We is ALL po’
IIIIIIIII, IIIIIII uuhhhhhhhhh, duhhhhhhhhh
no hard and fast line, let’s all talk about it….what crap.
Darfur is not the only country in turmoil what about Zimbabwea they are in really bad shape too. I never here him mention other countrys in Africa, okay Kenya.
I just heard 30 ppl applauding. How many does that place hold? Bring on McCain.
BayState…
3000 people are there.
What has he ever done for Darfur? All these STARS, and BHO is included, talk talk talk but how much do they give give give.
I think if McCain goes on and just sneezes he’ll get more applause.
AGAIN!!! Public health around the world!!!! dm this fool
Orphans, Johnny boy, has adopted a girl, so this will be a good one for him.
and one dope
Three adopted kids in my home. The adoption tax credit was a slam dunk. He just needs to be an advocate.
Preventing orphans? Nice to know he’ll be king of the world.
He’s in trouble, giving GWB his due.
persecution, like we talk to them, like oh my god, don’t you know this….
We are going to talk, talk, talk….
Do nothing democrats.
Blame AMERICA
He got applause for complimenting George W Bush, on his aid to the international community to stop A.I.D.S.
People’s faith needs to be protected?
Congress shall make no law…
Blame America for religious persecution??? uhhhh, this guy is lame, and obviously doesn’t live in the real world
… but the Supreme Court …
OMG, he won’t repeat the answer he gave to the 7 yr old girl.
Give Prosecutors the tools? We have Johnny Sutton down here. I don’t think it is lack of legal tools. that we need to stop human trafficking.
Thousands trapped in enslavement HERE!!!
Sounds like a something a Republican President knows how to solve.
don’t be mean, don’t hurt anybody’s feelings. B.S.
Whatever… what about Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School?
You wanna help, right?
The problem is that we already know how he wants to prevent orphans.
he wants to be president so he can be empathetic????? WTHell
Rick Warren has asked more pointed questions than I anticipated that he would….I am anxious to see McCain now.
A Bridge too far. Good night nurse…
commen sense solutions??? I wish he would name one.
I can’t watch this crap anymore. I am going back to my truck where I can put on a Star Wars dvd and check back here occasionally.
All I can say is, I am thunderstruck that anyone would pull a lever for this man.
who is the crowd made up of?
He’s a person of faith. Oh, you mean Rev. Wrights kind of faith?
Obama told Warren we needed more conversations like this….is that why he turned down those town hall meetings with McCain?
These are the kinds of forums we need???
Then why do you keep refusing to do them?
I hope a lot of people are seeing this toolbag.
Answering the forum question. He is having a conversation without having to face John McCain, he is taking a turn, it is lame. I think John McCain, would have no trouble sitting at the table with them both at the same time.
Well put, RW
That was beyond lame.
Beer. I’m getting through this with beer.
A price to pay
sacerfice
tax tax tax tax tax tax
for global warming
What sacrifice has Obama ever made? But there is no reason not to ask Americans to make sacrifices?
leave the stage idiot
Thank God, Mrs. Smith, and Mike’s Pies (www.mikespies.com)
for Key Lime Pie.
I made it through an hour of Senator B.O. for the first time.
A personal best.
Oh yeah…the typical white person who he dained to spend a whole hour with on his family vacation while his wife & kids played at the beach?
The kids in my family would be the first ones to run to their grandma’s house! They wouldn’t stand for a, “You go play while I visit G-ma”.
get off the stage!
I hope-naaa I expect-naa I demand McCain to blow BO away in honesty!!
I am watching this on CNN John McCain got a big welcome then they cut away.
BAL—– Beyond lame indeed
Oops….”deigned”.
*blush*
Ooh! Great idea! Time for the Guiness! Thanks!
smooth, elagant, and relaxed?? I did not see that, I must have fell asleep when that happened.
vickisoup,
I hope it is because he is trying to keep the press away from her, keep her out of it. She has mentioned not being in good health. I want to think, that he is putting her first. I Really want to believe he is being human about his grandmother.
Fox News has the panel discussion, and they are all idiots.
Couldn’t stand to watch Obama…..but I haven’t seen McCain blowing anyone away with his ability to talk without a teleprompter.
Hopefully, he won’t do worse than Obama.
Good lord, the folks on Foz mainly think Obama did well…were they watching the same show I was?
I can’t believe the crowd on FoxNews is actually thinking he did well!
I haven’t even had a beer yet and I know he was horrible!
Yeah, when asked about evil, he didn’t bring up Al Queda…or AghINeedAJob in Iran who wants the nation of Israel to be destroyed or eliminated off the map!
Who brainwashed the Fox News panel?
They obviuosly haven’t been watching the same BHO interview I was
McCain has a high bar to make? I bet 70% of MM’s posters could make BO’s bar.
That’s “Fox” sorry…
Krauthammer just nailed BO on the Thomas diss – he’s not one to name lack of experience for high office!
If McCain starts in with that compassionate Immigration reform I am going to….
GREAT ANSWER JOHN<<<