Rick Warren: McCain will be in a “Cone of Silence”…I think.
Ok, so many of you probably saw Obama’s and McCain’s performances during the Saddlebeck Forum on Faith led by Pastor Rick Warren. However did you know that McCain “possibly” cheated and listened in on Obama being interviewed first?
Senator John McCain was not in a “cone of silence” on Saturday night while his rival, Senator Barack Obama, was being interviewed at the Saddleback Church in California… The matter is of interest because Mr. McCain, who followed Mr. Obama’s hourlong appearance in the forum, was asked virtually the same questions as Mr. Obama. Mr. McCain’s performance was well received, raising speculation among some viewers, especially supporters of Mr. Obama, that he was not as isolated during the Obama interview as Mr. Warren implied.
Mr. Warren, the pastor of Saddleback, had assured the audience while he was interviewing Mr. Obama that “we have safely placed Senator McCain in a cone of silence” and that he could not hear the questions… Interviewed Sunday on CNN, Mr. Warren seemed surprised to learn that Mr. McCain was not in the building during the Obama interview. Source
This is significant because they were asked the same questions, and with McCain going second, listening in would have given him an unfair advantage. This so-called Forum on Faith was really a test for a portion of the evangelical votes at stake in this election. “McLame” was able to cheat on this test. The truth is, “McSame” wasn’t even in the building while Obama was being interviewed.
However when Rick Warren asked,
“Was the cone of silence comfortable that you were in just now?”
Mr. McCain replied,
“I was trying to hear through the wall.”
Of course McCain spokesperson Nicole Wallace said,
“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous.”
Ha! As if this is the first time McCain, the former prisoner of war, has cheated.
Does it strike anyone else as strange that the broadcast began with half the “show” missing? Why did Warren go before cameras and audience and tell us that McCan’t was in-house when he hadn’t yet arrived? First Warren tells us McCan’t in a “cone of silence” then later he tells us he was unable to give McCan’t (like Barack) an advanced question, because he wasn’t there.
And, um, exactly WHEN did this so called coin toss-up happen? Unless it was previously decided which man would go first- Barack did not have a fair chance to go second. I swear, this whole thing smacks of a set-up! I don’t know if this Rick Warren was a willing participant in his friend’s unfair play. But if he wasn’t… I’d say that he GOT unfairly played, too, and with friends like cheatin’ cootie McCan’t… who needs enemies?
Now COME ON….you expected a republican, invited to an event by evangelicals, to play by the rules???!!!
I would be more suprised if he didn’t cheat. Remember who you are dealing with, or let me remind you…
Rove, Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, etc. McSame probably can’t even say what he wants to anymore….
Did anyone else notice the abortion question? McCain was asked ” 85 % of Americans believe life takes place at conception, what do you believe?” To which McCain promptly answered at conception. Obama was merely asked for his views on abortion and wasn’t fed the answer as Mccain was.
The so called man of honor, has no honor. It is obvious to everyone who heard Mccain respond to questions in the past that he had access to the questions. What a fraud, no honor and willing to do anything to gain the presidency!
Man of honor my A$$!
Obama didn’t have a teleprompter or pre-written plagairized speech to fall back on. So thus he looked like a
s-st-stuttering idiot.
It was obvious that minibush was just repeating what he had been told. He isn’t really that quick on serious issues. Even his town halls, where he stands alone so noone notices how short he is, he’s slower than what should have been a pretty anxiety inducing forum. Maybe didn’t know the questions-hah! Something that bothers me. Whether he knew the questions or not, there was no sign of a thought process. Reminds me of-”find something about Iraq.” Blindly aserting what you must to reach your predetermined result is something that we should all be tired of. Oh well, still to come from the neoconmen-Obama is a mother raper and a baby eater and vise versa.
Obviously mcCain had the opportunity to cheat. Even if he was just sitting in the motorcade as they say, he had access to computers and cellphones, and prpbably sattelite tv. He definitely had the ability to gain an edge and I believe that he did.
this is pathetic. first, DOES ANYONE THINK ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS WERE SURPRISES? was it a surprise to be asked about abortion at a fundamentalist church? all of the questions are easily anticipated, or should have been.
mccain looked better than obama, so now it’s about the cone of silence.
PEOPLE. THAT IS A PHRASE FROM ‘GET SMART’.
this campaign has devolved into idiocy.
mccain is tromping over obama.
stop arguing about cones of silence, and start talking health care.
If McCain heard the Obama interview or was coached by someone who had it would disprove the “dim-witted old man” myth of partisan Dems - you would have to be sharp as a tack to retain all that information - don’t you think?
Or is it more likely that McCain has a core of beliefs that allows for decisive answers while Obama has no core thus the equivocating. In the end the boy wonder failed his first test answering direct questions - maybe he should go back to the Tyra Banks show or Germany
McCain’s Macaca Moment or (McCaca Moment)
McCain lied directly to the American people and 2000 people sitting in the church Saturday night:
He could have easily answered Rick Warren”s question about his time in the “Cone of Silence”, (while Obama was answering the questions), by telling the truth about his being en-route to the event, not back stage as Warren thought he was. If McCain would lie about this in front of a Christian Church, imagine what he will do with the reins of power if we are stupid enough to give them to him���.And if there is any doubt that McCain knew the questions before he stepped on stage:
Can someone explain to me HOW in the world McCain was able to answer 3 questions in a row BEFORE Warren had even asked them???
McCain said: “Yes. Yes. And find bad teachers another line of work.”
Hahaha, funny, right? Warren hadn’t even asked the question yet!!! And he never actually did since McCain had already blurted out his response ahead of time. But because his questions were the same as Obama’s, you can go back to hear Warren read all 3 questions. The first were Yes/No questions, the third had to do with unqualified teachers. McCain seemed to have a response as to what to do with under-qualified teachers before Warren even brought the subject up.
McCain’s people were listening while in their motorcade.