Monday, August 18, 2008

Team Obama concedes Saddleback defeat

It wasn’t gracious, but unless you sing in the Obama’s Come to Save Us Choir you know it was a concession of defeat.

From USA Today:

"Absolutely a lie, absolutely a lie."

So says Rev. Rick Warren about any suggestion that there was a TV or other monitoring equipment in the "green room" where Republican presidential candidate John McCain was waiting Saturday evening for his turn to go on stage for the pastor's "Civil Forum on the Presidency."

Warren talked to Beliefnet.com's God-o-Meter blog.

As we noted earlier, the McCain campaign strongly protested after NBC News' Andrea Mitchell said on the air yesterday that some aides to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama thought that McCain might have been able to listen as Obama and Warren were talking during the first half of the forum. McCain was supposed to be -- as Warren said when he opened the program Saturday -- in a "cone of silence."

Later, it became known that McCain hadn't yet arrived at Saddleback Church when the Obama-Warren part of the forum began. The GOP senator was in a motorcade on his way there. His aides have said he did not listen to start of the session while en route.

The entire USA Today post is here.

Hat tip: Danvers

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

John -

Slightly off topic - You might want to check out this column by Stanley Kurtz at NRO: "Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown? A cover-up in the making?" at:

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM
2Y2OGI0NDM=

Is there some revelation in those records (no longer publicly available) about St. Barack's relationship to William Ayers.

Jack in Silver Spring

Anonymous said...

John:

"you know it was a concession of defeat"

Hopefully, it will not be his last concession of defeat.

Ken
Dallas

Anonymous said...

John:

"you know it was a concession of defeat"

Hopefully, it will not be his last concession of defeat.

Ken
Dallas

Anonymous said...

Ken: I sure hope you are right. If not, as Mike Nifong once said, "We're f***ed"!