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How anyone can say McCain "did pretty well." He stuck to bits of stump speech and rehearsed, maudlin stories (the one about the cross in the dirt sounded made up for the occasion; maybe he's told it before, but I hadn't heard it) -- where Obama gave thoughtful, even-handed responses to the questions he was asked, at the level of abstraction or spirituality that they were asked. (McCain took a question about the concept of evil and turned it straight into a worn-out rah-rah for the war in Iraq, trying to float once again the idea that we're "winning".) Yes, I'm an Obama supporter, but I'm not stupid. If McCain had said anything vaguely original or heartfelt, I'd have seen it, I would acknowledge it. He didn't.
And though Warren did a pretty decent job, he laughed too hard at McCain's lame jokes, clearly enjoyed the depressing amount of approval McCain received from the church audience. Why is it so many men who claim to be followers of Jesus -- you know, that skinny guy hanging on the cross, who talked about giving whatever you have to someone else who needs it more -- always so well-fed?
