I'll make this quick because if I dwell on it for too long my head will explode.
Tomorrow night Barack Obama and John McCain are going to spend an entire evening giving a command performance for Rick Warren -- pastor, author of those insipid Purpose Driven Life books, one-man evangelicatainment phenomenon and a guy who's bested only by Elvis and Jesus himself in the minds of NASCAR America.
Warren promises to ask tough questions of the two candidates as they attend his personal "Compassion Forum," held at the Saddleback "mega-church" in California.
And just what topics will he be grilling them on?
"I'm going to ask them questions about character, competence, about values, vision, virtue, about their convictions in leadership, about their experience. And I'm going to deal with their personal life - because character matters. Their personal life does matter as a leader. God says so."
So just for planning purposes, should anything actually important come up -- you know, war, terrorism, unemployment, $4.50-a-gallon gas, home foreclosures, Russian tanks rolling through Georgia -- you'll know where to find the next leader of the free world.
He'll be shooting the shit with Pastor Rick, discussing how 2,000 year old superstition guides him and bragging about how much he loves Jesus in an effort to nail down that all-important "fucking idiot" vote.
Because God says so.
Related (since I'm too damn frustrated and exhausted to get into this in any more detail):
(He Blinded Me Without Science/8.12.08)
(WWJD? WTF?/11.29.07)
(Faith No More/6.8.07)
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