Anyone who knows my politics knows that I am about as big an anti-religion person as it gets when it comes to the involvement of faith in politics. That being said, America is the last developed country that lets religion play an inexcusably large role in its politics - and explains why both Barack Obama and John McCain took time to visit another evangelist pastor, Rick Warren, to go talk about their beliefs.
What's more of a farce is that the whole thing was unbiased, though. Both candidates were asked the same questions, but with Obama going first, McCain was supposed to be under a 'cone of silence' (what the hell kind of term is that, anyways) - in other words, he and his advisers were under the honor code in not watching the questions ahead of time when they were posed to Obama. Republicans, being the amoral kind of people they tend to be when it comes to politics, didn't obey the rules...which explains why McCain answered the questions before they were even asked. Given that he finished 5th from bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, it's not really much of a surprise that he would cheat.
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