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The Purpose-Driven Pastor Grills the Candidates

by Greg Asimakoupoulos

Posted: August 24, 2008

Rick Warren's burger-bash at Saddleback…

Those purpose-driven interviews
should help the ones who saw them choose
between Barack and John McCain.
That was the purpose, right?

Rick Warren's brainstorm brought relief
from red-hot coals and little beef.
The burger-bash at Saddleback
proved rare yet was well-done.

Obama feels quite at home in church.
At least in Rev. Wright's old perch.
But Warren's pulpit boasts a book
Barack explains away.

Still, don't think old man John a saint.
He's covered up his past with paint.
And yet in spite of moral flaws
he knows amazing grace.



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