Supposedly McCain blamed traffic congestion as the reason why he was late getting to the church. Warren said he asked McCain is he heard any of the broadcast and McCain said he did not.

Even if you take McCain at his word that he didn't hear the broadcast, that doesn't mean somebody didn't text/phone him the questions.

Something stinks.

Found this vid over at Kos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n83M-jgOaJQ&e

Ah, ah, now the truth is coming up. I am sure there was something odd, McBushSame was acting nervous, but he never took time to think about his answers...

His answers were always short, as if he knew what to say.

thank you for the story,

Adding this to the fact that mcbush seemed to have plagiarized from Soljenitsin...

Another reasons why McBushSame, aka the war mongerer can not be elected...

As an Evangelical, I respect Warren, but is he really willing to believe a man who:

-cheated on his first wife

-lied about the cause of the Sunni Awakening

-lies about any and all previous statements

-lies about DHL and Ohio

-lies about his statements on economics

-lies in most campaign ads

-and probably lied about his "cross story" (see
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/mccains-cross-i.html)

Really??

McCain's statement: My friends, I would never cheat....and did you know I was a POW?

Or that McCain could have had a televison in his car and was watching the program all the way there. I wouldn't put anything past these repukes.

Reminds me of that odd little rectangle under Bush's suit back when he was debating...

The GOP does not nominate eggheads. They don't have any... period. Thus the amiable goofs they do send before the electorate always need a little "assistance."

As always, as always, the big question is why the MSM don't call them on their cheatin' ways.

I assume Rick Warren composed these questions beforehand (were they on a teleprompter) and it's likely that one of McCain's fans from the church gave the questions to someone in McCain's camp. That would have given McCain time to prepare.

Here's the McCain Camp response to this -

Nicolle Wallace, a spokeswoman for Mr. McCain, said on Sunday night that Mr. McCain had not heard the broadcast of the event while in his motorcade and heard none of the questions. “The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous,” Ms. Wallace said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/17/223559/885/1016/569531

Now I can't personally verify if this is legit so I posted where I got it from.

“The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," of course cheating numerous times on his wife doesn't count, or the Keating Five scandal for that matter. Two times where POW McCain admitted guilt (though after the fact).

McCain is really becoming "noun, verb and POW".

Over at Politico you should see the rage at NBC for the "biased" coverage of daring to question McCain's cone of silence.

But McCain was a POW for 5 and 1/2 years. He can cheat and lie about his wife and abandon her. And 25 years later, lie about anything he wants to, to become President. He's earned that from us all. And shame on any of us who dare to question his 5 1/2 years as a POW (did we mention, he was a POW tortured for 5 1/2 years? okay then) for any crazy or duplicitous thing he does or says...ever. Free Pass for life.

So nothing to see here. Move alone. This is not the honour or honest faith based forum you were looking for. Move along. The MSM and the McCain camp have a story to tell about a crisp, smart, decisive leader. Your facts about his cheating, are just getting in the way. Please move along. Elections to win, countries to destroy.

Someone should put together a commercial that features all the rulings the supreme court members McCain doesn't like have voted for, and superimpose the fact that none of these things would be law if McCain had his way. It would be a long and powerful list.

At least the story is getting play, and if there was foul play, the McCain camp is not fully getting away with it.

I keep looking at the transcript and video, along with the subsequent media coverage. Rick Warren used the present tense to refer to McCain being in the cone of silence at the start of the forum. However, we know that he was not. Warren also asked McCain at the start of his session how comfortable he was in the cone of silence. McCain claimed he tried to listen through the walls. But we know that for at least 30 minutes and maybe longer, he wasn't in the cone of silence, let alone in the building. We also know that Warren has claimed he gave the candidates a heads-up on either the first, or the first two questions. But I linger on that part of the transcript where McCain, eager to talk about judges and unborn babies, seems to want to answer a question out of order and Warren says "you got all my questions, good." At this point, well past the first two questions, with McCain referring to a future --as yet unasked -- question, Warren's reference seems all encompassing. Not just about one or two questions, but all of his questions.

This is like playing Concentration. We're getting a rebus picture as the clues unfold, and to me it's a picture lying and cheating.