Ticket Notice: Sunday guests--Giuliani, Dodd, both McCains

ABC This Week: Cindy McCain; Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC/McCain supporter) and John Kerry (D-Mass./Obama supporter); round table with Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts, George Will and Matthew Dowd of ABC News.

CBS Face the Nation: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (keynote speaker, Republican National Convention); Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn./McCain supporter); Carly Fiorina (senior advisor, McCain campaign); David Brooks of the New York Times.

CNN Late Edition:
Campaign '08/Republican convention: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio); Govs. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.), Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) and Mark Sanford (R-S.C.); former GOP presidential contender Fred Thompson; Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.); Nancy Pfotenhauer (McCain campaign advisor); former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.). Hurricane Gustav: FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison.

Fox News Sunday: Sen. John McCain
 
NBC Meet the Press: Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.); round table with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, GOP strategist Mike Murphy, and David Gregory and Kelly O'Donnell of NBC News.

--Andrew Malcolm

Photo credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times

Comments

[Back From Iraq]

[LA Times Quote] Interestingly, the pitch doesn't mention "family values" or her commitment to the causes near and dear to social conservatives -- probably because there's no need for her to do so. [End Quote]
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Probably. Maybe carrying a Down's Syndrome child to term, or raising a nineteen year old son who volunteers to enlist in the U.S. Army in time of war, or pursuing corruption, even in her own party, or staying married to a real man who works while managing to keep her family together. Sounds like family values to me.

--McCain-Palin ’08--

[ROSETTA PERRY]

BE CAREFULL WHAT YOU ASK GOD TO DO....HE MAY NOT COME WHEN YOU WANT HIM TO........ BUT HE IS AN ON TIME GOD......

ELECTION 2008
New call for rain on Obama's parade
Baptist pastor reinstates campaign dropped by Focus Action

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Posted: August 19, 2008
10:13 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Stuart Shepard appearing his his 'Mea Culpa' video
DENVER – The call for prayer for a rainstorm on this city's football stadium when Sen. Barack Obama delivers his nomination-acceptance speech there next week, dropped by a Focus on the Family Action personality, has been picked up by a former official of the Southern Baptist Convention.
"Stuart Shepard is invited to lead us in this prayer for rain any day," Pastor Wiley Drake, a former vice president for the SBC, said in an announcement about his plan. "Other prayer warriors are welcome not only to pray for rain but repentance in America as well."
Shepard is the director of digital media for Focus on the Family Action, which pulled from its website and YouTube a video in which he asked people to pray for "rain of biblical proportions" during Obama's acceptance speech during the Democratic National Convention in Denver Aug. 28.
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The political arm of Focus on the Family said it pulled the video after complaints from its constituents. Shepard said the video was "mildly humorous" and called for Christians to pray for "abundant, torrential" rains during the speech in order to disrupt it.
He said his goal was to pray for rain that would create flash flood warnings and "swamp" Denver streets.
"I'm still pro-life, and I'm still in favor of marriage as being between one man and one woman," he said in the video. "And I would like the next president who will select justices for the next Supreme Court to agree."
Drake, an activist who has been targeted by opponents of his Christian ministry for using his own radio program to discuss moral issues in the public arena, said he was saddened to see Focus pull the video.
So he's taking up the subject on his "Telephonic Prayer Meeting," held daily for people who have prayer requests.
That meeting is from 5-7 a.m. at 1-712-432-1690, access code 399430, he said.
"I, too, am still against killing babies and a llowing sodomites to marry. Anyone wishing to join those of us who believe in imprecatory prayer (for divine justice) are invited to join," he said.
Tom Minnery, Focus Action vice president of public policy, said his organization would regret if someone took the call for prayer for rain on Obama seriously.
The "Pray for Rain" was posted July 30 and scored 20,000 views on the Internet in a short time, Shepard said. It was one of Shepard's weekly video commentaries that appear on Focus Action's website.
The general tone has been tongue-in-cheek as Shepard evaluates political issues from the conservative Christian viewpoint of Focus Action.
The video showed Shepard at Denver's Invesco Field, seeking prayer for "torrential" rain during Obama's speech.
"I'm talking 'umbrella-ain't-going-to-help-you rain,'" he said on the video.
His poin t was that Obama's stances on abortion and homosexual marriage don't line up with what many believe to be the Christian perspective on those issues.
Minnery said the complaints focused on using prayer to cause harm.
"We are not about confusing people about prayer," Minnery told the Colorado Springs Gazette at the time.
Shepard, in a new video titled "Mea Culpa", talks about his week after having been named "Worst Person in the World" by a video commentator for his prayer suggestion.
"What a week I'm having," he says. "My little video asking people to pray for rain on Sen. Obama's speech … has drawn a wee bit of attention."
He says the earlier video was pulled "out of respect for [the viewers]," and he thanks the "mainstream media" for dropping by. Those thanks are delivered while Shepard is being soaked by a colleague holding a running garden hose.

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