October 12, 2008
McCain Rebukes Religious Speaker's Invocation
Posted by BLAKE DVORAK
At a McCain rally in Davenport, IA, yesterday, while delivering the invocation, Arnold Conrad, a minister, said:
There are millions of people around this world praying to their god -- whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah -- that
wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they're going to think that their God is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and election day.
Which is the kind of thing that McCain, already trying to clamp down criticism of Obama at his rallies, doesn't need. The campaign released this statement, distancing itself from Conrad's comments:
more:http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/10/mccain_rebukes_religious_speak.html
Will we see one on Jeff Frederick today?