Warren asks Obama about moral failure

Rick Warren asks Barack Obama about personal moral failure and the country's greatest moral failure. Barack Obama gives a great answer. He talks about his drug use as a youth. He also talks about America not helping the least of us.

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[RisingOmega]

He's posing this question to a Godless, moraless, extreme fascist?? Why bother???

[ecthompson]

A better question to you is - why did you bother type this stuff? It has no hint of truth.

[MILISA99]

Well, what I am seeing is it is difficult to get a straight answer out of Obama. I am not exactly sure what he is saying here. He certainly did not answer the questions he was asked. I am suspicious of people who use so many words to answer what should be a simple question. It's called BS folks and he seems to be full of it. But what do I know, I am just a typical white person.

[ecthompson]

As a typical White person, you know no more nor no less than any other typical American. Obama said exactly what he should have said. The damn thing is complex. Anyone who says that it isn't is a moron.

[JohnTheHater]

Obama is a authority on failure.

[kallefredrikson]

@MILISA99 the response. What I'm getting at here is that we should judge statements based on their content instead of their presentation, a point which I think you so wonderfully ironically just proved for me by attacking my grammar rather than the actual meaning of my reply to your post. Whilst i agree that grammar can help determine the meaning of a statement, very rarely is capitalisation an issue in that respect. better luck next time...

[kallefredrikson]

@MILISA99 My dear, dear MILISA, I'm sorry to say but you completely missed my the point of my comment. I wasn't criticising your vocabulary as such; it wasn't an ad hominem attack! Rather, i was criticising the way you judged Obama's response based on how wordy it was as opposed to its content. The jibe about your vocabulary came merely from the assumption on my part that the only reason one would have to mistrust a response like that would have to come from not understanding the meaning of

[MILISA99]

@kallefredrikson I have a problem with people like you. You criticize me and say that my vacabulary isn't developed. Well Mr. Genius, did you miss school on the day they were teaching punctuation and capitalization in the third grade? "I" should be capitalized. A sentence starts with a capital letter. Go study some grammar. Your post is difficult to read because of the grammatical errors contained within it. Duh!

[kallefredrikson]

@MILISA99 quite apart from ect's comment, which i personally think is just as stupid as yours, i find it hard to understand how that isnt a straight answer. here it is, in a diluted form for those whose vocabulary isn't developed enough to get it the first time around: his personal moral failure is that he partied during his teens, the failure of America is it doesn't look after it's poor. The fact that he uses many words to say this is to give nuance to his answer.

[RisingOmega]

@ ecthompson, Because typing is great finger exercise. But if you believe anything Obama has to say then you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you on your scrawny wrinkled ass!

[consular3]

@ecthompson

wow, that wasn't raciest.

[MILISA99]

Maybe he should have included lying as one of his moral failures, as when he lied about what he had heard in Jeremiah Wright's church. Obama claims that in 20 yrs. of attending that church, he never heard Wright make one negative comment against the USA or white people. I find that hard to believe. This is why I did not vote for Obama, I think he lied. I would also thank you not to call me a moron.