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McCain Right USA Based on Judeo-Christian Principles?
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When Senators Barack Obama and John McCain both appeared at the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency with Pastor Rick Warren last weekend, McCain used a myth about the supposed Judeo-Christian origin of American principles to pander to the evangelical Christian audience in a way I contrast with an Obama appearance at another Baptist church earlier this year.
You can see the full section of the Saddleback Civil Forum interview of John McCain from which I took a short clip for this video from the CNN website at http://www.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=dom&vid=/video/politics/2008/08/17/mccain.forum.pt2.saddleback
I used Marion Doss's picture of Thomas Jefferson in my video under a creative commons license as described on his Flickr page at http://flickr.com/photos/ooocha/2574662602/sizes/o/
You can find the rest of Thomas Jefferson's 1824 letter to Major John Cartwright, among other places, at http://books.google.com/books?id=z-pv0i1qHIYC&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=%22The+proof+of+the+contrary+which+you+have+adduced+is+incontrovertible+to+wit+that+the+common+law+existed+while+the+Anglo+Saxons+were+yet+Pagans+at+a+time+when+they+had+never+heard+the+name+of+Christ+pronounced+or+knew+that+such+a+character+had+ever+existed%22&source=web&ots=Z--uC7bVzU&sig=iaudH1yrXhacUSDYIl2JOSdI8AQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
You can find the prepared text of Barack Obama's January 20, 2008 speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church from which I took a screen capture at http://www.barackobama.com/2008/01/20/remarks_of_senator_barack_obam_40.php
And, finally, you can find the full video of Barack Obama's January 20, 2008 speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church from which I took a short clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0x_TpDris
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