I heard on the radio this morning that when asked what they thought America's greatest moral failure is, John McCain and Barack Obama responded at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, during an event where they spoke to the issue of faith.
They should never have been attending such an event as Presidential candidates in the first place. But that's another issue.
Obama said our greatest moral failure is that we fail to follow a passage from the book of Matthew telling us that whatever we do to the least of our fellow men, we do to Jesus. And McCain said that it's that what we do is always a matter of self-interest.
Obama's line sounds like something he threw out to quote scripture - maybe so the God people would get it through their thick skulls that he at least knows some of the Bible, and isn't a Muslim. Or just pandering. Or maybe he really believes that's America's greatest moral failing, which would indicate a moral character of his own not deeply cultivated.
John McCain, I think, hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, his own greatest moral failing (which he claimed to have something to do with his first marriage - his turn to pander) is that he recognizes what a great moral failure is, but that he lives his own life spectacularly failing by the same standard.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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