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Candidates Got Advance Look at Questions
by Outspoken on Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:40 pm
Candidates Got Advance Look at Questions
Spokesman for Minister Says McCain, Obama Were Told of Some Topics
By Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writers
Responding to questions about whether Sen. John McCain had an unfair advantage over Sen. Barack Obama at Saturday's forum on faith at the Saddleback Church in California, a spokesman for the Rev. Rick Warren said both candidates had an advance look at a few questions.
Spokesman A. Larry Ross said the candidates had agreed that McCain would not listen to Obama's interview, which came first by a coin-flip agreement. But Ross said Warren gave them both a sense of what to expect.
Warren provided McCain and Obama with the four subject areas, Ross said -- leadership, stewardship, worldview and international compassion -- and provided them a sense of the themes he would ask about, including topics such as energy and taxes.
He also offered three examples of questions he planned to ask: What is your greatest moral failure? What is America's greatest moral failure? Who are the three people you rely on for wise advice?
"He wanted to give them an idea of where he wanted to go with this," Ross said in an interview.
The interviews were billed as frank conversations to which the candidates were offering off-the-cuff answers. Several times during the broadcast, Warren referenced a "cone of silence" for McCain during Obama's interview.
Ross said the mentions came "with a chuckle" and were intended to reflect the basic agreement that McCain would not listen to Obama answering his questions.
"He said that metaphorically," Ross said. "There was no whirring glass bubble like Maxwell Smart or something like that. He was speaking to the integrity of the arrangement."
Ross said a Saddleback employee disconnected the live feed from the television in the green room, where McCain stayed during most of Obama's interview.
"He literally disabled it. Even if someone tried to turn it on, it wouldn't work," Ross said. He added that he was given assurances by McCain's campaign that the senator from Arizona had not listened to the radio during the drive to the church in Lake Forest, Calif., while Obama was beginning his interview.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081802434.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Spokesman for Minister Says McCain, Obama Were Told of Some Topics
By Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writers
Responding to questions about whether Sen. John McCain had an unfair advantage over Sen. Barack Obama at Saturday's forum on faith at the Saddleback Church in California, a spokesman for the Rev. Rick Warren said both candidates had an advance look at a few questions.
Spokesman A. Larry Ross said the candidates had agreed that McCain would not listen to Obama's interview, which came first by a coin-flip agreement. But Ross said Warren gave them both a sense of what to expect.
Warren provided McCain and Obama with the four subject areas, Ross said -- leadership, stewardship, worldview and international compassion -- and provided them a sense of the themes he would ask about, including topics such as energy and taxes.
He also offered three examples of questions he planned to ask: What is your greatest moral failure? What is America's greatest moral failure? Who are the three people you rely on for wise advice?
"He wanted to give them an idea of where he wanted to go with this," Ross said in an interview.
The interviews were billed as frank conversations to which the candidates were offering off-the-cuff answers. Several times during the broadcast, Warren referenced a "cone of silence" for McCain during Obama's interview.
Ross said the mentions came "with a chuckle" and were intended to reflect the basic agreement that McCain would not listen to Obama answering his questions.
"He said that metaphorically," Ross said. "There was no whirring glass bubble like Maxwell Smart or something like that. He was speaking to the integrity of the arrangement."
Ross said a Saddleback employee disconnected the live feed from the television in the green room, where McCain stayed during most of Obama's interview.
"He literally disabled it. Even if someone tried to turn it on, it wouldn't work," Ross said. He added that he was given assurances by McCain's campaign that the senator from Arizona had not listened to the radio during the drive to the church in Lake Forest, Calif., while Obama was beginning his interview.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081802434.html?wpisrc=newsletter
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