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Photo: AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
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Late last night I ended up watching the interview that Rick Warren hosted with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (watch it here<\/a>). I was deeply impressed. When I was in Guatemala I didn’t have much of an opportunity to see video of Obama and I was limited to distilled\u00a0sound bytes\u00a0in news articles. After hearing this guy give frank and heartfelt answers to questions on leadership, morality, America and government, I’m sold. The man has principles! I didn’t watch the interview with McCain for two reasons, it was 2 AM and I’m sure I would have disagreed with him (especially on the war issue).<\/p>\n Photo: AFP\/Getty Images Late last night I ended up watching the interview that Rick Warren hosted with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (watch it here). I was deeply impressed. When I was in Guatemala I didn’t have much of an opportunity to see video of Obama and I was limited to distilled\u00a0sound bytes\u00a0in news articles. … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-374","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-politics","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\nWhat was most striking to me is that nothing he said caused me to disagree with him – which leads me to think I must have thought out these issues as much as him – which leads me to think that perhaps I should get into politics.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI really think the tempest of fear that is creeping up against him because his father was a Muslim and his mother an Atheist is ridiculous. For one, the fearful are Christians who believe in the transforming power of Jesus blood – unless of course your parents weren’t Christian… Hmmm.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"