Update Aug. 1: ticket information will be out Aug. 4.
Update: Rick Warren's intention to bring out the best of both candidates. Warren says he doesn't endorse.
As you may or may not know, Rick Warren advised Bush, spiritually speaking. But we won't hold that against him.Warren wrote the best selling book, the Purpose Driven Life. Warren's Saddleback Church is in big republican territory in California, so Obama might not have the friendliest of crowds.
NYT: It has taken a man of God, perhaps, to do what nobody else has been able to do since the general election season began: Get Barack Obama and John McCain together on the same stage before their party conventions later this summer.
The Rev. Rick Warren has persuaded the candidates to attend a forum at his Saddleback Church, in Lake Forest, Calif., on Aug. 16. In an interview, Mr. Warren said over the weekend that the presidential candidates would appear together for a moment but that he would interview them in succession at his megachurch.
