McCain Meets with 89 Year Old Billy Graham ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

How is this relevant to the modern world?




http: //news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080629/480/87c049cbd190491aa9bf199451d70c0c/

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., center, poses for photo with Christian
Evangelist Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham at the Graham family mountain top retreat in
Montreat , N.C., Sunday, June 29, 2008.

McCain gets praise, not backing, from Grahams

Senator John McCain, who has had trouble courting faith-based voters, went to the mountaintop on Sunday — Billy Graham's Blue Ridge mountaintop retreat in western North Carolina, that is — and met with the evangelist and his son, the Reverend Franklin Graham, for a private, 45-minute conversation.

There were no endorsements after the meeting at the rustic retreat, called Little Piney Cove, and both sides portrayed it as nonpolitical — just a chance to talk over old times and pray for God's blessing on the presidential election and the candidates. But afterward, there were encomiums all around.

[JI7]

1. hahhahahah

[tularetom]

2. Where do we go to vomit?

Why do politicians, even Dems, feel they have to make a pilgrimage to kiss the ring of this pathetic old charlatan?

I can imagine the prayer for God's blessing on Sen. Obama.

[Stephanie]

3. I know he wishes Bob Hope could open for him at the convention.

[tularetom]

4. LOL - to the unforgettable song stylings of Lawrence Welk

[DesertRat]

9. Billy Graham is a Democrat

Couric: I read, though, that you're a Democrat. Is that true?

Graham: Yes. I am.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8326362/

[Mr. Blonde]

15. Overall

Billy Graham seems to be a pretty decent person. What exactly are your specific beefs with him?

Sure he has had some missteps, but I would say nothing any worse than others who have been in public for so long.

[grytpype]

5. Billy Graham is still alive?

Holy shiet!

[musicblind]

6. I actually listened to him speak once when I was a child.

[Thrill]

7. It helps here in NC. Just being seen with them. I would like to see Obama meet with them as well

[Stephanie]

8. Seriously?

I'm really surprised to hear that. To my mind he's a relic of another era. The Nixon era.

[JI7]

10. i think all of these evangelist types are losing influence

they will never be influential as they had been in the past , at least not at the national level.

[Eric Condon]

11. To me, Billy Graham is best summed up by this video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=a6iAaxOAHCM

[FunkyLeprechaun]

12. I've met him once

I was at the hotel I used to meet up with friends for a drink on Fridays. One of the people I know has treated a couple of famous patients and one was Billy himself.

Billy came out of the elevator and saw my friend and talked to him. I didn't even know it was him at the time until he left (he was so unassuming, wearing a Vikings cap and just chit chatting to us, not even trying to convert us).

I don't know what was weirder, Billy Graham wearing a Vikings cap or Elizabeth Dole asking me where the elevator was.

[Norrin Radd]

13. Wow. The early 1980's wants its furniture back, and the late

1980's wants its white walls and beige carpeting.

[Eurobabe]

14. Ahh, he makes McCain look younger?

:shrug: