Was Obama's Prayer Really Stolen?

In the first place, I didn't call anyone a liar. I only had the information given out on the program, The View. They didn't say who the person was but my instincts said it was a set up for publicity. And, just because the guy said all those things doesn't mean that someone from the Obama team didn't pay him to do so. Also, don't tell me what to write about and what not to write about. I was giving my opinion of what I thought really happened and I'm entitled to think what I wish whether you like it or not. Also, I wasn't patronizing anyone and jocular means humorous so I'm not sure what you are talking about. You need to use a dictionary or thesaurus if you are going to use vocabulary that you don't know anything about.

No I thought it was humorous what do you not understand?? i have thought since this story broke that it was funny and insignificant. I'm sorry if I came across a bit mean but seems like so many people are are so quick to judge. By all means please write what ever you want. With out it I would be bored. Does it seem so odd someone stole his letter?? Not to me. He is running for the strongest political position in the world. I do not think anything he can do is going to be private. Especially at this point in time.

Danimalhite, I was about to post pretty much the same things you wrote, until I read yours. What I don't get is why people ascribe ulterior motives to everything. I've known many people who went to the Wailing Wall and left prayers there. It's what people do there. Nobody needed a press secretary to hire soebody to steal it. The guy who admitted stealing it said he thought it was very special because an American Presidential Candidaste put it there. Of course, now somebody will find an ugly conspiracy promulgated by McCain, and on and on. Maybe the campaigns wouldn't be so ugly if people actually discussed POLITICS!

I am a person with friends serving in Iraq and it is for that reason I support McCain. The strategy Obama supports in Iraq is the EXACT same thing that ended up costing us so many lives in Vietnam. I do not have an issue with Obama's race, despite the negative coverage the world sees on race relations in this country, we have come far from the image portrayed in the world by the media who take isolated examples and tout it as the status quo. Look at our congres, presidential cabinate, large corperations, and law firms and what do you see? High level positions being held by black americans. Not because these people whined about institutinal racism, but because they worked their arses off to getthere like every other person in the same positions. I know this wasn't the general scope of the thread but I felt I had to address this. I also wish to add thatit really doesn't matter to a great many people in this country how much germany loved him, the people of Germany aren't voting for him and people here can't help but think that this whole "tour" of his has doen nothing but prove he can schmooz and spread on the B.S. like every other typical politician.

My first reaction to your comment makes me wonder about your integrity. You obviously don't know the difference between right and wrong. Yes, it is possible, based on your perspective, that someone might have stolen it but my perspective is that Obama is doing anything and everything to get publicity and I think that the piece of paper wouldn't be near as valuable as the publicity he might gain.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is suspicious of this guy. He may be an okay person but the way that he flip-flops back and forth between what he thinks and what he believes makes his ability to lead this country very questionable. I just hope enough people question his ability to lead enough to vote for McCain instead. I'm not an overly big McCain fan but I think he's the better choice of the two we have to choose from.

I agree that it's not at all necessary to write a prayer down and put the paper in a wall to reach God. In fact, from my relationship with God for more than 45 years, I can tell you that unless you are genuinely speaking to Him in faith once you are saved, He doesn't hear it because God doesn't hear prayers of unbelief. His Word says that He responds to faith and His Word prayed to Him. From what I heard of Obama's prayer, it was just a stereotypical group of words. I guess that if I believed God would be paying attention to what I was writing down, I'd want it to be more sincere and personal than what I heard on "The View" the other day. It just seemed so fake and like something he wanted to have read. That's why I don't buy that the stolen paper wasn't a set up of sorts.