Via Melissa Rogers, Mike Huckabee is slated to speak at Cornell University next week on "In God We Trust: The Role of Faith in Politics." Sounds pretty pabulum, but his hometown newspaper interprets the speech as an opportunity to make big announcement about his next political move. The former candidate's web site has been replaced with a countdown clock until the Cornell event, leading to speculation that the speech will be something huge.
Meanwhile, David Brody is reporting at his Christian Broadcasting Network blog that John McCain, inexplicably unaware that his endorsement of John Hagee might have troubled some religious folk, is looking to put together a "Committee of 50" religious leaders (old and new guard, according to Brody) to help him reach out to religious voters he's apparently missing by declining an invitation to Sunday's Compassion Forum (sponsored by Faith in Public Life) and continually recycling the story of his Vietnam guard who drew a cross in the sand with his toe to show solidarity with his prisoner. Without McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will have to duke it out for the most compassionate presidential candidate award.
--Sarah Posner
