I Really Hope Obama Listens to the Earful We Have Sent Him

I hope he realizes the mistake he made. I'd liked to see him renege on the prayer offer, but with the release of 'talking points', I don't see that happening.

So, we are likely stuck with a bigoted pastor to END chimpy's administration. We will have the rest of the gala events, then Obama's speech. We will then usher in the start of Obama's Administration with a Progressive Pastor, the start of a new way.

This may be the symbolism he seeks. I think it is ill advised, a disgusting choice, and a mistake.

I hope that Obame takes the opportunity of the stage and his first speech as President of the United States to speak passionately on GLBT Rights. I hope that he realizes how important this is and that we are largely dependent on a empathetic administration to advance rights for everyone. It will be up to him to tell the country how wrong bigot warren's views are. And, it would be effective for Obama to say it while warren is still on stage.

That is my hope.

The noisy, tiny minority represented here at DU by all the pant-shitting over absolutely is being lost on everyone.

DU has become the tree falling in the forest that nobody hears.

that is upset over this.

and such outrage--while exhilarating and cathartic for those expressing it--is tiresome and predictable for those at a distance. That does not mean that it is invalid, of course. It just means it won't get any further than any other netroots outrage does.

search "Obama gay" today. The stories are piling up. It's been in the corporate media and Amy covered it, too.

We didn't have to, and we do not have to in 2012 if he's going to appoint those who do not and never would vote for him.

both Kucinich and Edwards dropped out. By that point, he was already cruising.

I can't believe he did what he did.

I was never for Kucinich because he doesn't have a chance.

However, if this is the way it's going to be with Obama, putting in REPUBLICANS, I plan to throw myself into campaigning for his Democratic opponent in 2012.

any part of it. I know you relish the idea of every single minority being rendered irrelevant, you are an extremely hateful person, and I'm sure you relish being part of the Mainstream.

GOP and DLC.

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Symbolism? The symbolism of the Warren Invocation is that he meant what he said when he stated, plainly, that he was opposed to gay marriage.

That's the symbolism.

It was a disgusting and insulting choice. I have contacted Obama's team on it. And, will wait to see what positions and policies he takes on as the President.

and weight their voices accordingly.

At any rate, I hope he mentions GLBT Rights in his speech.

Unfortunately, they're being done no favors by the outrage addicts. Their voices will, as always, be lost in the din of the reflexive opposition yelling "I AM BACKSTABBED BY THE DINO DLC CENTRIST YET AGAIN NOT CHANGE I CAN BELIEVE IN." The more uniformly and homogeneously noisy the netroots gets, the more irrelevant it becomes, and the less useful it becomes as a tool for the genuinely concerned to push for their issues.

And they should be in the closet and not out making spectacles of themselves, right?

Nothing wrong with making a spectacle every single day. Now, thinking that your spectacles are helping your cause, on the other hand...

Who knew?

People For the American Way President Kathryn Kolbert responded today to the news that Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will deliver the invocation at the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama:

It is a grave disappointment to learn that pastor Rick Warren will give the invocation at the inauguration of Barack Obama.

Pastor Warren, while enjoying a reputation as a moderate based on his affable personality and his church's engagement on issues like AIDS in Africa, has said that the real difference between James Dobson and himself is one of tone rather than substance. He has recently compared marriage by loving and committed same-sex couples to incest and pedophilia. He has repeated the Religious Right's big lie that supporters of equality for gay Americans are out to silence pastors. He has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists. He is adamantly opposed to women having a legal right to choose an abortion.

I'm sure that Warren's supporters will portray his selection as an appeal to unity by a president who is committed to reaching across traditional divides. Others may explain it as a response to Warren inviting then-Senator Obama to speak on AIDS and candidate Obama to appear at a forum, both at his church. But the sad truth is that this decision further elevates someone who has in recent weeks actively promoted legalized discrimination and denigrated the lives and relationships of millions of Americans.

Rick Warren gets plenty of attention through his books and media appearances. He doesn't need or deserve this position of honor. There is no shortage of religious leaders who reflect the values on which President-elect Obama campaigned and who are working to advance the common good.
http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_2008_12_people_for_disappointed_rick_warren

How could he? It would be suicide. The mistake was making the decision at all.

I am trying to look for what good could come from where we are now.

That'd be cool.

Unless Jesus gives him a painful ulcer that sends him to hospital on the day, or uses his magic wrench to ground the guy's plane....or something.

maybe he can get a sick headache.