He's done it again.
President Elect Barack Obama has once again shown what this country is going to start looking like during his presidency. By selecting evangelical Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, our soon to be president has shown that we are not all divided and that many of us, regardless of our political stripes, share common beliefs.
While the left squawks (and man oh man are they squawking-hilarious:)) about Warren's anti gay and pro life beliefs, a more reasoned mind can look at Pastor Warren's beliefs and action regarding world poverty and social injustice. He believes, as I do, that it is every Christian's duty to fight against these two things and make whatever sacrifices are possible to end them.
I also think that Pastor Warren really challenged PE Obama's way of thinking on several issues when he was at the Saddleback debate last summer. If you look at PE Obama's life, these are the kind of people that he has surrounded himself with...people with diverse points of view who will take him to the mat and help him learn and grow. I'm sure Mr. Obama, being the reflective man that he is, realized how unimpressive he was in that discussion last summer and felt that Pastor Warren is someone from whom he could learn.
And it is a great move politically. Evangelicals, some of which believed the paranoid and delusional propaganda that has come out about PE Obama over the last 2 years, can now look at him in a different light. Maybe he's not a terrorist-Muslim-communist-pinko-socialist-baby killer-ultra left wing maniac as we have been lead to believe.
As I have said previously and ad naseaum, Barack Obama is going to piss off the left more than he is the right. So far he is right on track to do that.
That's my guy!
3 comments:
Kudos to Obama on the Warren pick. Not all his picks are terrible...some are, some aren't.
So far (and it's hard to admit and it's too soon to say for certain)it's looking like the people that will be most upset w/ him are the hard-core lefties who've been duped. (The hard-core righties will also be upset w/ him but it will be tempered by the fact they weren't duped.)
Oh my God, did I just agree w/ Mark? Wait, let me go back...
I actually find many of the things that Pastor Warren says to be very thoughtful. I don't see him as being as divisive a figure as people on the left do. He's not Jerry Falwell and his heart is definitely in the right place.
i like the warren choice. i agree with mark (& omG, just dave. . .) i thought it was gutsy. i read a wpost op-ed about this, called something like 'obama's inaugural mistake' but the writer (who is gay) said something along the lines of, the choice putting fear in the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transexual community -- and i'm thinking, hey! you can't please all of the people all of the time! when bushie (won't miss a single one of his beyond bad decisions, but he is a character and a good ducker...)did like, a million things that pissed off a hundred million people, that was a classic example, of not pleasing everyone... so, in the scheme of things (but maybe not to non-heterosexuals) this is small fry and i like his principled decisiveness (so far.) joanne
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