Maybe it was meant as some kind of repayment for being allowed to appear at conservative megachurch preacher Rick Warren’s Saddleback forum during the presidential campaign. Or maybe it’s because Obama is still trying to market himself to christian conservatives. Or maybe, most scary of all, Obama truly wants to support a torture-supporting, homophobic, publicity-hogging pastor.
Whatever the case, Obama has asked slimball megapreacher Rick Warren to give his invocation during his January 20th innauguration, and I’m fairly certain it’s the last of the three options I listed — mutual respect.
Huffpost summarizes:
The selection may not have been incredibly surprising. Obama and Warren are reportedly close — Obama praised the Megachurch leader in his second book “The Audacity of Hope.” Warren, meanwhile, hosted a values forum between Obama and McCain during the general election. Nevertheless, the announcement is being greeted with deep skepticism in progressive religious and political circles.
It pains me to say that the best case scenario is that it is a publicity stunt designed to bring socially conservative religious zealots into the Democratic fold. The announcement comes at the same time as the transition team’s leak that Obama plans to nominate GOP Rep. Ray Lahood for his Transportation secretary. The two dodges into the conservative fold are a little too coordinated, if you ask me. But even if true, it doesn’t make his pandering to Warren and his zealot audience any easier to stomach.
Merry Christmas, progressives.
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Oh, here we go. Let’s all turn those guns inward, kids; we won, so now it’s time to start scrutinizing every single thing Obama does until we can dismiss him and go back to being powerless.
why did yall talk about bad about obama