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Scarlett Johanson to Replace Warren!
Taylor Marsh —
... I thought the title of this post and the picture would go perfectly together, since I don’t have a laugh track for this beaut from Rick Warren’s main man, Obama: ...
Obama: We have to be able to agree to disagree
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Obama said the following today regarding the brewing Rick Warren controversy: I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and -- well, let me start by talking about my own views. I think it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans. It is something I have been consistent on and something I intend to continue to be consistent on during my presidency. What I've also said is that it is important for America to come together even though we may have disagreements on certain social issues. And I would note ...
Our Bigoted Media-Industrial Complex
Eschaton —
Being anti-gay is perfectly acceptable, and nothing pleases The Villagers more than punching hippies in the face, so it's a two-fer. Greg Sargent: ...
The Point at which I stopped giving Barry O the benefit of the doubt
Angry Bear —
As quoted by Greg Sargent: I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and -- well, let me start by talking about my own views. I think it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans. It is something I have been consistent on and something I intend to continue to be consistent on during my presidency. As Edith Keeler once noted, "A lie is a very poor way to say 'hello.'" The next four years will be an improvement. But, as John Aravosis notes: Great, then where are the racists, Mr. ...
Mysteriouser and Mysteriouser
ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES —
... obey their masters. This Greek word for "obey," huakouo embraces more of the meaning people often mistakenly associate with marital submission. Hupaaakouo means "to obey, to yield to a superior command or force (without necessarily being willing)." The term draws a picture of a soldier saluting his commander, not a wife submitting to her husband! Hubba, hubba! (I have no idea why I wrote that.) Aravosis has more on Obama's reaction and so does Sargent. Who the invocation speaker is might ultimately not matter very much, of course, ...
Perspective- We Ain’t Got It.
Balloon Juice —
Obama’s presser:
I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and—well, let me start by talking about my own views. I think it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans. It is something I have been consistent on and something I intend to continue to be consistent on during my presidency.
What I’ve also said is that it is important for America to come together even though we may have disagreements on certain social issues.
And I would note that a couple of years ago I was invited to ...
Spirit of Fuck You
Shakesville —
Via TPM, at this morning's presser, Obama was asked about extending an invitation to Warren, and here's video of his response (full transcript, including the question and the tail end of his comment, which is missing from TPM's transcript, is below): There's so much wrong with this statement, I hardly know where to begin, but the most obvious problem is that Obama is playing the same game that anti-choicers and homobigots have been playing for decades, which is pretending that both sides of the ...
Progressive Accountability for Democrats
Open Left - Front Page —
... , seem to have shown the ability to make President-elect Obama comment on the actions, but have also resulted in a stock answer of the sort we saw today on Rick Warren: ...
Barack Obama is a major league asshole...
The Reaction —
... Update II [12.18.08]: Obama's defense of his choice of Rick Warren saying, "We're not going to agree on every single issue" misses the point of why people are upset about it. ...
The Smoothness of Obama
The Moderate Voice —
... I like the choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration ceremony. Obama continues to impress me with the way he is navigating uncharted territory. First, he announces he will be sworn into office using his full middle name. Now, he taps an evangelical preacher, who asked him tough questions at Saddleback Church to give the invocation. ...
Last Final Tomorrow
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... To keep up with the theme of the day: Rick Warren is not involved with it in any way. What I don’t get about Obama’s insistence that we must overcome division by legitimizing those who divide us is that there are thousands upon thousands of religious figures who don’t divide the way that Rick Warren does. It’s the wholehearted embrace of the old right-wing complaint that calling out intolerance is the actual intolerant act in motion - Warren’s presence advances no dialogue and brings nobody together, it merely makes Obama look ...
More on Barack Obama, Post-Partisanship and Billy Graham 2.0
Comments from Left Field —
... if a ‘liberal’ politician is to be seen as a consensus-builder. Judging by his latest message to progressives, social conservatives, and the Beltway, Obama seems bound and determined to establish himself as the ultimate ...
Whatever Happened To "Respect Is Earned?"
Open Left - Front Page —
... author of Rapture Ready: Adverntures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture. (h/t Andrew Sullivan by way of Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle). It seems that Warren himself has been none to open to the whole "having disagreements without being disagreeable" thing, as Radosh explains.... Radosh:
Being disagreeable
Barack Obama is defending his invitation to Rick Warren with a plea for postpartisanship.
What I've also said is that it is important for America to come ...
Christophobia??? Wait A Second, Fellah! YOU'RE The Christophobe!
Open Left - Front Page —
... homosexuals:
That's right. Let me repeat that:
And that's just got to scare Pastor Rick, don'tcha think?
You betcha! In fact, it already has.... As I discussed in my diary "Whatever Happened To 'Respect Is Earned?'", last weekend, Dan Radosh wrote:
Being disagreeable
Barack Obama is defending his invitation to Rick Warren with a plea for postpartisanship.
What I've also said is that it is important for America to come ...
