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Warren Addenda
Lawyers, Guns and Money — In addition to Rob's links below, make sure to read Sarah Posner. And as Steve Benen notes, even defenses based on crude political criteria are exceedingly unconvincing. It's unlikely in the extreme that Rick Warren's "purely symbolic" selection is going to attract any non-negligible number of reactionary evangelical voters, while slapping major Democratic constiuencies in the face surely carries its own risks. And worse, it elevates Warren's stature further, giving him "bipartsian" media credibility when he inevitably attacks any decent part of Obama's ...

Adele Stan: Transcendental Invocation:Surprise Me, Rick Warren!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Count me among those who felt stung, yea, smitten, by the announcement. As you've no doubt heard countless times by now, Warren didn't simply support Proposition 8, the ballot measure that overturned same-sex marriage in California -- he grouped same-sex unions in a category of unacceptable institutions that includes polygamy and marriage between an adult and a child. Perhaps you heard, as well, that Warren compares abortion to the Holocaust, and describes pro-choice advocates as "Holocaust deniers." For many of us who supported Obama vociferously during the campaign, this ...