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If They IM'd: Barack Obama and Rick Warren
You hate gay people, and I desperately need to be liked! Everyone wins! Put 'er there!
Let the pandering begin! Barack Obama has selected evangelical Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Warren, perhaps better known as the bestselling author of "The Purpose Driven Life," is an outspoken opponent of both gay marriage and abortion, and activists for both causes are outraged. Sure, Warren believes in progressive causes like confronting climate change, AIDS and poverty, but can Obama's strategy be anything more than a transparent sucking up to the conservative Christian right?
Has the selling out already begun? Or was Obama conflicted about the choice? We may never know, but we can certainly speculate what might have gone down had the two men chatted via IM.
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posted 3:01 pm on 12/19/2008
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posted 1:17 pm on 12/19/2008
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Ok. He's allowed a few gaffs here and there and thank goodness this is not a permanent appointee but I think it is a mistake and puts a pall on the occasion.
posted 12:41 am on 12/19/2008
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posted 2:37 pm on 12/18/2008
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