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Anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-assassination pastor to give inaugural invocation.

Pastor Rick Warren will deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20. While he is a recognizable celebrity and best-selling author, Warren also advocates a number of deeply anti-progressive views. He supported California’s anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 and has likened gay marriage to polygamy and incest. He is strongly anti-choice, and has equated abortion to the Holocaust. Warren also supports the assassination of foreign leaders. Appearing on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes on December 3, Warren agreed with Sean Hannity’s assertion that “we need to take him [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] out,” saying that stopping evil “is the legitimate role of government.” He added, “The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers.” Watch it:

On a positive note, Faith In Public Life notes that Rev. Joseph Lowery, a civil rights icon and supporter of same-sex marriage, is giving the benediction at the end of the event.

UpdatePeople For the American Way expresses its disappointment with the Warren selection: "He has repeated the Religious Right's big lie that supporters of equality for gay Americans are out to silence pastors."



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145 Responses to “Anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-assassination pastor to give inaugural invocation.”

  1. Leftside Annie Says:

    Great. Obama's giving a shout-out to the fundies.

    Goody.

    NOT.


  2. nanlichi Says:

    WHY??? Come on Obama. Being inclusive doesn't mean letting the foxes in the henhouse. Show these religious freaks the door.


  3. dbadass Says:

    Who decides this sort of thing? Is this the decision of the president elect?


  4. Zooey Says:

    WTF?? Under what sub-heading of CHANGE does Rick Warren reside?



  5. Zooey Says:

    Why are there invocations and benedictions at any government function? It's not f ucking church!


  6. misshusseinmolly Says:

    Leftside Annie Says
    December 17th, 2008 at 5:46 pm

    Great. Obama’s giving a shout-out to the fundies.
    ___________________________________________________________

    Oh, let's look at this creatively. Warren is giving the invocation at the beginning (while Bush is still technically president), and Lowery is giving the benediction at the end. What better way to symbolize "out with the old, in with the new" -- the very definition of change?


  7. Zooey Says:

    That's an interesting point, Miss Molly. :-)


  8. enough Says:

    Gag, gag, gag. Call me DISAPPOINTED. Can I have my contributions back?


  9. I. B. Leary Says:

    By George! I think she's got it!


  10. fletc3her Says:

    It is unfortunate that Barack Obama and Joe Biden are what I would call bigots-lite with respect to gay marriage. They just don't seem to get that gay people deserve civil rights the same as everyone. They may understand intellectually, but they don't really care deeply enough to participate in the fight. It's really quite sad. However, they are a better choice than the openly bigoted Republican candidates they ran against. His choice of a rabid bigot like Rick Warren for his inauguration means I will not watch what would otherwise be a happy moment.


  11. Zooey Says:

    F uck off, Daryll!


  12. Buckie Boy Says:

    So if Iran thought Sean was "Evil" then they have every right to take him out?

    Just saying.


  13. republicans hate facts Says:

    RaptureReady Says:
    At least he made one correct choice.

    Daryll, if YOU say it's a GOOD CHOICE, EVERYONE can be sure IT'S COMPLETELY WRONG!

    Obama has always been weakest around gay rights, this is no difference. And You Daryll, you're just WEAK, you freaky little p***sy...


  14. katy Says:

    NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    NOT pRICK WARREN!

    too bad... so sad...

    the guy is a charlatan...


  15. Uncle Fester Lurks Says:

    saying that stopping evil “is the legitimate role of government.” He added, “The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers.”
    `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
    Gee Ricky....what if the rest of the world governments deem us as evildoers? Are you okay with the deaths of thousands of innocent American men, women and children all because of the unGodly actions committed by the evildoers within our own government?

    Why Barack Obama wants to have anything to do with this self glorified false prophet is beyond me.


  16. curious Says:

    What a lousy choice. Obama must have let idiot choose a man filled with such hateful rhetoric. Or maybe he was the idiot.

    What a stupid idea.


  17. Buckie Boy Says:

    RupturedRectum - How's that magical invisible faerie in your head doing, still predicting a Phuckabee win for president...???

    Your god is made up by ancient goat herders, you are a fool, so go back to your flogging closet and whip the gay out for a couple of hours.


  18. JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin Says:

    Warren may not come across as big of an a**hole as Falwell did, but that doesn't make Warren's ideas any less repugnant.

    The President-Elect should know better.


  19. Uncle Fester Lurks Says:

    RaptureReady are you still here? I thought you were raptured up to meet the Anti-Christ. You know the guy who will fool millions of Christians who will blindly flock to him once he proclaims himself as Jesus Christ, much in the same way you morons blindly flocked to born again (cough, cough) George W. Bush and supported him while he systematically destroyed our economy, shredded the constitution, lied us into war and used the Lords name in vain to defend his sinful, murderous actions.


  20. Keltoi at Night Says:

    Weird. Missmolly puts the best possible progressive spin on it, but this still just seems....inexplicable. I wonder what Rev. Wright will say about this? Could this in anyway be intended as a slap? Who does make this choice? Very strange.


  21. APEC not OPEC Says:

    dbadass Says:

    Who decides this sort of thing? Is this the decision of the president elect?

    Diane Feinstein? She is the Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committe on Inaugural Ceremonies. I hope Obama didn't pick Warren. Didn't he just give Bush the "First International Award of Peace"? Warren is a fraud.


  22. spencers mom Says:

    What a major disappointment.

    Um, note to Team Obama: You WON the election, you can stop pandering now!

    PEACE


  23. katy Says:

    ok, molly... maybe...

    you ARE a better person than i am...

    hope you're correct also!


  24. DNFP Says:

    How utterly disappointing Mr. Obama.

    This is an incredibly stupid move.

    What will follow, a line dance with the KKK?

    Sitting between Rove and Cheney for a quick "ski-poling"?

    What's next?

    I guess this only goes to enforce the notion that blacks don't view the gay "plight" with ANY empathy whatsoever.

    Shame, shame...


  25. stateofthedivision Says:

    Why couldn't he find a UCC minister?

    God is still speaking
    All are welcome here

    Ken Salazar wore his faith badge in his few words regarding his Interior Dept. appointment.

    I guess Obama's UCC ties weren't much after all. What will Bill Moyers, fellow UCC'er, say?


  26. katy Says:

    rachel, on AirAmericaRadio, just now, brought up the national day of works (?) that obama has called for, on jan.19 - MLK day...

    the news account she read stataed that groups involved will be, such as "move-on from the left and focus on the family from the right" (paraphrased)

    FOCUS is the group who prayed that it RAIN on obama's nomination at the democratic convention.

    she said "just don't invite those people"...

    i agree.

    c'mon, barack. they will just stab you in the back first chance.

    it's time to quit coddling. they've helped to destroy this country.

    ENOUGH!


  27. cd Says:

    Time to face the facts.

    Obama is a Christian.


  28. DavidHart Says:

    Write the transition team at http://change.gov/page/content/contact/

    It's hard to believe that Obama would validate a self-absorbed phony like Warren. I'll have more on the Boiled Frog Blog tomorrow.


  29. EvilPoet Says:

    The more things change, the more they stay the same.


  30. on_the_origin Says:

    i wouldn't call in pandering. o'bama is a confident intellectual, persuasive individual. he's explaining the concept of "what's best for the people" to these religious knucklehead's; it's more about wearing these people down and getting them past the pick and choose aspects of religion.


  31. KevoTron Says:

    I simply cannot see this as some kind of transitional, symbolic gesture. Leaving the Sec Def in place is one thing - that smacks of pragmatism. Obama and Warren have been close for years. I think that's really unfortunate and indicative of what we can expect for the future of civil rights for the LGBT community. I am deeply saddened by this as I supported the "O" man from the beginning and have fought tooth and nail for my rights to marry who I choose. And before trolls jump on me for this comment let me explain that I am BISEXUAL and I will not marry ANYBODY until I am free to marry ANYBODY.


  32. Qbala Says:

    Another example of his "reaching across the isle". Can someone name ONE time bu$h and the neo-pukes showed this at any level?

    I too am disappointed. I am also gravely disappointed in his Interior Secretary choice, and what could be another repuke appointment to transportation sec.


  33. republicans hate facts Says:

    Unfortunately Obama always was a little far to the right for my comfort on social issues. His previous remarks and choices around "choice" and "gay-rights" is just not something I was comfortable with.

    From what I've seen, his "fans" tend to project their own idealism on Obama as a result of his vague flowery rhetoric. Aside from a few key policy issues like climate change and education Obama is too far to the right for my comfort. Even in those areas he has chosen to pick people that have just too much of a "Conservative" view to make me happy...

    At this point he's certainly GOTTA be better than Bush, but Obama's CHANGE is more like Ronald Reagan than Change "I" can believe in... Time will tell! We should have at least 4 years to figure out how much good/bad Obama is capable of...


  34. republicans hate facts Says:

    cd Says:
    Time to face the facts.
    Obama is a Christian.

    No, time to face the facts.

    Obama is BLACK and black people are for the most part CONSERVATIVE except on a few issues... Obama is NO DIFFERENT...

    There's a reason why Prop 8 received the highest percentage of votes from folks like Daryll... If Republicans weren't so racist, most blacks would still be republican just like they were after the civil war...


  35. myroro Says:

    Anyone surprised by this was not paying attention during the campaign before the conventions. Obama has principles he will not betray when it comes to discrimination based on race or gender or religion, but when it comes to discrimination against gays and lesbians, we are all under one big tent and need to learn to just get along. Donnie McClurkin should have told anyone that.
    It will be a cold day in hell before we see ANY pro-gay initiatives or efforts or even nods of the head from Obama or his administration. We will be told that there are just too many other things crowding us out of the way (economy, war), that "everyone" has to be brought on board first (DADT) or that it is simply up to Congress, not the President (DOMA).
    We won't hear anything from this administration about gays and lesbians until our votes are needed again, and since he won't be running in any more Democratic primaries, that will probably be never.


  36. mercury6966 Says:

    Lovely, Anything else you wanna tell us to make our day worse? I'm starting to 2nd think this choice we all made, it's one thing to speak and work with the other side but do we have to let everyone in? This is such a big slap in the face to the people that supported him during the election. I'm pissed!


  37. Game of Life Says:

    Come on now!

    Why give this goof a stage on your historic day?

    Unbelievable.


  38. Game of Life Says:

    misshusseinmolly

    Thanks once again for your level head. I was about to blow a gasket.


  39. Anacher Forester Says:

    If this stands, I will require massive amounts of additional medication. It would be a tremendously disappointing start to Obama's presidency. Other than to drive me further into the arms of Pfizer, Smith-Kline Beecham, Roche, Merck, GlaxoWellcome, Cephalon et al, why? Why?

    -AF
    Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud


  40. corsair Says:

    I didn't vote for Obama because he's a conservative. Everyday, Obama reminds me again why I didn't vote for him or McCain.


  41. Game of Life Says:

    republicans hate facts Says:

    cd Says:
    Time to face the facts.
    Obama is a Christian.

    No, time to face the facts.

    Obama is BLACK and black people are for the most part CONSERVATIVE except on a few issues… Obama is NO DIFFERENT…

    There's a reason why Prop 8 received the highest percentage of votes from folks like Daryll… If Republicans weren't so racist, most blacks would still be republican just like they were after the civil war…

    I don't think you know many African-Americans let alone Black people. I'll school you in for a brief sec.

    Tell me your meaning of "conservative." It's the opposite, they are very progressive, the most progressive against all odds.

    I think the bill was very poorly written. It was one of those round about questions.

    A thought: when million of voters read the props on the election form, they usually read the bolded headings. The officials who drew up the format is well aware of it too. Very few people read the explanation that's under the bolded type.

    You really don't know what the hell you're talking about. But then again you are very lonely with your type of "thinking."

    You just love to waddle in shit.


  42. dbadass Says:

    Something isn't quite right... Where are they???


  43. abarts Says:

    He's a politician. That's what they do.


  44. muzz Says:

    NO FCUKING WAY !


  45. republicans hate facts Says:

    Game of Life Says:
    republicans hate facts Says:
    cd Says:
    Time to face the facts.
    Obama is a Christian.
    No, time to face the facts.
    Obama is BLACK and black people are for the most part CONSERVATIVE except on a few issues… Obama is NO DIFFERENT…
    There’s a reason why Prop 8 received the highest percentage of votes from folks like Daryll… If Republicans weren’t so racist, most blacks would still be republican just like they were after the civil war…

    I don’t think you know many African-Americans let alone Black people. I’ll school you in for a brief sec.

    Really? You got that from reading my post, that I don't KNOW MANY Black people? I CLEARLY know more than YOU DO! I don't need your SCHOOLING, but you clearly NEED MINE!

    Tell me your meaning of “conservative.” It’s the opposite, they are very progressive, the most progressive against all odds.

    Most are against abortions, are highly religious, and are homophobic. That is NOT progressive! Blacks are socially conservative, because the core of black culture is the church - a VERY conservative institution. You OBVIOUSLY haven't been to many black churches if you think they are LIBERAL or PROGRESSIVE!

    I think the bill was very poorly written. It was one of those round about questions.

    MILLIONS were spent on ads, there's a REASON why ~70 percent of African Americans voted for it. Their CHURCHES told them to and they were happy to comply. Blacks are very socially conservative and are extremely homophobic, especially to black GLBT people.

    A thought: when million of voters read the props on the election form, they usually read the bolded headings. The officials who drew up the format is well aware of it too. Very few people read the explanation that’s under the bolded type.

    They why did Blacks vote for it at a much higher percentage than other ethnic groups? Your PREMISE is trashed by REALITY!

    You really don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. But then again you are very lonely with your type of “thinking.”

    ROTFL!!! Yeah, because 70% of Blacks voting for Prop-8 says NOTHING about their SOCIAL CONSERVATISM!

    You just love to waddle in shit.

    The expression is "wallow" in shit. Actually I don't, but when IGNORANT MORONS like you keep flinging, I'm happy to fling it back. That's all folks like YOU understand! The reality is people make excuses for the conservatism of blacks instead of recognizing that the coalition of the Democratic party includes some VERY conservative groups such as the Black block. When that is ignored, we get a prop-8 passing...


  46. wizard2000 Says:

    After eight years of the worst president in American history, a president who claims to be a born-again Christian, even as he's gone on a drunken binge during his sorry time in office, President-elect Barack Obama MUST prove that he is not George W. Bush, nor anything close to George W. Bush, nor a religious, hypocritical flake like George W. Bush...which really makes me wonder why Barack Obama chose this sorry excuse for a human, Rick Warren, to be anywhere close to his historic inauguration.

    Obama's former minister Rev. Wright would have been far more preferable, but in choosing this right-wing nut-case Rick Warren, it now appears that Obama's initial, pre-primary associations with gay-bashing ministers was just put on the back burner through the primaries and until after he won the general election...which makes me wonder what else he is going to reverse himself on once he is sworn in as our 44th president. Will he rehire Monica Goodling to screen people for his Justice Department? I don't know.

    But the idea that Rick Warren was even asked to appear anywhere close to Barack Obama on inauguration day really makes me question the judgment of Obama and his transition team. Can we expect even more questionable judgments? Will Obama just be Bush-lite, pandering to the religious fundamentalist terrorists in our country?

    For instance, will the Obama administration reveal the total number of copycat terrorist mailings that have occurred in America since the first lethal anthrax terrorist mailings happened in late 2001? My estimate places the number at several hundred thousand, with a huge majority of terrorist mailings originating from right-wing "Christian" religious nuts sending non-lethal powder in envelopes to progressive/liberal individuals and organizations over the past seven years.

    Obama's selection of the foul Rick Warren indicates to me that his administration will not do anything that would embarrass (or lead to the arrests) of some of the most crazed religious fundamentalists in our midst.

    I will remember this four years from now when President Barack Obama seeks to be re-elected to a second term. If he's just Bush-lite, and actually tries during his first term to sweep under the rug all the criminal acts committed by Republicans under his predecessor, then I'm certain that there will be a better Democrat from which to choose in 2012.


  47. republicans hate facts Says:

    Game Of Life, do some RESEARCH next time before you open your uneducated TRAP like a typical IGNORANT REPUBLICAN!

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/112807/Blacks-Conservative-Republicans-Some-Moral-Issues.aspx

    Ignorance is DANGEROUS and you are very DANGEROUS on this issue. The SH*T we ALL have to wallow in is the IGNORANCE OF TOO MANY including PEOPLE LIKE YOU that are willing to LASH OUT when the TRUTH IS SPOKEN!


  48. Brain From Planet Arous Says:

    The same sort of "Change" like the Obama economic and defense teams.


  49. Tim Vaculik Says:

    Keltoi at Night,

    This is not inexplicable to those of us who knew what Obama was all about way, way before anyone else.

    You folks are just Slooooowww on the uptake!

    Hahahahahahaha


  50. Tim Vaculik Says:

    wizard,

    Told ya so!

    Hahahahahahahahahahaha


  51. Tim Vaculik Says:

    CHANGE! No we didn't!!! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha


  52. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim, your medication has worn off again! Go take your meds, you're sounding as stupid and ignorant as always...

    Oh, and YOU are just as wrong about WHO Obama is as those that thought he was GOD. In fact you're MORE WRONG because they ignored SOME of his flaws, whereas you ignore ALL OF REALITY! IGNORANT TARD!


  53. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    CHANGE! No we didn’t!!! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

    You're a CONSERVATIVE the only change you know, is when the nurse changes your diaper - dum bass!


  54. on_the_origin Says:

    people, people please. calm yourselves. obama is the same man he was was two months ago. it clear obama knows warren is WAY outta line when it comes to social issues, that was reinforced by the saddleback forum. the thing is, you are reacting parallel the way religious knuckleheads do to you. this guy will draw a huge christian audience to listen to obama give a speech about tolerance and uniting and progress. do you think all is lost with the knuckleheads?


  55. Brain From Planet Arous Says:

    misshusseinmolly Says:

    Oh, let’s look at this creatively. Warren is giving the invocation at the beginning (while Bush is still technically president), and Lowery is giving the benediction at the end. What better way to symbolize “out with the old, in with the new” — the very definition of change?

    Novel way of looking at one more of Obama's Conservative, Pro-Wall Street, Pro-Military, and Pro-Surveillance picks, but this is his Inauguration with a beginning and an end. IT is seen as a complete "Act", because that is what it is.

    So now it is OK to criticize Obama? In the last month I have been called Nazi, Fascist, Right-Winger, and worse because
    I was critical of Obama while the high from the election was still in effect. Both parties are in on the looting and scamming of the American public. The difference is that Republicans are 99% corrupt while Democrats are 70% corrupt.
    Maybe we could have a small coal-burning heater on stage, and then replace it at the end with an ethanol heater. Both are spewing forth high CO2 and hydrocarbons.


  56. Tim Vaculik Says:

    I am LOVING every minute of this because I know this is just the beginning!

    You folks will be FROTHING at the mouth within the first 100 days of the new administration!

    Welcome to the REAL world, chumps! Hahahahahahahahahahaha


  57. dbadass Says:

    Hi Tim Vaculik


  58. on_the_origin Says:

    way to let a republican squeeze in a misinformed "i told you so"


  59. Tim Vaculik Says:

    rhf,

    Nice try, but a really pathetic comeback. Just admit it.

    I knew more about Obama months and months ago than you probably EVER will. Why? Because you don't seem capable of an open-minded examination of REALITY.


  60. Tim Vaculik Says:

    It's gonna be so much FUN watching all the rationalization that's about to ERUPT from the left! Hahahahahahahahaha


  61. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    I am LOVING every minute of this because I know this is just the beginning!
    You folks will be FROTHING at the mouth within the first 100 days of the new administration!
    Welcome to the REAL world, chumps! Hahahahahahahahahahaha

    ROTFL!!! As opposed to YOU who is ALWAYS FROTHING AT THE MOUTH?

    We're USED to the real world, you live in the world where you fear terrorists are going to bomb your local Walmart! ROTFL, advice from you is about as useful as a second assh*le!


  62. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    rhf,
    Nice try, but a really pathetic comeback. Just admit it.
    I knew more about Obama months and months ago than you probably EVER will. Why? Because you don’t seem capable of an open-minded examination of REALITY.

    Ah, little boy, you are the EXPERT on PATHETIC aren't you? Just admit it! You KNEW what? That Obama isn't the god of Progressives? I was saying that MONTHS ago, you IGNORANT TARD. He's still LEAPS AND BOUNDS better than GWB and YOU will ever be as a HUMAN BEING or as a LEADER. You're a MORON!


  63. Tim Vaculik Says:

    dbadass,

    I read some more interesting commentary from scientists today concerning the "climate change" hoax. Did you catch it?


  64. Brain From Planet Arous Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:

    I am LOVING every minute of this because I know this is just the beginning!

    I understand your sentiment. Like I said prior, I was called the worse things you could think of when I was predicting this nearly 6 weeks ago. I don't like to gloat, but only to speak in a logical way.

    Hopefully the Progressives will see that they were scammed and tricked. Just look at his votes. They are his ACTIONS, and they speak many decibels above his sweet campaign talk.


  65. on_the_origin Says:

    is it true that tim vaculik and rhf are the same person. i think so


  66. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    It’s gonna be so much FUN watching all the rationalization that’s about to ERUPT from the left! Hahahahahahahahaha

    There's NOTHING to rationalize for me. Obama is a black man, and they're conservative on many social issues. This is exactly what I told folks all along... It'll be the weakest part of his administration most likely...

    You however ARE the WEAKEST LINK! Goodbye TARD!


  67. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    dbadass,
    I read some more interesting commentary from scientists today concerning the “climate change” hoax. Did you catch it?

    If they called it a HOAX, they weren't CLIMATE scientists. The guys who drive the trains AREN'T SCIENTISTS even though they call themselves ENGINEERS - poor ignorant little TARD! When you learn to READ THE BIG WORDS I can point you to resources to help out with that IGNORANCE. Of course the STUPIDITY that PREVENTS YOU FROM COMPREHENDED I can't help you with - blame that ho you call a momma for sleeping with here daddy!


  68. Tim Vaculik Says:

    on_the_origin,

    Well, pardon me while I engage in a little gloating. Actually, I predicted this would happen BEFORE the election results were in, so the situation progressives find themselves in is of their own making.


  69. dbadass Says:

    "is it true that tim vaculik and rhf are the same person. i think so"

    Just don't accuse me of being them...


  70. Brain From Planet Arous Says:

    republicans hate facts Says:

    That Obama isn’t the god of Progressives

    Unfortunately, Air America and other Leftist media was pushing him as a Progressive. He is reversing on most of his campaign promises.

    The only "Change" I see is a better environmental staff.


  71. on_the_origin Says:

    David Plouffe, would repeat mantralike around headquarters. He said his least favorite words in the English language were, "I saw someone on cable say this. . . ."


  72. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    on_the_origin,
    Well, pardon me while I engage in a little gloating. Actually, I predicted this would happen BEFORE the election results were in, so the situation progressives find themselves in is of their own making.

    GLOATING? Over WHAT? What EXACTLY did you predict? That Obama would be a POLITICIAN? DUH! Can you walk and chew bubble gum as well? What a MORON!


  73. dbadass Says:

    Tim:
    No I didn't catch it. I was sort of just doing my own thing today and what with limited media I must have missed it...


  74. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    is it true that tim vaculik and rhf are the same person. i think so

    Oh f**k off... You don't THINK at all if you posted this b**sh*t


  75. Tim Vaculik Says:

    Brain,

    O.K., I feel better. No more gloating. None of us really have the luxury of gloating anyway.

    I have a feeling I may be DEFENDING Obama from the screaming, leftist horde before this is all over!


  76. republicans hate facts Says:

    dbadass Says:
    “is it true that tim vaculik and rhf are the same person. i think so”
    Just don’t accuse me of being them…

    And vice versa... I'm the one that focused on the progressive values and NOT the politician during the primaries. Now you're here complaining about something that if I had complained about in the primaries you would DID say just shut up. I've been consistent - you've been an IDIOT. I'm GLAD someone wouldn't compare me with YOU! As for comparing me to Tim - that's just because I told you the truth and frankly you HATED that. Don't blame you, truth hurts when you're as INSECURE as you are...


  77. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    Brain,
    O.K., I feel better. No more gloating. None of us really have the luxury of gloating anyway.
    I have a feeling I may be DEFENDING Obama from the screaming, leftist horde before this is all over!

    Whereas the PLANET needs DEFENDING form screaming right wing hoards with bombs and airplanes aimed at buildings... Fool.


  78. on_the_origin Says:

    rhf is a closet anti-intellectual.


  79. dbadass Says:

    Huh?


  80. on_the_origin Says:

    brian, i'm with you!! the guy hasn't even been sworn in


  81. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    rhf is a closet anti-intellectual.

    on_the_origin is a closet p**sy who's afraid of the truth...


  82. dbadass Says:

    Complaining about something that somebody complained about at sometime when someone else was complaining about something else while others where complaing about the same yet somehow at sometime different....

    Double Huh!


  83. republicans hate facts Says:

    dbadass Says:
    Complaining about something that somebody complained about at sometime when someone else was complaining about something else while others where complaing about the same yet somehow at sometime different….
    Double Huh!

    Whining, while accusing others of whining... Duh.. Hypocritical little fool...



  84. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    brian, i’m with you!! the guy hasn’t even been sworn in

    And yet his selections which are a reflection of his policies have managed to upset just about everyone...

    As I have said before, at least he isn't Bush! He's not going to be perfect and frankly a part of me has enjoyed doing the "told you so dance". But he's still better on a bad day than the putz we've been stuck with for the last 8 years on a good day! I'll put up with it!


  85. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    dbadass,
    Here’s a linky:
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,468084,00.html

    Fox is not a LINK it's a CESSPOOL. If you even REFERENCE it, you're discounted as a right wing terrorist extremist fool... Not like you weren't already before you IGNORANT TARD!


  86. Tim Vaculik Says:

    dbadass,

    I think RHF must be channeling EugeneDebs! Ha!


  87. dbadass Says:

    Slow down there feller, you're mixing people up again. Do you abuse pills in anyway?


  88. dbadass Says:

    Holy Damn, I suspect the Rapture may be upon us. Watch above as I Recommend Tim Vaculik at 89. Still Mr. Debs can keep track of identities...


  89. on_the_origin Says:

    it's easy for people to nitpick his decisions, but this guy has a vision. this vision takes many working parts. parts from the left and parts from the right. if these parts can work together then......well, maybe i'm just naive


  90. republicans hate facts Says:

    ROTFL Poor Tim, the article quotes a GEOLOGY professor! Because WE ALL KNOW THEY"RE EXPERTS on CLIMATE!!! Geologists usually FREELANCE for OIL COMPANIES - can't imagine what this guy does in HIS FREE TIME!!!

    ROTFL, you're even DUMBER than I BELIEVED POSSIBLE!!!

    Also, there was PLENTY OF TIME for PEER REVIEW for PEER REVIEWED STUDIES! If there are ERRORS there is a METHOD for REPORTING THOSE SCIENTIFICALLY. If he can PROVE his claims, they'll ADJUST the report as SCIENCE does. However when TARDS like this PROFESSOR have made their FALSE CLAIMS they have BEEN DEBUNKED by SCIENCE!!!

    Despite your BELIEF that the world is 8000 years old and FLAT it ISN'T - TARD!! ROTFL!!


  91. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    dbadass,
    I think RHF must be channeling EugeneDebs! Ha!

    You DON'T THINK but you're doing a GOOD JOB of channeling Dild O'Liely...


  92. on_the_origin Says:

    this whole environment of labels is really bad for one's health


  93. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    it’s easy for people to nitpick his decisions, but this guy has a vision. this vision takes many working parts. parts from the left and parts from the right. if these parts can work together then……well, maybe i’m just naive

    He has never ARTICULATED that vision, and that's where the PROBLEM lies! In fact, it's one of the ways he so successfully manipulated people LIKE YOU during the primaries! In Obama's own book he says people have always PROJECTED their own ideas on him - but he never takes responsibility for CREATING that with how he speaks in vague terms. The reality is you don't KNOW what his VISION is - NO ONE DOES! And it's likely going to piss of MANY folks that have projected their own PURE ideas on him...

    That being said, I still believe he's gotta be LOADS better than GWB - the WORST president we've EVER HAD!


  94. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    this whole environment of labels is really bad for one’s health

    The whole IGNORING REALITY is worse for it...


  95. dbadass Says:

    If someone says Hillary Clinton, weird shit might happen...


  96. Linus Says:

    nanlichi Says: WHY??? Come on Obama. Being inclusive doesn’t mean letting the foxes in the henhouse. Show these religious freaks the door.

    Perhaps Obama's just letting the foxes SEE what it's like in the hen-house. To actually get IN, they'll have to shed their foxy ways.


  97. on_the_origin Says:

    rhf, do you watch fox news or something, and i'm not being rude. you seem to have let the media tell his story. i just watched a special on link tv from 07 where he goes to kenya, much better idea of who he is and what he has seen. listen to his speeches, how can you say he is unable to articulate his ideas, i mean come on.


  98. on_the_origin Says:

    not bad linus


  99. republicans hate facts Says:

    dbadass Says:
    If someone says Hillary Clinton, weird shit might happen…

    whine, whine, whine... Grow up p**sy.


  100. republicans hate facts Says:

    Linus Says:
    nanlichi Says: WHY??? Come on Obama. Being inclusive doesn’t mean letting the foxes in the henhouse. Show these religious freaks the door.
    Perhaps Obama’s just letting the foxes SEE what it’s like in the hen-house. To actually get IN, they’ll have to shed their foxy ways.

    Or maybe Obama is a black man who's been attending a radical black church for the last 20 years like MOST black folks do... Sorry, but it's Obama's weakest point as a politician and as a human being.


  101. Tim Vaculik Says:

    dbadass,

    Actually, RHF IS EugeneDebs. I don't know why I didn't see it sooner. It's clear.

    Doesn't matter, but it explains everything...


  102. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    rhf, do you watch fox news or something, and i’m not being rude. you seem to have let the media tell his story. i just watched a special on link tv from 07 where he goes to kenya, much better idea of who he is and what he has seen. listen to his speeches, how can you say he is unable to articulate his ideas, i mean come on.

    wtf is this paragraph? english next time?


  103. jb Says:

    Rick Warren is a big ugly TURD that needs to flushed.


  104. republicans hate facts Says:

    Tim Vaculik Says:
    dbadass,
    Actually, RHF IS EugeneDebs. I don’t know why I didn’t see it sooner. It’s clear.
    Doesn’t matter, but it explains everything…

    In the mind of a weak ill informed troll there can't possibly be more than one person that recognizes what an ignorant TARD he is... I'm sure at least ONE of your ex-wives has informed you of what a LOSER you are... You should have PAID ATTENTION! TARD!


  105. dbadass Says:

    Before the silliness progresses, I wanna know just what it is I am accused of whining about. Actually it doesn't matter it is still equally goofy.


  106. republicans hate facts Says:

    jb Says:
    Rick Warren is a big ugly TURD that needs to flushed.

    Tell Obama, because he just put that TURD on a Silver Platter before the whole country!


  107. republicans hate facts Says:

    dbadass Says:
    Before the silliness progresses, I wanna know just what it is I am accused of whining about. Actually it doesn’t matter it is still equally goofy.

    ROTFL! When AREN'T you WHINING?


  108. dbadass Says:

    When I am goofing on goofballs...


  109. jb Says:

    Why give a platform for the American Ayatola of Homophobia?


  110. barfly Says:

    Linus Says:

    Perhaps Obama’s just letting the foxes SEE what it’s like in the hen-house. To actually get IN, they’ll have to shed their foxy ways.

    Or perhaps he's doing the Clinton Triangulation Softshoe. They can't moan about being shut out when their grinning, presidential-inauguration-stand mugs are plastered all over YouTube.


  111. on_the_origin Says:

    rhf you are embarrassing yourself


  112. on_the_origin Says:

    rhf is karl rove


  113. jb Says:

    Phuck the bigots. They deserve to be shut out.


  114. on_the_origin Says:

    jb i hear yea but you sound a lot like them


  115. jb Says:

    My Grandmother did hard time while dying of cancer because of her 1950's abortion clinic. They give no quarter and they deserve none.


  116. jb Says:

    To make nice with people like Rick Warren is to acquire some of their stench. Is this a way of thanking all the Gay people who supported Obama?


  117. RUCerious Says:

    I've heard of inclusion, but isn't that also a kind of festering sore, or a type of eye infection?


  118. jb Says:

    Infection is the perfect metaphor.


  119. on_the_origin Says:

    well, you're coming from an emotional place, but you gotta figure supporting obama was the right choice.


  120. RUCerious Says:

    The guy who performed our wedding ceremony was a minister in the Church of the Blinding Light.
    Woulda been a better choice...


  121. jb Says:

    There are plenty of very fine religious people who don't happen to be misogynistic, homophobes.


  122. on_the_origin Says:

    there are tons of better choices, that's clear. you are making this a much bigger deal outta this than needed. obama has to know how this guy comes across


  123. pleahy Says:

    Join the Stop Rick Warren Group at My.BarackObama.com

    http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/StopRickWarrensHateNOW


  124. jb Says:

    No doubt, Obama was the only logical choice and I still support him, but not on this choice and not on the FISA bill. I will continue to speak my mind and I hope I can make enough sense that some listen.


  125. on_the_origin Says:

    hell, i recommended rupaul


  126. on_the_origin Says:

    pleahy, you hate warren as much as he hates gay people. what makes your hate better


  127. on_the_origin Says:

    naw jb i agree with you. i just don't feel like listening to the media blow this up for the next week. it's like we're getting right back into the silliness, not you. i'm talkin about the media storyline to come.


  128. jb Says:

    Warren deserves our scorn if not hatred for his influence he has exerted over thousands of people. He has a right to believe whatever he wants, but no right to a public accommodation. To have this bigot involved with the inauguration invites the media sideshow that is so distracting from real issues.


  129. jb Says:

    I guess he could have chose Rev. Wright, if he really wanted to stir up a hornets nest. Though I would have objected less.


  130. stateofthedivision Says:

    The Purpose Driven Inauguration...


  131. AlexLawyer Says:

    Geez, Obama's judgment just keeps getting worse! Couldn't he have invited Jim Wallis, or Michael Lerner, or Frank Griswold? Frankly I'd rather hear from Jeremiah Wright than this clown.


  132. BrianFL Says:

    I have not had time to read through all of the posts above, but in case nobody has mentioned it, Rick Warren was apparently invited by Congress, not President-elect Obama.

    http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/12/liar-rick-warren-to-deliver-invocation.html

    From Salon...

    The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, run by the House and Senate, put together the program for the swearing-in ceremony. Congress, not Obama, invited Warren

    http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

    This is the link to the inaugural committee. The Chairman is Diane Feinstein.

    http://inaugural.senate.gov/cmte/


  133. republicans hate facts Says:

    on_the_origin Says:
    rhf you are embarrassing yourself

    on_the_origin Says:
    rhf is karl rove

    Ah, the PROJECTION, the IRONY, not too swift are you? Maybe the ORIGIN should have been a BETTER SCHOOL for YOU!! ROTFL!!


  134. motorfingaz Says:

    Why didn't Obama select TD Jakes.

    Obama may have to learn the hard way that the conservatives sees Democrats as enemies.


  135. SamWeller Says:

    Some change.


  136. SamWeller Says:

    What's that sound I hear? :

    Obamamania
    comes to a screeching halt.


  137. Jakob Thomas Says:

    I don't understand why everybody is expressing dismay and surprise. Someone even suggested that Obama is somehow not responsible for this decision.

    The fact is that early in the primaries Obama said that he would be continuing and supporting Bush's faith based initiatives. He whent and kowtowed before AIPAC, as all American presidents must. He even stated his opposition to same sex marriage.

    He also said that he does not intend on prosecuting members of the current administration for crimes committed during their appointments.

    The only change that is apparent is that he appears to be a politician who is doing what he said he would.


  138. nellieh Says:

    Warren says," the Bible says governments are to do away with evildoers." (paraphraseing)He doesn't mention when the Bible was written the governments were the "evildoers!"


  139. bitblt Says:

    nellieh Says:

    Warren says,” the Bible says governments are to do away with evildoers.” (paraphraseing)He doesn’t mention when the Bible was written the governments were the “evildoers!”
    December 18th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    Corruption in government, and the resulting lack of justice, is a constant theme in the Bible, especially the Old Testament where every Jewish government - often called authorities - seems to be flawed.

    These are probably the New Testament verses to which Warren alludes:

    Romans13

    Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

    Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
    For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
    for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
    Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.
    For the same reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
    Pay all of them their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

    Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

    The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

    Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.(RSV)

    These verses are not about justifying war, corporate influences on government, or insuring justice. They are about keeping good order in a society - a police function. These verses were written by the rascally Apostle Paul, a Roman citizen and Jew who was a well schooled Pharisee.

    The phrase "...bear the sword..." is commonly used among present day Conservative Christians to mean the power that government wields. Among CCs the desire is that the one who bears the sword be honorable and just.


  140. wolfjon Says:

    let me get this straight, murdering innocent babies, ok. Killing rapists, murderers, and terrorists not ok? This is progress?


  141. cd Says:

    LOL so many of you conned yourself into thinking Obama was a closet athiest and it turns out he's more of a Christian than W.


  142. youtube Says:

    They just don’t seem to get that gay people deserve civil rights the same as everyone.cetOwe no one anything, except to love one anotherBedava mp3 indir; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.sohbet


  143. denizerdogan Says:

    Just like the cold war when everyone who didn’t agree with the U.S. was either a communist or a communist sympathizer. toki This poor crazy guy spent half a decade being tortured because a bunch of stupid politicians araç sorgulama were sure the NVA was in bed with the Russians (minimal help) and/or the Chinese (ancient enemy of the vietnamese). ssk sorgulama You would think he would have learned from others’ mistakes. Guess not. Republicans need an enemy. key ödemeleri This century it apparently will be all Muslims, health all of whom must be alQaeda operatives.



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