Most excellent comment at Huffington Post about Obama and Warren

[IndianaGreen]

Comment by BalancedEgg:

This is excellent. By picking Warren and thereby shining the bright lights of the media on Mr. Warren and his nonsensical and arrogant presumption of superiority to gay people, Mr. Obama has brought about the perfect storm. Regardless of the drama of this moment, the potential for a GLBT boycott of the Inaugural festival and the fuel on the fire of the Prop 8 debacle, the genie is out of the bottle. This decision, though wrapped in the swaddling of "inclusion", "agreeing to disagree", "coming to the table" and all the other political cliches, has contained within it, the subsequent recognition that Mr. Obama can only intellectualize discrimination but has not exactly lived it. Too young to be scarred by Jim Crowe, too smart to be resigned to the ghetto, too Kenyan to be of slave lineage and too white to fall through the cracks, Mr. Obama has no real life understanding of the gay American experience of full throttle societal rejection. The question now is, after this kind of fire storm, is he prepared to look at his own homosuperiority to which Mr. Warren is merely the mirror.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/18/rick-warren-i-dont-hate-g_n_152157.html

[bluedawg12]

1. One of the problems with a very smart guy and a very dumb guy at the helm

is that they are both capable of digging their heels in, on a different basis, but still be immune to criticism.

Like I said earlier:

The last guy listened to no one and did exactly as he wanted to do.

The next guy will listen to everyone and do exactly as he wants to do.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, just saying, be wary of power. Never let up, speak truth to power.