Posted on 12/27/2008 6:33:57 PM PST by nobama08
As we saw during primary season, our president-elect is not free of his own brand of hubris and arrogance, and sometimes it comes before a fall: “You’re likable enough, Hillary” was the prelude to his defeat in New Hampshire. He has hit this same note again by assigning the invocation at his inauguration to the Rev. Rick Warren, the Orange County, Calif., megachurch preacher who has likened committed gay relationships to incest, polygamy and “an older guy marrying a child.” Bestowing this honor on Warren was a conscious — and glib — decision by Obama to spend political capital. It was made with the certitude that a leader with a mandate can do no wrong.
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I wonder what the Times had to sell to keep Rich on their payroll. Maybe a few old typewriters?
More brilliance from the NYT’s resident cocktail Frank.
Question for Rich: Could it be that the empty suit is just another pathological liar who will say and do anything to win? Do you still believe anything he says? He has already broken nearly all of his campaign promises. But you don’t care, any changes will not be called broken promises. They will be called pragmatic. Likewise any continuation of Bush policies will be called nuanced. None of you have any intellectual honesty.
These accolades to Obama for his ‘rightward’ tilt are misguided to the max.
Obama is simply trying to buy himself political innoculation for the soon-to-come HUGE support of near communism policies with his dedication to union-shops on every corner, ACORN offices in every town, AMNESTY, free health care for illegals, etc.
So true. I honestly couldn’t even make myself read through to the end. You are right - no intellecual honesty. The NYT deserves to die.
Do a Google Images search on “gay pride” (turn Safe Search off if you are braver than me) and ask yourself, “Would you trust children with these people even if they were heterosexual?” Their image problem is as much their own fault as anything else.
I couldn’t finish it either.
the Rev. Rick Warren, the Orange County, Calif., megachurch preacher who has likened committed gay relationships to incest, polygamy and “an older guy marrying a child.”
No need to attribute this to Mr Warren alone. Until just a few short years ago and most likely to this very day the vast majority of people on the planet would agree with that statement. More to the point until just a decade or so ago sodomy and other homosexual acts were illegal and prosecuted in a vast majority of Nations of the world and still is in mnay.
So trying to hammer one man for a belief shared by several billion is sorta silly.....
Frank, stop whining. I don’t have the least bit of sympathy for you at this point. You and your colleagues did your best to make this clown look like the Messiah, and his opposition look like the Antichrist and the Whore of Babylon. And on this particular subject, you knew, or should have known, better. You now look foolish complaining.
“Bestowing this honor on Warren was a conscious — and glib — decision by Obama to spend political capital.”
The homosexuals have no place to go. So Obama can take them for granted. He’s not spending political capital. He’s accumulating it in the most cynical and calculating way possible. It would take a NYT reporter not to see that.
If we are lucky, it signals that Obama is ready to treat the far left of his party the way W treated conservatives. More likely, it is empty symbolism designed to give him political room with moderate Americans to implement a truly horrendous socialist agenda.
The Gaystapo is exempt from the Left’s notions of “tolerance” and “compassion.” You vill obey zem or you vill be shot vile escaping!
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Frank Rich is NOT likeable enough. If he was on fire, I wouldn’t “make water” on him to put the fire out.
Gays, bis, and trannies and their entourage should stop while they are ahead most of America has voted and a super majority has said enough is enough. They seem to be not listening.
Obama putting Rick Warren up is a message that he isn’t going to make the same mistake Bill Clinton did. It is good to see him throwing the homos under the bus. They never should have held such a prominence in the Democrat party or any party. I imagine he will find a way to make nice after the fact.
Uggghh!
I’m so sick of these homosexuals running our lives.
Personally, I really just don’t care wha they do to each other, but I am so sick of hearing about them all the time, and how they suffer.
I don’t want to have to jump on the radio news dial in my car while my kids are in it, so as to turn it off because they have to broadcast their pornographic lives to everyone with ears.
Go find someplace where people don’t care about how you live ~ there are plenty of those places in the US ~ and leave me and my family the HELL alone!!
“The homosexuals have no place to go. “
Not sure I agree with this. I think it has more to do with the number of homosexuals more than anything else.
Over a quarter of homosexuals voted for McCain in 2008. About a quarter voted for W’s reelection. Many homosexuals are well off financially, so I guess this kind of makes sense. It’ll be interesting to see if Obama’s job here sends anymore of them to the right.
Overall, there are so few homosexuals that they simply don’t have the political clout that racial groups do. I think that’s why Obama isn’t too concerned with losing them. Even if half of them went over to the GOP, his support wouldn’t change by more than a few percentage points. Evangelicals represent a much larger voting bloc, so he’s naturally more concerned with trying to get some of them to support him. It won’t work, but I’m sure that’s what he’s thinking.
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