Posted on 12/23/2008 7:37:15 AM PST by Reaganesque
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) thinks that President-elect Obama picked same-sex marriage opponent Rick Warren to give the inauguration invocation because Obama "overestimates" his ability to unify people.
"Oh, I believe that he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences," said Frank, the first House member to come out of the closet voluntarily.
Frank, on MSNBC on Monday, said that he's delighted Obama was elected and that the country is headed into the "best time" for public policy since the New Deal.
"But my one question is, I think he overestimates his ability to take people, particularly our colleagues on the right, and, sort of, charm them into being nice," Frank said. "I know he talks about being post-partisan. But I've worked, frankly, with Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, the current Republican leadership. The current Republican leadership in the House repudiated George Bush. I don't know why Mr. Obama thinks he's going to have them better than George Bush.
"And so, to be honest, when he talks about being post-partisan, having seen these people and knowing what they would do in that situation, I suffer from post-partisan depression," Frank said jokingly.
Frank and same-sex rights advocates have fiercely criticized Obama for picking Warren, an evangelical pastor who supported a same-sex marriage ban in California. Frank said that Warren's attempts to reach across to the gay and lesbian community and other groups such as Muslims doesn't allay his objection to Warren's featured inaugural role.
"I think Rick Warren's comments, comparing same-sex relationships to incest, is deeply offensive, wildly inaccurate, and very socially disruptive," Frank said. "And I'm glad he is talking to the Muslims. I'm glad everybody's talking to everybody. We're not here talking about not having conversations. We're talking about singling somebody out for a great honor. And I think the president-elect made a serious mistake in doing that."
The other related point here is that this is further proof that tolerance is a one way street as far as Libs are concerned. Everyone has to tolerate them but they don't have to tolerate anyone else.
Barney Frank needs to be in prison for his role in the collapse of the US economy with his subprime loan scams.
Why does my GAYDAR go off when I look at Rick Warren?? That goattee thingy is CREEPY?? And JEANS while you are sermonizing??? I am sure he's a nice guy, but my CREEP METER goes off way too much with him.
They sow the seeds of their own destruction. I give them two years.
Oh, come now! Silly Conservative! Laws are for you and I to obey, not Libs! ;-)
He overestimates a lot. Like all his abilities. He’s the only one who doesn’t know he’s an idiot.
Barney will die in 2009. I heard it predicted by a psychic.
leftest hypocrisy bump for later...........
The lamb will lay down with the lion; the normal will lay down with the Barney... Maybe that IS asking too much.
Is there a more hatefilled person than Bawney Fwank?
Pray for W, America and Our Troops
Hey, Barney! News flash!
Obama Overestimates his abilities in ALL areas!
You’re just now noticing this? What’s up? Have you had your head up your a** for the last year and a half? ... or maybe someone else’s?
My one question for Barney Frank: You are a destructivre force.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-lisping C*cks*cker.)
Amazing how a guy running a homosexual prostitution scheme can be in charge of the US economy...
Did you see any of the floor debate on the auto bailout bill? If this guy is truly representative, then we’re all screwed.
Kakistocracy - government by the most corrupt and inept members of society.
Barney’s last job before being elected to Congress was a Residence Assistant at the dorm he lived in at Harvard trolling the halls for drunk closet cases. Then he got elected where he trolled the halls of Congress for drunk closet cases. Barney is a Professional Homosexual.
BArney kinda has a point. Obama does appear to have grandiose delusions about what he can achieve.
“Barney Frank needs to be in prison for his role in the collapse of the US economy with his subprime loan scams.”
He certainly needs to be punished, but prison for Barney Franks is like a visit to a gay man’s sex club.
Barney’s last job before being elected to Congress was a Residence Assistant at the dorm he lived in at Harvard trolling the halls for drunk closet cases. Then he got elected where he trolled the halls of Congress for drunk closet cases. Barney is a Professional Homosexual.
Mr. Fwank exhibits his own bigotry by not even trying to imagine any effort to TRY to unify this nation by looking at the positions of those who DID NOT vote for Obama.
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