Posted on 01/02/2009 2:54:36 PM PST by Libloather
BARNEY'S PASTOR BALONEY
Last updated: 2:05 am January 1, 2009
Well, that didn't take long.
Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank hasn't quite broken with Barack Obama, but he criticized the president-elect - and in a way rarely heard from a left-wing Democrat.
Obama, complains Frank, "overestimates his ability to take people, particularly our colleagues on the right, and, sort of, charm them into being nice."
Now, what could have prompted Barney Frank to aim one of his celebrated verbal barbs at Obama?
The issue is the prez-to-be's invitation to evangelical pastor Rick Warren, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.
But where some see in that invite a good-faith effort by Obama to reach out to a community whose members, by and large, did not support his candidacy, many gays - including Frank - discern deliberate insult.
They say they are "offended."
It's hard to see why.
During the campaign, Obama was totally unambiguous when it came to the question of same-sex marriage: He's against it, though he opposes efforts to ban it legally (like the recently passed proposition in California), and favors civil unions.
In fact, nearly two out of three Americans, according to a recent Newsweek poll, oppose same-sex marriage.
**SNIP**
Part of the problem for Obama, of course, is that he's currently without a personal pastor, having deep-sixed his longtime spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Wright, during the campaign.
But the growing flap over Rick Warren suggests that if Obama has "overestimated" anything, it's not his ability to charm the right, but his capacity for keeping in check the legion of whiners on the left.
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It would be interesting to know this diseased homosexual’s IQ.
He has a very filthy mouth...verbally and “orally” speaking.
Liberals are perpetually offended about something and especially liberals of the queer variety.
That being said, I also am hard pressed to decide which of the current “band of thieves” I dislike the most.
So while I pray for the safety of our country, I will watch with amusement as the Dems attack one another. There has to be some bright side in all of this.
Hard to imagine a picture posted here that I find as ugly as the Helen Thomas pic!
Butt! Butt! Blarney! Borat Obama wuvs you!
Frank is a disgrace to Massachusetts and should have been defeated by Earl Henry Sholley in this past election.
Notice that it isn’t his colleagues on the right who are so hateful over this. If the left is so damn nice, why are they having such a problem with Warren giving the prayer. Oh wait, I forgot, you’re only hateful if you disagree with liberal positions. If you disagree with conservative positions, well then you’re just enlightened and intelligent.
Now if he would run a brothel out of his house maybe Obumma could CHARM a few of the Politico's same as Burne did.!
Maybe barbie fwank is pis*ed that obamawama did’nt accept his advances.
I guess Obama didn’t take up Barney’s offer of whatever it is he offers..
Who gives a rats hiney (maybe bawney) about the sniveling bag fastard. Enron was the giant bogeyman ... what Bonnie Fwank and his socialist cohorts did to Fannie May made enron look like Charlie Browns, Lucy’s lemonade stand.
What an ___________ hole.
I’m not really certain what a liberal would do with himself if he wasn’t offended over something or other.
Amen to that, berdie. Libs are never happy, even when they’re in power. Maybe they’ll lay off George Bush for a while and concentrate on one of their own. That would be a relief.
"I remain tight lipped."
Not so tight lipped.
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