Obama picks Rick Warren to deliver invocation

[Pliablemoose]

Wow...

 

[DealMonkey]

Looks like Warren is getting some backlash over this decision too:

Pastor says 'God will punish Rick Warren'Wiley Drake criticizes Warren, calls Obama 'evil illegal alien.'

BUENA PARK ? Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake bashed Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren this week, saying "God will punish" Warren for agreeing to give the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration next month.

"I pray He is kind to you in this punishment that is coming," Drake wrote in a widely-released e-mail. In it, the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park pastor criticizes Warren's "recent plan to invoke the presence of almighty God on this evil illegal alien," a reference to Obama.

Drake, who made last November's ballot as a vice-presidential candidate for the American Independent party, is a party to a lawsuit claiming Obama was born outside of the U.S., and is therefore ineligible to serve as president. Obama has a Hawaiian birth certificate, which Hawaiian officials have said is genuine.

Drake said Warren, also a Southern Baptist minister, is "hurting our denomination, and the Lord's work."

He continued: "God will deal with you on this ? God will not wink at this."

Warren did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

"It's an abomination before God and God's going to deal with that," Drake, in an interview, said about Warren's role in the inauguration. "I've gotten several e-mails in response, and overwhelmingly, they have been supportive."

Who shat in Wiley Drake's cheerios? Sheesh, lighten up jackoff. :roll:

 

[DealMonkey]

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[Perknose]

Originally posted by: DealMonkey
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Brilliant and brave move by Obama. It pisses off the extreme ideologues of both sides and smokes them out.

It would be a great, great thing for America if it marginalized them.

This is a signal difference between Bush, who said he was a uniter but was not, and Obama, who is clearly taking politically risky steps in order to try to find, and hold, some sane common ground.

This is job one for a statesman, a true leader. There are no 'real' Americans and false Americans, like that shallow national embarrassment of a twerp Palin tried to tell us, there are only Americans.

Like more than one poster in this thread, you can go back and see that I, too, predicted Obama's mainstream approach.

Impressive in its sanity.

 

[Lemon law]

If Drake had any ability to call forth the wrath of God, it might be worth worrying about. But if God happens to revoke Drake's lease on life by natural causes, it might have certain comic irony.

But the Obama strategy seems to be working as the once solid religious right seems to be fragmenting.

As for Wiley, as far as I can find, he is 63 now, overweight, and when he ran for SBC leadership, he only got like 1% of the vote. He may have a voice, but as far right right minority, he is more comedic than anything to be taken seriously.