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Politics : Sioux Nation
DJT 16.10+8.3%Dec 19 9:30 AM EST
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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (156480)12/19/2008 7:41:35 PM
From: Asymmetric4 Recommendations  Read Replies (5) of 361715
 
Warren Invocation is a Strike at the Heart of Bush's Base.

From a strategic point of view, the choice of Rick Warren
couldn't be a better placed blow aimed at splitting the
evangelical movement...and the evangelical movement is one
of the last bastions of the right-wing Republican base.

While many on the left would rather see Obama consolidate
power within his democratic base as a way of moving the country
back toward liberalism, they fail to see that this move is a
gambit that will pave the way for just that.

The timing of the announcement is itself a thing of beauty as
well, coming so early in his "administration". It's like a
Sun Tzu kind of a thing - with the "enemy" in full retreat
after a disastrous battle, you don't stop your advance and
allow them to regroup. You keep going after them - you
strategically go after the internal divisions they present
before you and you try to drive a deeper wedge into it.

On the other side, Warren is taking a ton of heat from the
right-wing evangelicals for "consorting" with the democratic
"enemy". He has always been an odd ball within their movement.
...and refused to toe the line of the hard-core right-wing
christian fundamentalist movement. Yes - he shares certain
views with them. But he also has major differences with them.

Warren is looking for a way forward as well - a direction that
cannot help but to eventually put him on the path of a major
clash with the hard core right-wing christian movement.
Issues like poverty, education, global warming, etc.
We should be helping him all we can....and Obama sees that.

This is a move that potentially isolates even further the
hard-core extreme right-wing.

With Colin Powell speaking out against Rush Limbaugh, and
now Rick Warren giving the invocation at Obama's inaugural,
the heat is getting turned up within the Republican right big-time.
And that's a good thing.

- A.

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