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To: SiouxPal who wrote (156401)	12/18/2008 11:16:37 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362297

Invocation Frustration opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com December 18, 2008, 9:55 am By Chris Suellentrop If you had “before the inauguration” in your blog betting pool for the date when Andrew Sullivan would turn on Barack Obama, well, you haven’t won yet, but your chances are looking pretty good. Sullivan is unhappy with Obama’s decision to let Rick Warren give the invocation at his inauguration. “Warren is a man who believes my marriage removes his freedom of speech and cannot say that authorizing torture is a moral failing,” Sullivan writes on his blog for The Atlantic. “Shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now.” At his new blog for The New Republic, Damon Linker – the author of “The Theocons” and a former editor of First Things – says he understands Sullivan’s disappointment but adds that the choice of Warren is “exceedingly shrewd.” Linker writes: Warren is beloved by mainstream evangelicals, who have helped him to sell millions of books extolling a fairly anodyne form of American Protestantism. (Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell he is not.) It is in Obama’s interest (and the Democrats’) to peel as many moderate evangelicals away from the GOP as he can. Giving Warren such a prominent (but purely symbolic) place in the inauguration is a politically cost-free way of furthering this partisan agenda.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (156401)	12/19/2008 1:24:16 AM
From: Rock_nj	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362297

Good. Perhaps Obama can push his agenda through without blockhead Republicans blocking it. Franken will be one more pro-Obama vote in the Senate. All we'll need is someone like Arlen Spector from PA or the two ladies from ME to joing the Dems to pass some important legislation like the massive infrastructure bill. Screw the Republicans, the Democrats are in charge now. Let the Dems correct some major problems.