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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (156480)	12/19/2008 7:41:35 PM
From: Asymmetric	4 Recommendations Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 361716

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.