Not Trying to Excuse Him, Just Explain Him, With Warren Obama is Laying to Rest the Muslim Rumors...

[McCamy Taylor]

It just occurred to me that compared to most official political affairs in recent years (particularly those of Democrats) this is a 100% Jesus Christ BLOW OUT extravaganza!!!. Today, I was thinking why isn't there going to be a Buddhist? . And I read this article bemoaning the fact that a Christian (Robinson) will give the interfaith blessing for the Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Misc.

http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2009/01/17/obama-inauguration-an-interfaith-invocation-to-answer-the-critics/

Not being a Christian myself, all this worship of Jesus seems pretty old fashioned. But when you are a politician whose biggest weakness is the opposition's ability to link you to Terra-ists through the faith of your kinfolk in Africa, maybe it is natural for your political advisers to tell you to paint the halls Christian when you throw a big media party. And not just run of the mill Christian. In your face Christian.

Sure, I would love to see the president-elect give some free ad time to my religion. But if he thinks he has to do this to get the public support he needs to overcome GOP filibusters of health care reform, I am willing to let him try and see how it works. His strategy has been pretty sound so far. He had better find some way to reconcile all the people who are angry about Warren, though, because they are not just going to forget about it.

[gcomeau]

1. Speakiong as someone who thought the Warren pick was a tactically sound decision...

...no, I'm quite confident that is not what he's doing with it. First, because it doesn't really do the job. Anyone inclined to believe those stupid rumors in the first place isn't going to suddenly dismiss them just because of who he picked for an invocation. Second, because it's pointless. Those rumors mattered during the election... a little bit... but that's done. Those fringe whackjob idiots who were spreading this kind of thing have no real ability to seriously influence the course of events any more. And by the time the next election rolls around we're dealing with a whole different equation... instead of the new black guy with the foreign sounding name that you can get people doubting on all kinds of grounds by just planting that little seed of rumor and doubt and letting it fester... it's the incumbent President of the United States. You can't pull that kind of over the top ridiculous crap with a known entity of that magnitude. The "he's secretly a muslim" tactic died the night of the election. It's done. It's been consigned to the dark corners of internet conspiracy forums never to return to the spotlight and there's no way Obama doesn't realize it.

[leftstreet]

2. You can't be serious

The 'OMG Obama's a Muslin!' crowd had no impact on the election

[Sebastian Doyle]

3. Not doing much for the homophobe rumors though.

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[Ian David]

4. It would be easier to go on Saturday Night Live and eat barbecue right off a pig on a spit. n/t