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Obama's Goal
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, December 18 2008, 21:48:14 (CET)
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WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday defended his choice of a popular evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, rejecting criticism that it slights gays.

The selection of Pastor Rick Warren brought objections from gay rights advocates, who strongly supported Obama during the election campaign. The advocates are angry over Warren's backing of a California ballot initiative banning gay marriage. That measure was approved by voters last month.

But Obama told reporters in Chicago that America needs to "come together," even when there's disagreement on social issues. "That dialogue is part of what my campaign is all about," he said.

Obama also said he's known to be a "fierce advocate for equality" for gays and lesbians, and will remain so.

This business about wanting to "bring us together" seems to be code for sanctioning the worst of what Bush brought to us. No one suggests that Obama get a minister who'll tell Bush to go to hell....but serious damage has been done to our Constitution by these evangelical sons of bitches...and they need to be repudiated before they're embraced.

Obama will wind up consolidating most of what Bush did while only symbolically opposing the worst of it....which probably was the neo-con game plan all along...like "one step forward and two backward"...it gives the appearance of forward movement or, at the worst, neutrality...but in reality amounts to yet another step backwards.

Also there's the down side of having elected a president who is half-black and half-white; he's going to be awfully concerned and preoccupied by his "place in history".....as the first nominally Black to be elected to this highest office, making him supposedly the most powerful man of earth...he's going to be consumed with the notion that he must not fail...and "failing" could mean standing up for what is right, even if risky...because the neo-cons had no such doubts about ramming gross changes and crimes down our throat..for them, they are the "majority" and "moral" too, so it was business as usual....but their handiwork needs to be undone...and THAT won't be business as usual. Obama knows they're standing there just waiting for him to slip up, which can only mean "doing the right and necessary thing"..like NOT making another Iraq blunder in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Syria and Iran etc.

I'm not so sure that aisde from the feel-good effect which, admittedly Americans desperately needed, that anything healing or effective will come of his tenure...except the same of pleasant "feeling" that got us into this mess in the first place; with Bush playing to our FEELINGS, at on extreme...and now Obama making us FEEL GOOD at the other extreme....while all the time, unbeknownst to us, real and significant change never happens...at least not for the better...not for what those who voted for Obama thought they were getting.....once in office I think he's going to prove to be an arch-conservative but with a nicer coating.

FDR kept America from making radical changes...but he was called a "Revolutionary" by Republicans...as a smoke screen no doubt...so that Americans would think Roosevelt was SO far out there...when he wasn't at all...not at all. he saved capitalism and bankers and financiers....so they could screw us again. Obama will do the same.



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