"Many believe the Obama campaign was too naive about Warren's political agenda heading into the Saddleback Forum. "They hadn't done their research on Warren," says one progressive religious figure. "Obama wasn't prepared for the Saddleback thing at all, and Warren bushwhacked him." Likewise, Obama's senior staff was not aware of Warren's most recent controversial comments — including his comparison of homosexuality to incest and his belief that the President of Iran should be assasinated — when they signed off on his selection for the Inauguration.
When Obama asked Warren to take part in the inauguration, he thought he was getting Pastor Rick. And on Tuesday Warren will undoubtedly deliver a blandly optimistic — if explicitly Christian — prayer of the sort that has made him popular with the tens of millions of Americans who have purchased his books. But the uproar that has accompanied his selection suggests Obama would do well to get to know the other Rick Warren as well, particularly if his administration intends to continue an ongoing relationship with the pastor." —Amy Sullivan, in a feature for TIME titled, "Inaugural Pastor: The Two Faces of Rick Warren"
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Uh Oh.
This won't please the Queerty commenters. This woman must be mad! She's insinuating that the would be President of the most powerful nation did not ACTUALLY go on the internet and reasearch about Warren. She is making wild and unrealistic claims that he might have, gulp, a team that may have fucked up in THEIR research of the Warren.
Mmmm, Obama have a team? A team that would be doing the research and all that quantiative research instead of him the would be Pres of the US of fucking A?
Wow.
From Proceed At Your Own Risk blog 1/19/2009:
UNDER THE GAZE OF LINCOLN
UPDATE: Under the gaze of Lincoln, Obama's first big lie.
The news is now breaking that Gene Robinson's prayer was deliberately cut from the Inauguration Concert by the Obama Transition Team. The sound system was also shut down during the Bishop's prayer so that the National Mall crowd would not be able to hear the gay clergyman's words.
Shame on Barack Obama.
I heard Robinson's speech on a private feed, unaware at the time that HBO was censoring the prayer so as not to offend America.
Shame on Barack Obama.
Obama spit in my face, after getting my money and campaign work. Never again, Barry!
Oh poor Innocent Obama fooled again! God this woman is a moron. Obama knew just what he was doing. The guys just a tool.