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The Lefties Are Up To Their Eyeballs in Offal-ness Caused by Obama’s Selection of Pastor Rick Warren

By Lena Grove aka nasuS on December 20, 2008 at 10:50 AM in Current Affairs

First things first: Do you happen to know the synonyms for the word “Warren”?

My beloved Roget’s Thesaurus lists these words as substitutes for the word “Warren”:

Sty, Pigsty, Pigpen, Stable, Augean Stables, Dump and hole and shithole , rathole, tenement, slum, rookery, the inner city, the ghetto, the slums, plague spot, pesthole, hovel.

One has to feel pity for the first person who was given the first or last name of “Warren.”

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is in a bit of a tizzy over Obama’s selection of Pastor Rick Sty, Pesthole, Pigpen Shithole Warren to give the inaugural invocation.

No wonder! “Ewe” is the origin of Rachel’s name.

Okay. Enough silliness. Here is Rachel on Friday night:


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There’s more from the John Aravosis, Andrew Sullivan et al. consortium of high-minded liberals who are sty-mied by Obama’s choice:

John Aravosis of AMERICAblog News remains angered, and is busily RESEARCHING every nook and cranny (er, “warren”) of the Saddleback Web site: “Rick Warren explicitly bans “unrepentant” gays from membership in his church.”

But Andrew Sullivan, his mind long addled by self-denial and astonishing leaps of rationalizations instead is now saying:

Dish readers will know my own conflicted feelings about the selection of Rick Warren for the Inaugural Invocation. But feelings must at some point cede to reason. And I sense an understandable but, the more I think about it, misjudged response on the part of my fellow gays and lesbians. In our hurt, we may be pushing away from a real opportunity to engage and win hearts and minds. Here’s Glenn Greenwald:

Reasonable arguments can certainly be advanced in defense of the virtues of Obama’s post-partisan theory of politics.  But it’s simply unreasonable to depict any of it as new.  It’s exactly what Democrats have been clinging to, desperately and mostly with futility, for two decades at least.

I disagree. I think Obama is different. I think the earnestness and sincerity of his campaign, and its generational force, have given us a chance for something new, and I fear that in responding too viscerally to the Warren choice, we may be throwing something very valuable away far too prematurely. There is no question that gays and lesbians have made enormous strides in explaining who we are in the last couple of decades. There is equally no question that Obama has substantively committed his administration to more gay inclusion and gay equality than any president in history. We absolutely do need to be vigilant on this. But we should also understand Obama’s attempt to bridge some gaps in America that the Clintons, with their boomer baggage and Dick Morris cynicism, couldn’t and didn’t. This is what matters. Do gays and lesbians want to be a part of this – or sit fuming on the sidelines at symbolic slights?

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And isn’t it striking that someone with political views like these has become Obama’s chief apologist who published the following image at the TOP of the above article?

After supporting George W. Bush in the 2000 Presidential election, he eventually endorsed Senator John Kerry for President in 2004 after first supporting neither candidate.[8] In 2006, he supported the Democratic Party’s takeover of Congress. His political philosophy includes a broad range of traditional conservative positions: He favors a flat tax, limited government, privatization of social security, and a strong military, and he opposes welfare state programs such as socialized medicine. However, on a number of controversial public issues, including same-sex marriage and capital punishment, he takes a position typically shared by those on the left of the U.S. political spectrum. His position on abortion is more mixed; saying that he personally finds it immoral and favors overturning Roe v. Wade, but he can accept legalized abortions in the first trimester. Sullivan endorsed Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic Nomination in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and Rep. Ron Paul for the Republican nomination. On his blog, Sullivan has been highly favorable toward Obama, and has denounced McCain for running misleading campaign advertisements, and endorsed Obama for President on the eve of the election [9]. …

But never mind all that. He loves his PEBO, and that’s all that counts.

Might we be going a bridge too far in saying that he worships his PEBO? This photo that adorns the top of his post quoted above might lead one to think so:

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Andrew has found his Messiah and neither logic nor the distress of his fellow gays will take him from his dutiful worship of “The One.”