It seems Barack Obama's decided to invite Pastor Rick Warren, the noted homophobe, to offer the invocation at his Inauguration as a kind of "bridge building" gesture. Maybe he's able to look into his soul or something.
It's understandable, given his background as a community organizer (not to mention someone who pitches "the audacity of hope"), that Obama believes you can reach out a hand to movement conservatives and build such bridges. Indeed, he's made it clear all along that's the kind of guy he is.
I just hope that when he finally gets that hand back after reaching it out and discovers it has been chewed clean down to the bone by a thousand vicious cuts that he has a little awakening about the nature of the nasty little beast the American Right has become in the past couple of decades. Such gestures for them are mere signs of weakness, nothing but opportunities to advance themselves and their agendas and to destroy liberals.
Bill Clinton had similar naivete early in his presidency, and it cost him dearly.
Well, Obama's not listening to us anyway. We're the now-marginalized dirty hippies he gets praised for slapping. Whatever.
So, in the spirit of bridge-building ourselves, we've tried to come up with some other invitees of the same sort who might just fit the same sort of bridge-building bill for Obama's inauguration:
- Rush Limbaugh
- Sean Hannity
- Zeb Bell
- Ann Coulter
- Sarah Palin
- Bristol Palin's future mother-in-law
- Karl Rove
- Dick Cheney
- Darth Vader
- Voldemort
Maybe you can come up with some too. I'll post some of the better suggestions in an update.
