One of the harder things to take, as both a hardcore Obama supporter and an atheist, was his agreeing during the campaign to participate with John McCain in the so-called "pastor's forum" hosted by Rick Warren at his Saddleback Church. In retrospect, it was probably a good thing -- this reaching-out philosophy of Obama's, as hard as it is to tolerate sometimes, is the way forward. The event was a good chance for him to connect with an audience that, at that point, had probably not heard from him beyond whatever unflattering and out-of-context sound bites the McCain campaign and Fox News (pardon the redundancy) had aired.
However, it is important not to forget who Rick Warren really is. Betty Cracker watches a clip of his appearance on perpetual blowhard Sean Hannity's show:
Of course Hannity is a warmongering thug who hasn’t the faintest idea how foreign policy power functions in the country he is so transparently eager to bomb. Nothing new there. But can we stop pretending Rick Warren is a moderate now? He is also either shockingly ignorant about what the bible actually says or willing to twist its message to appeal to Hannity’s troglodyte core audience. My money’s on the latter. No respectable politician should ever take this creep seriously again.
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