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Re: Re: Re: extremely well written, but I disagree.
Thanks.
I suspect that Obama chose Warren because of those 'interviews' Warren got with Obama and McCain, which got a lot of press, and despite the protests of the Christian right, helped Obama more than McCain. So it was a thank you, and it is an honor. But everyone makes mistakes. (I mean, look at what's happening with Bill Richardson now.)
posted by
mousehop
on January 5, 2009 at 5:21 PM
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Re: Re: extremely well written, but I disagree.
He hasn't earned many people's respect.
Why tolerate the intolerant?? Because, maybe mousehop, I hadn't gotten the fool onto my radar before Obama picked him, I say picked him, not Honored him, so, maybe he was just meant to be picked so as to be examined, learned about and vilified, I guess.
Now all of us know what he thinks and believes and can maybe work harder to change his foolish mind or that of his congregation and others like them. Dunno. He is welcome to his, totally the opposite of mine, opinion.
I think that we'll have to kill dumb kids when they are really young to weed out the people who don't all think as one. Maybe in college when kids begin to really have their own opinions, right or wrong. Specially laced soda pop, I think or pizza.
OMgosh, I have to agree about Titanic and Braveheart, tho', and agree about invocations, too. We do agree about much more, I see. AND, I like your writing, a lot.
posted by
benzinha
on January 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM
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Re: extremely well written, but I disagree.
Okay, so I wasn't actually planning an inaugural party anyway, and I don't much care who give an invocation, because as far as I'm concerned it's just a poetry reading with your eyes closed, but Rick Warren has not earned my respect, so I don't like to see him honored. I also didn't like seeing Titanic or Braveheart win Oscars.
I'm in favor of letting Warren speak all he wants, and even inviting him to the table for discussion of moral issues in politics, but why give him a place of honor? Because he's good at self-promotion and has a big congregation? And ignore all the stupid and offensive things he's said? After all, Warren is intolerant. Why tolerate that?
posted by
mousehop
on January 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM
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A promotion of an openminded attitude.
Hope it is contagious.
posted by
merkie
on January 4, 2009 at 2:15 PM
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Re: extremely well written, but I disagree.
Hear Hear!
posted by
mimajo
on January 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM
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I loved
benzinha's comment so much that I had to comment, Amen to that! Surely no harm can be done by an inaugural prayer! Great post and great response!
posted by
KaBooM62
on January 3, 2009 at 10:17 PM
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extremely well written, but I disagree.
I want all people to have equal voices, even the idiots.
I don't believe in shutting up the fools who irritate the heck out of me or who make me want to shoot them in the foot Just One Time, Please.
Children are like that, and sometimes they have to say their idiocies out loud and many times before they hear themselves and notice that the world finds them to be really dumb. I always let the children speak and I let the fools speak, too.
America is growing much too intolerant of blockheads and fools and bigots. When we are all perfect then we can speak and refuse to listen to a fool, otherwise, just consider him/her your idiot relative and ignore what he says, though I think that he, the Rev., will be saying generalized tolerant things and won't speak his stupid mind right there at the Inauguration, do you??
Please. Let them put their feet in their mouths, my elders always let us do that, so as to learn something from it.
Let intolerance go, let it go, let it go. Have your Inaugural parties, celebrate the arrival of a man who fears no voice, no opinion, no POV, but embraces Americans in all their good, their bad and their indifference.
I grow so intolerant of intolerance as to go mad. Let it all go. Let it go.
posted by
benzinha
on January 3, 2009 at 6:21 PM
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another great read! well written and thought provoking. tolerance is key.
posted by
muley12
on January 3, 2009 at 1:43 PM
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