::hugs GC and Perkins and everybody::
Yeah, GC. I get it. You're my family too. And Rick Warren (along with a bunch of other people) came after you. And they won. And I'm really pretty unhappy about that, though I know it's nothing compared to how unhappy you are about it.
But, hey....
You got married. That may yet be undone, though I really hope not, but you got married. And a bunch of other people I love a lot got married too. And every single one was a very beautiful thing, in my book.
And tomorrow we put a black guy in the white house.
It's a step.
To Hell with Rick Warren. He's wrong, and the arc of history proves him wrong, and as long as we keep at it, we'll win in the long run. I hope.
But this isn't like choosing Fred Phelps (or even Jerry Falwell, supposedly mainstream but really regressive on absolutely everything)
Or even that weirdo from Mars Hill church.
Why can't the radio stop playing "Waiting on the World to Change"? It's like the least hopeful song ever. "Now we see everything that's going wrong With the world and those who lead it We just feel like we don't have the means To rise above and beat it." "It's not that we don't care, We just know that the fight ain't fair So we keep on waiting Waiting on the world to change."
It's like dedicating that REM song to your girlfriend because you never listened to the damn words.
Why can't the radio stop playing "Waiting on the World to Change"?
Ha! JZ has heard me rail against that song ad nauseum. What a lameass motherfuckin' stonerific can't get off your ass passive protest song.
The John Mayer song that I usually rail against is "Daughters," but this one also really rankles.
Actually, does Obama *have* a song? Like Clinton had "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"? (Which, for the past 8 years, has broken my heart every time I hear it on the radio.)
Actually, does Obama *have* a song? Like Clinton had "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow"?
"The Rising" by Bruce Springsteen is the one I keep hearing.
he does represent a large chunk of the populace.
This may annoy some folks.
Warren represents a lot of people. In reading other sites, several evangelical types were gobsmacked that Obama was having him at the Inaugeration and they actually paused to re-think they're gut reaction to Obama.
Tomorrow he's being inaugerated as President of the United States, not President of the People who Voted for Me and, Oh Yeah, Those Other People, too. So it's time he starts acting like it.
I'm sorry it hurts you that Warren is there. But we can't continue the policies of rewarding only the people who agree with us. There's a huge gulf between the two ideological sections of this country, and the bridge isn't going to be built if we ignore the building materials that can reach the other side.
We can't change them if we don't talk to them, and we can't talk to them if we shun them.
