Rick Warren vs. The GLBT Marching Band

[thoreau]

I'm sure the neoconservative blogosphere is full of as many posts about Obama letting a gay marching band in the inaugaral parade as our blogosphere is full of "wtf rick warren" posts. Warren gets his 30 seconds; the LGBT Marching Band parties all way down Pennsylvania Avenue. Lets not be too hasty in cyer-bitchslapping Obama. I'd say his people are playing both sides of the blogosphere for maximum impact.

Comments

[bluebear2.livejournal.com]

I can relate to your position. I think Obama is, as he said, wanting to get people to work together despite differences. Let's give him a chance to try that.
In Canada in the early '70s there was a division of the English vs. the French. Then we had a Prime Minister who was both, Pierre Trudeau. He made things overall much better and one of the reasons that Canada is a nice place to be now. (It's currently threatened of course but that's another story.)
We could have gone down another road back then but the idea of hope and of working together while being different led us down a better one. Not perfect but in the context of what can happen in this world, as good as it could get.

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

This is a very good analogy. Thanks for relating it so clearly.