Short diary and I know I'm going to get some heat from this but I really care at this point. Just about everyone who's going to say something about the topic has already weighed in and for the most part, I really don't like what I'm hearing.
Now for the record, I like most here do not agree at all with Obama's choice of Rick Warren. I think it was of major blunder on his part. He should've known better. But when I hear left-wing pundits like Air America's, Ron Kuby, making comments like "I wish I would've known he would've chosen Rick Warren should he win the presidency while he was running during the primary. Maybe then the selection would've turned out differently.", it makes my head spin.
Are you kidding me?
Sure, we elected Barack Obama and put him into power. And for that reason, he must be held responsible for his major decisions. That's only right. However, if we become the type of people that use one issue as a defining point of a presidency or who we want to lead us, then, we have become exactly like those we fought so hard against. That's how they do it. They find an issue that they don't like about the left and they push it and push it and push it and push it and push it until nothing else seems to matter.
We're bigger than this. We should know how to hold Obama's feet to the fire, while at the same time, know not to throw him under the bus even before you step one foot inside the White House.
I mean, is Kuby be really that angry that he would have McCain in the White House before Obama? You have to be kidding me.
Obama's choice of Warren, contrary to what some may believe, does not reflect an anti-gay sentiment on his part. Rather, it reflects an irritating degree of kowtowing to the conservative right in an effort to show bipartisanship. In that quest, Obama made a huge error in taking his consistency for granted. That certainly deserves its due backlash.
I don't know about you but I'm not giving up on my president -- not the first one to have been so proud of.