Trust Me, Obama Doesn't Give A Fuck About Rick Warren

Yes, the hate mongering (but oh so "friendly" seeming--which is the worst kind of undercover nutjob, honestly) Saddlebareback Church and Purpose Driven Douche pastor Rick "This Goatee Makes Me Not Look Like Such A Lard Ass" Warren is giving the invocation at Barack Obama's socialist/terrorist inauguration next January, assuming Bush doesn't declare martial law on New Year's Eve and "postpone" everything, forever; but trust me, Barack Obama could give two shits about Warren.

Ok, that sentence was ridiculous. Let me be brief:

Your Barry inviting "Dr. Rick" is not a slap in the face to gays as much as it is a disingenuous olive branch to evangelicals. And they're falling for it! You see, Obama is all about trying to please everyone with gestures and concessions. Until he actually starts enacting policies and putting forth his specific agenda, none of us should be freaking out. So, chill.

And remember, the other religious person on the bill on inauguration day (who is in fact overseeing the benediction) is Rev. Joe Lowery. Lowery founded the SCLC with Martin Luther King and, hold on to your hats, is a supporter of same sex marriage. You don't see the religious right freaking out about this, do you? (Maybe you do, but I haven't seen anything about it as of yet.)

So yeah. Relax. Warren is, as everyone knows, a tool. We should be proud of Obama for using him as well as he is. If this endears another couple hundred thousand evangelicals to Obama, and thus helps him out in 2012, then that's fine by me.


ADDED: Wonkette chimes in, like only they can:

...[M]any progressives and gays are denouncing Obama for “crossing the line” by picking this fat nut; they have all promised to vote for Nader in 2012. This furious resistance will last, at most, four days, when new shirtless pixxx of Obama in Hawaii will leak to the Huffington Post and everyone will forget about gay invocations or whatever.

But it was a dick move by Obama, mostly because of all the very recent publicity Warren has received for helping out-of-state Mormons amend the California state constitution to dissolve civil marriages between consenting same-sex adults who live together in private. This was an evil thing, Prop 8, evil and immoral and incredibly hurtful to a lot of people. And when Obama brings in someone so attached to this current ugliness as Warren to give a speech at his Presidential Ceremony, that’s an unusually cruel and timely reminder to the gay community that the Democratic Party will not push for their “equal rights;” for Obama to claim otherwise at this press conference is a lie.

But it’s just a dumb speech and gay people are weird.

It was a dick move. But sometimes the ends justify the means. As a weird gay, I still support Obama, with or without shirtless Hawaii pics.

AND: Here's the press conference they reference.