Comments on: Rick Warren, Warmongering Torture Apologist, to Usher in Era of Hope and Change http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:58:51 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763542 dmac Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:37:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763542 <p>blue texan and pups–it occurred to me why obama invited warren.</p> <p>Reverend Joseph Lowery. it’s gonna be a slam dance. i wrote a diary about it.<br /><a href="http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/2512" rel="nofollow">http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/2512</a></p> blue texan and pups–it occurred to me why obama invited warren.

Reverend Joseph Lowery. it’s gonna be a slam dance. i wrote a diary about it.
http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/2512

]]> By: TheLurkingMod http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763482 TheLurkingMod Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:20:26 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763482 <p>Figuratively speaking, of course…</p> Figuratively speaking, of course…

]]> By: RickinSF http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763481 RickinSF Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:18:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763481 <p>I’d like to think the incoming admin. is giving Rick Warren the rope needed to hang himself.</p> I’d like to think the incoming admin. is giving Rick Warren the rope needed to hang himself.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763238 dmac Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:37:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763238 <p>i just realized who is giving the benediction, that may explain it, warren is there to balance out reverend joseph lowery. lowery is the one who threw reality at bush at coretta king’s funeral. and got a standing ovation when he did it. hmmmmm.</p> i just realized who is giving the benediction, that may explain it, warren is there to balance out reverend joseph lowery. lowery is the one who threw reality at bush at coretta king’s funeral. and got a standing ovation when he did it. hmmmmm.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763181 dmac Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:05:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763181 <p>i kept thinking, ok, he’s gathering ’round a wide variety of people, saying, tell me what you think, so he can say he did, and then would say, here’s what we’re doing. do it. just like moms and dads do when they have ‘family meetings’</p> <p>after the warren thing, i don’t think that anymore.</p> i kept thinking, ok, he’s gathering ’round a wide variety of people, saying, tell me what you think, so he can say he did, and then would say, here’s what we’re doing. do it. just like moms and dads do when they have ‘family meetings’

after the warren thing, i don’t think that anymore.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763108 SouthernDragon Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:05:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763108 <p>From day 1 I’ve said my main objection to both Obama and Clinton was the fact that they’re both dyed in the wool corporatists. It’s nice to be validated every once in a while.</p> From day 1 I’ve said my main objection to both Obama and Clinton was the fact that they’re both dyed in the wool corporatists. It’s nice to be validated every once in a while.

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763102 Hugh Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:58:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763102 <blockquote><p>like i said earlier, a few of the things he is doing is like dropping the drawbridge to the huns. i don’t get it.</p></blockquote> <p>I look at it that he is doing precisely what he wants to and then work backwards to what it says about Obama’s views. My take is that Obama is extremely Establishment, very DINO, very DLC. When he talks about inclusion, he’s talking about the Establishment elites, not ordinary Americans. He can give a good speech, even sound progressive in it, but he hasn’t taken a single progressive stand on anything that I can tell.</p>

like i said earlier, a few of the things he is doing is like dropping the drawbridge to the huns. i don’t get it.

I look at it that he is doing precisely what he wants to and then work backwards to what it says about Obama’s views. My take is that Obama is extremely Establishment, very DINO, very DLC. When he talks about inclusion, he’s talking about the Establishment elites, not ordinary Americans. He can give a good speech, even sound progressive in it, but he hasn’t taken a single progressive stand on anything that I can tell.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763093 dmac Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:50:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763093 <p>i’ve been a little, um, dismayed i guess is the word, over a few of the announcements.</p> <p>but beyond that, choosing warren kinda set a tone that is going to reverberate like a cracked bell. say goodbye to lady liberty, no more bell ringing. it is sooooooo wrong, for countless reasons.</p> <p>like i said earlier, a few of the things he is doing is like dropping the drawbridge to the huns. i don’t get it.</p> <p>there is a arcade fire song that has a line in it that fits–<br /> “how come nothing tastes good”<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljrHaEroa4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljrHaEroa4</a><br /> rock out, i’m gonna play it forty times. <strong>loud</strong> cuz that’s where we are now.</p> i’ve been a little, um, dismayed i guess is the word, over a few of the announcements.

but beyond that, choosing warren kinda set a tone that is going to reverberate like a cracked bell. say goodbye to lady liberty, no more bell ringing. it is sooooooo wrong, for countless reasons.

like i said earlier, a few of the things he is doing is like dropping the drawbridge to the huns. i don’t get it.

there is a arcade fire song that has a line in it that fits–
“how come nothing tastes good”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljrHaEroa4
rock out, i’m gonna play it forty times. loud cuz that’s where we are now.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763084 SouthernDragon Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:43:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763084 <p>Madoff, pronounced made off. How ironic. Whoever said rich people were smart by virtue of being rich didn’t know what they were talking about.</p> Madoff, pronounced made off. How ironic. Whoever said rich people were smart by virtue of being rich didn’t know what they were talking about.

]]> By: dmac http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763082 dmac Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:41:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/12/17/rick-warren-warmongering-torture-apologist-to-usher-in-era-of-hope-and-change/#comment-1763082 <p>I’ve got my walking stick, from ‘dungeon’. it’ll do.</p> I’ve got my walking stick, from ‘dungeon’. it’ll do.

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