Oh Get Over It
According to recent media reports, which may of course be blowing things WAY out of proportion, various liberal groups are all upset over President-Elect Barack Obama's choice to give the invocation at his inaguration next month.
Perhaps they missed the part about bridging our differences, about reaching out to those with whom we may not agree but without whom we can not turn this nation around. Maybe they haven't been watching a cabinet being built not out of best buddies and those to whom you owe favors but rather the crafting of a Team of Rivals (to use the over-worked phrase) complete with members from both sides of the partisan aisle.
Okay so the Reverand in question is conservative and anti-gay. He is a fundamentalist who apparently thinks his way is the only fundamentally right opinion. Face it folks, there are LOTS of people like that out there and this man is not as "crazy" as some of them. I don't agree with him but I'm not going to get all pissed off over it either.
If the progressives and the other liberals and those who really took part in electing future President Obama really meant what they were saying when we were all chanting "yes we can" (build a better tomorrow, heal the nation, etc.) then they need to STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF SPOILED CHILDREN WHO DON'T WANT TO PLAY NICE WITH THE "WEIRD" KID.
It is an invoacation for crying out loud, the man speaks for and to a large segment of this country and those people need help in this economy too, those people need to have a voice in health care reform, education for their children, help with their small businesses and so on... not just the liberals. If we can't all work together then we will all go down together.
Three words: Get Over It
Perhaps they missed the part about bridging our differences, about reaching out to those with whom we may not agree but without whom we can not turn this nation around. Maybe they haven't been watching a cabinet being built not out of best buddies and those to whom you owe favors but rather the crafting of a Team of Rivals (to use the over-worked phrase) complete with members from both sides of the partisan aisle.
Okay so the Reverand in question is conservative and anti-gay. He is a fundamentalist who apparently thinks his way is the only fundamentally right opinion. Face it folks, there are LOTS of people like that out there and this man is not as "crazy" as some of them. I don't agree with him but I'm not going to get all pissed off over it either.
If the progressives and the other liberals and those who really took part in electing future President Obama really meant what they were saying when we were all chanting "yes we can" (build a better tomorrow, heal the nation, etc.) then they need to STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF SPOILED CHILDREN WHO DON'T WANT TO PLAY NICE WITH THE "WEIRD" KID.
It is an invoacation for crying out loud, the man speaks for and to a large segment of this country and those people need help in this economy too, those people need to have a voice in health care reform, education for their children, help with their small businesses and so on... not just the liberals. If we can't all work together then we will all go down together.
Three words: Get Over It
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