Reply #6: So Obama's gonna play kingmaker for the "next Billy Graham"

[Bucky]

Aaarrrrggh! This is why we have a wall of separation. I don't want the president being influential in matters of religion any more than I want ministers powerbroking the presidency.

And don't tell me this isn't costing Obama any political capital. This is at the very least risking some of his political capital with pro-choice and pro-equality liberals. The gamble here is that social conservatives will be so enamored of this symbolic gesture that some of them won't put up a real fight when Obama decides to do something liberal.

Good luck with that, sir.

I freely admit Obama has me and my support in his back pocket... for the time being. But he doesn't have me buttoned up in that pocket. He can't pull off a lot of shit like this and expect me to stay in his pocket. It's pretty naive to think that by increasing dissatisfaction on his left flank he'll somehow magically decrease the anger on his right. I sure as hell hope that's not the strategy that he's planning. I'm pretty sure that he's not that dumb, even if the Electoral-Vote.com writer is.