Reply #45: When one considers the deft, applomb and efficiency....

[DeSwiss]

...with which the Obama campaign just dazzled us, I cannot believe that this decision wasn't deliberate, if not also a political gem. Though a blatantly solicitous act, Obama knows in the end that he can't bow to the forces who stand against Choice, nor Gays without dividing the party further. And his appointments of Pro-choice and pro-gay's will see to it that no policy decision of the religious-right's social agenda will get anywhere. I believe Obama knows this. Whether it has any long-term benefits, remains to be seen. He has already indicated that he intends to http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/obama.executive.orders/">repeal most of Bush's Executive Orders related to reproductive issues.

And yet I agree with you totally. He's a crass showman, and just another peddler of hocus-pocus mythology.

The RR's on the other hand, no doubt see this as an opportunity to try and marginalize the Pro-choice and Pro-gay factions to the outer edges of the Dem party -- from the inside. Warren's appeal seems to be with the younger Evangelicals. A group, whom according to Barna Group polls, are more into the saving of people through international hunger and education programs, instead of saving people from themselves and their "sin of homosexuality and abortion." And for that matter -- the sin of sex of any kind outside of a man and a woman -- and only when securely within the bonds of matrimony -- and preferably only in the missionary position. With your eyes closed. ;)

But why waste a perfectly good island on the likes of Rick? I say we put him into a rocket, along with all of our other nuclear and toxic waste and send it toward the sun.

- I'm only thinking of the environment!