This needs to be read and spread

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God knows I am no fan of Christopher Hitchens' utterances on Christianity and Christians. But what he says here - http://www.slate.com/id/2207554/ - is simply just and commonsensical. To have Rick Warren attend the swearing-in of the new President, only two years after he all but prostituted himself to one of the worst tyrants in the world (who is also one of America's worst enemies), is to reward immorality and hucksterism of an almost caricatural extreme.

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[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

Good point. There is also the issue that, even such as he is, Warren may not be willing to compromise as much as Obama hopes.

Shrewd may have been the wrong word; I think the invitation was certainly very deliberate and carefully calculated, but that does not mean Obama's basic assumptions are correct, both with respect to the amount of political capital he actually has to spend, and with respect to Evangelical pliancy.