In which we really begin to understand “crowdsourcing” election 2008 — it was a media thing, and Jeremiah simply wasn’t big enough for this kind of entourage…

Hmmmmm…

Axelrod’s little marketing snowball has begun to make sense. So does the faux Greek Temple. I feel for Jeremiah Wright right now. I really do, given this next video, and what I just read over at American Prospect.

It’s all about the “crowdsourcing” and frankly, the Crusades redux.

No wonder there is so much upset in the gay and lesbian community over this pick.

Hmmmm… take a look at the “revival tent” circa 2008 in the clip below:

RICK WARREN’S NOT-SO-COMPASSIONATE INTERNATIONAL WORK.

“…Goldberg, author of the essential book on the Christian right, Kingdom Coming, has a new book coming out this spring about the impact of religious fundamentalism on reproductive freedom worldwide. On Religion Dispatches, she reveals some of the impact of Warren himself from her reporting in Uganda:

Yet this is symbolism with real-world consequences and concrete implications. First of all, it reifies the image that Warren has been assiduously constructing for himself as “America’s Pastor,” a post-partisan and benevolent figure with a quasi-official role atop the nation’s civic life. When it comes to his public persona, Warren is something of a magician. He has convinced much of the media and many influential Democrats that he represents a new, more centrist breed of evangelical with a broader agenda than the old religious right. This is, in many ways, deceptive. Yes, Warren has done a lot of work on AIDS in Africa, but he supports the same types of destructive, abstinence-only policies as the Bush administration. One of his protegés, Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, has been a major force in moving that country away from its lifesaving safer-sex programs. He’s been known to burn condoms at Makerere University, the prestigious school in Uganda’s capital, and in his Pentecostal services, marked by much sobbing and speaking in tongues, he offers the promise of faith healing to his desperate congregants, a particularly cruel ruse in a country ravaged by HIV…”

Hmmm....

This sounds very non-progressive to me, and, I wonder if Jeremiah Wright and the other Black Liberation Theologists are going to agree with this sort of posture. I don’t. But then, I have looked into almost all of the world’s various religions and I like them all. The corporatization of religion though?

Not a good thing.

I’m sensing the Obapocaplyse, m’self.

Or, the Hopi Prophecy coming true sometime soon. Yikes.

I personally believe that Church and State should be separate. Probably because I read Evelyn Waugh, or saw the movie “The Loved One.”

Here is a clip! (Not the one I was looking for, but it will have to suffice — this is a movie that should not be missed, especially by fans of movies like “The Big Lebowski”)

For its little ironies…

I had to check in to see what these guys had to say:

Rick Warren to give invocation at Obama’s inauguration; Update: Gay groups go ballistic

“…I was hoping for someone a little more, shall we say, audacious, but audacity’s always been unwelcome at The One’s biggest events. Enter Warren, one of the most politic choices available, who’s been courting Obama for more than two years notwithstanding his highly nuanced voting record on life-saving treatment for babies delivered after botched abortions. For his trouble he’s got a spot on the dais on Inauguration Day, just after Dianne Feinstein and before Aretha Franklin. Jackpot…”

Hmmm…

In the meantime, Uppity had the photo that tells all. .

Go enter RBO’s Caption Contest

Write a caption for this interesting photo of the guy who is going to plank his butt in the oval office pretty soon.

Incidentally, this photo was one in a series taken during those mysterious years at Occidental that nobody can find out anything about. Time magazine finds these photos “enchanting” enough to include them in his Man of the Year issue.

I wonder what’s rolled in that paper? In my time, Hawaii produced some pretty good shit, and I don’t mean Arugula either. I think they called it Wowie Maui.

Feast your eyes, be proud, and enter your caption here. First prize is an afternoon with Michelle. Second prize is two afternoons with Michelle…”

You remember don’t you?

America’s souls need fixing!

(I’m waiting on Blago, m’self…)