Saturday, December 27, 2008
Weinberger, some good points but still wrong
David Weinberger just sent a comment on my When Obama makes a mistake, let's NOT roll over! post, where I criticize his support for Obama's choice of Rick Warren to pray for us at the Inauguration.
He says,
Meanwhile -- and Weinberger doesn't touch this one in his comment -- what do Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Laura D'Andrea Tyson symbolize? That Wall Street cronyism is welcome under Obama's inclusive tent?
As for Weinberger's idea that if the left is too insistent about what's right, it will become marginalized and less effective, yeah, that's why Dr. King said, "Lunch counters, schools, busses? Hey, no big deal, we don't want to make anybody angry because then our issues won't get heard." And that's why janitor Barack Obama is pushing a broom at Harvard Law School after all the professors and students have gone home.
He says,
[Rick Warren] is noted among Christian evangelists for insisting that the real issue Christians ought to be exercised about is not gay marriage or abortion but world poverty. That's half the intended symbolism. The other half is precisely that RW is not a Democrat, not a liberal, not in agreement with Obama on important issues.Well said. Nevertheless, I'm not being ideologically rigid when I ask whether there isn't somebody who symbolizes these things without nauseating our gay brothers and sisters, minimizing the plight of spouses in abusive and degrading relationships, and sullying the options of people who have struggled with the extremely difficult issue of whether to continue an unintended pregnancy. If the honest answer is no, well then, Rick it is.
Meanwhile -- and Weinberger doesn't touch this one in his comment -- what do Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Laura D'Andrea Tyson symbolize? That Wall Street cronyism is welcome under Obama's inclusive tent?
As for Weinberger's idea that if the left is too insistent about what's right, it will become marginalized and less effective, yeah, that's why Dr. King said, "Lunch counters, schools, busses? Hey, no big deal, we don't want to make anybody angry because then our issues won't get heard." And that's why janitor Barack Obama is pushing a broom at Harvard Law School after all the professors and students have gone home.
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Comments:
Some good points but still wrong? Wow! That's about as right as I ever get! :)
David, I am not suggesting that we compromise or back off issues. I am saying that we need to stop demonizing everyone who disagrees with us on the issues.
As for Larry Summers, et al.: You're right. Obama is not as left as he never said he was.
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David, I am not suggesting that we compromise or back off issues. I am saying that we need to stop demonizing everyone who disagrees with us on the issues.
As for Larry Summers, et al.: You're right. Obama is not as left as he never said he was.
