For those of us who supported Obama and change and opposed California's Proposition 8, the choice of Rick Warren not only shamelessly and heartlessly betrays the LGBT community (which nearly unanimously supported Obama) but also is yet another pre-inaugural decision that makes me pause to think: Have we been conned?
We voted for change, and got the Clintons instead. Yes, Obama and the American economy and America itself is headed for disaster. Why? First Obama appoints Clinton as Secretary of State, despite the blatant conflicts of interest with her husband's foundation. Hillary Clinton is poseur with no organizational skills or foreign policy experience. Then Obama appoints Clinton-Ruben cronies Summers and Geitner to head the economy, two of the cabal who overturned Glass-Stegall which let loose the jackals who directly precipitated our current financial collapse. Then he appoints an attorney general who just happened to legally approve the pardon of Marc Rich, an audacious and convicted Wall Street thief and fugitive from justice.
What's next? Appointments for Madoff's lieutenants? Or how about a pardon for Madoff himself?
Pardon my profound disappointment and cynicism. This guy who's about to become president is not the guy I thought I was voting for.