From Indecision 2008…

Barack

Obama got some guff this week for nominating a friend of Big Corn to be

Agriculture Secretary, but it was nothing compared to the brouhaha

that's brewhahaing over his choice of Pastor Rick Warren as Secretary

of Invocations.

I'm sorry, I have that wrong. Apparently it's not a cabinet position. It's just the dude who says a prayer at the inauguration.

So why is this something anyone gives a shit about let alone the

biggest news story of the week? Oh, it must be because we maybe

shouldn't have a prayer at a Presidential inauguration in the first

place, right?

No?

Well, this must be why I'm not a well-fed TV pundit, because I can't

seem to be able to wrap my big dumb head around this at all. But

apparently there are liberals who are flipping out because Obama picked a pro-life, anti-gay guy to give the invocation. Meanwhile, conservatives are flipping out because Warren agreed to give an invocation at the inauguration of a pro-choice, pro-gay President. Amazing.

If only science could create some sort of Ward Churchill/Phyllis

Schlafly hybrid beast to give the prayer, perhaps everyone would be

happy. Well, everyone except maybe James Madison.