Let's look at the last 16 years. The left spent the first half in a rage over the right wing, media-backed witch hunts involving the Clintons. They spent the next 8 furious over the systematic dismantling of everything that this nation has stood for these last 200+ years. Liberals are quite used to being angry.

Now we have a liberal President-elect, but one who has a large pragmatic streak. The right got it handed to them in two consecutive elections. A black man with a Muslim father and name with a short history on the national stage just won the Presidency in a landslide. The right is in complete and total disarray. They are more pathetic than rage-inspiring these days.

So, after hating so much for so long, liberals are confused. We have to hate someone, don't we? So instead of riding the wave of hope forward, the left has decided to demonize every move that Obama has made in the transition that isn't directly pandering to the most extremist agenda that the left can imagine. Obama is still more than a month away from assuming the Presidency, but has already had to defend himself more from confused progressives and their attacks than most new Presidents have to defend themselves from attacks by the losing party.

Perhaps it is time to set the rage aside and get a life? It isn't Obama's fault if you somehow convincced yourself that an Obama election would mean mandatory gay sex for all or that we were going to dismantle the Army and throw flowers at al Qaeda. Turn off the reality filters that are shading your memories and you will find that Obama- GASP- attended an event at Rick Warren's church during the campaign. The fact that Prop 8 passed the same day you voted for Obama does nothing to change the actual facts.

I propose that if we must hate, we find a new target and let Obama have a legitimate chance. So, let's shamelessly make poorly reasoned attacks on someone else for now. I suggest we focus our vitriol on someone unsuspecting. Let's pile on Caroline Kennedy. Damn, Salon beat me to it.

They should demand their money back and so should anyone else who opposed prop. H8. If Warren is going to speak, they should at least make him wear his white sheet and hood and look like what he really is.

So despite the fact that Obama stated LONG before Election Day that he was opposed to gay marriage and made absolutely no secret of it AND despite the fact the he attended the "Faith Forum" at the same Rick Warren's church during the campaign, these people who gave Obama money, expecting him to be something other than what he clearly stated, deserve their money back? That is ludicrous.

There will be an invocation and a benediction. One will come from the Warren, an idiot who does more damage to Christianity than just about anyone outside of Bush but is popular with a large segment of the population, and the other will come from a more progressive minister. That sounds like a good balance to me.

I think the radical gay agenda folks here should also stop and consider what exactly giving an invocation for Obama does for Rick Warren. He will be giving the invocation for a man that he disagrees with on most of the key issues he champions. He will be offering a prayer for a pro-choice, pro-gay rights President in the most visible way possible. So it is either a mending of some fences OR Warren sticks his foot in his mouth and gets crucified by the media (hurting his bottom line, which is all that "preachers" like him care about anyway).

This so-called controversy is much ado about nothing.

Lastly, I would say again that trying to equate the opposition to the desire to redefine a millenia old institution (marriage) with the kind of things that the KKK has historically done is not an argument that is going to help the gay community. Rick Warren is obnoxious, but he hasn't called for any lynchings of gay people, nor has he called for his supporters to burn giant strap-ons in the yards of lesbians.

Obama has not changed his position on gay marriage or his willingness engage those he disagrees with. The only thing that has changed since you walked into the voting booth is that Prop 8 passed. If you prefer to stop fighting for the real civil rights issues facing gays across the country so you can spend the next 4 or 8 years whining about Prop 8 passing, that is fine. But the fact that you were living in a dream world where Obama supported gay marriage when you gave money, despite all the evidence to the contrary, doesn't entitle you to a refund.