Salon’s Mike Madden has the details about how the Obama HQ first tried to shuffle info about the Warren invite under the rug, then lied about who issued the invite, and went on from there:
News of Warren’s involvement in the inauguration came out of the congressional committee working on the inauguration instead of from Obama’s own inaugural committee, a wholly separate entity.
At least initially, aides for Obama’s inaugural committee said the decision had come from Congress, not Obama. In fact, that wasn't the case at all.
“That was solely the choice of the president-elect,” said Gil Duran, a spokesman for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chairs the congressional committee. Obama'’ staff sent explicit orders for whom to include in the inaugural ceremony up to Capitol Hill, since Congress is, technically, in charge of that part of the day.
“Sen. Feinstein obviously disagrees with the views of Rev. Warren on issues that affect the gay and lesbian community,” Duran said.
As Madden noted, that was the wheels of Feinstein’s bus you heard, at least trying to run over the slippery Obama.
Beyond the lying itself is the nature of the lies of Obama/Obama campaign, speaking of “slippery.”
As I get read for Democrats to again accuse me, a left-liberal, of not being liberal — the lies are Clintonesque, in the same legalistic way. I guess you DO learn a few things at Harvard Law.
Meanwhile, in a mix of irony and petard-hoisting (for someone else, not him), Warren has already told the truth about the invite:
Warren's spokesman, A. Larry Ross, told Salon Obama had contacted Warren to invite him, not the other way around.
In a statement, Warren said, “I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn’t agree on every issue, to offer the invocation at his historic inaugural ceremony.”
Wrong, Herr Warren. Obama has no imperial-clothing courage after all.
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