Regular John Locke Foundation Headliner William Kristol uses his latest Weekly Standard column to evaluate President-elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration:
If Obama’s selection of Warren is smart politics, it’s of a piece with
four years of smart politics. In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech,
with his statement that “We worship an awesome God in the blue states,”
Obama tried to reassure red-state awesome-God-worshipers about the
Democratic party. Indeed, he has generally gone out of his way not to
disparage social conservatives. He knows–better than many
Republicans–that social conservatism is the strongest political force
on the right.
