The person who is legitimately elected is President of all America. That explains why Bush never was.

Many people may disagree with the person who was elected, but that doesn't diminish the fact that he/she has an obligation to act in the best interest of all our citizens. The Bush regime did not EVER act in our best interests; maybe it was because they were never legitimately elected, and maybe it is because they are criminals. The distinction hardly matters now, but the next President sees it differently, I am happy to say.

The RNC will try to ruin the next presidency, but they are weak, ineffectual, and their dishonesty will only get them so far.

I guess I can see your point, to a certain extent, but I don't think it (or Klein's article) accounts for a fundamental shift in American politics.

The inclusion of Warren is more than a stunt. It is the opening shot of Obama's long-term strategy to re-engage with American Christians, still a majority group in this country. As an agnostic, I don't love the fact that our country is so religious, but it is what it is.

If Obama seeks to modernize the conversation, then acknowledging he must be President of America, and not just liberal America, seems to be a great first step.

My favorite Christmas present this year was a paperback copy of "The Audacity of Hope". I know, I know, I am far behind the crowd in my reading. I am about half-way done, but I find it absolutely amazing that anyone is in doubt about our President-elect. Since the election, he has not changed his style at all with regard to the things he wrote in this book. Even concerning this debate about inviting Rick Warren, his answer lies in the chapter about the Constitution. He was writing about the constitution and slavery, but it isn't much of a leap to apply this to the gay and lesbian movement:

"The best I can do in the face of our history is remind myself that it has not always been the pragmatist, the voice of reason, or the force of compromise, that has created the conditions for liberty. The hard, cold facts remind me that it was unbending idealists like William Lloyd Garrison who first sounded the clarion call for justice; that it was slaves and former slaves, men like Denmark Vesey and Frederick Douglass and women like Harriet Tubman, who recognized power would concede nothing without a fight. It was the wild-eyed prophecies of John Brown, his willingness to spill blood and not just words on behalf of his visions, that helped force the issue of a nation half slave and half free. I'm reminded that deliberation and the constitutional order many some times be the luxury of the powerful, and that it has sometimes been the cranks, the zealots, the prophets, the agitators, and the unreasonable-in other words, the absolutists- that have fought for a new order. Knowing this, I can't summarily dismiss those possessed of similar certainty today-the antiabortion activist who pickets my town hall meeting, or the animal rights activist who raids a laboratory-no matter how deeply I disagree with their views. I am robbed even of the certainty of uncertainty-for sometimes absolute truths may well be absolute."

These words are our call to action as Americans and I wish more people would read this book before jumping up and down accusing Mr. Obama of being unreasonable. I myself cannot wait until January 20.