Obama should give David Duke a Cabinet Position

The Raw Story | Frank get 'post-partisan depression' over Warren inauguration invite

Rep. Barney Frank, the only openly gay member of Congress, feels that president-elect Barack Obama has made a "serious mistake" in asking pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation.....

Rev. Rick Warren leads a southern California mega-church, and is author of the multi-million selling self-help book, "The Purpose Driven Life." Warren and his congregation were instrumental in supporting Proposition 8, a ballot measure passed in Nov. which banned gay marriage in the state.

Obama has maintained that his inclusion of Rev. Warren is part of his efforts to bring separate groups together around common causes.

"That dialogue is part of what my campaign is all about," said the President-elect.

  Obama's right. We should all embrace his new spirit of inclusiveness and diversity (except of course where gays and lesbians are concerned). And in order to show that he's not just the stereotypical gay-bashing black male and only appears to be a black male, he should invite David Duke to his inauguration, or maybe make him ambassador to Austria or something. I heard him interviewed by Michel Martin, who I really like, and I had to give them both high marks for the interview: they baited each other in a genteel sort of way but they kept it civil and interesting. Obama appears so determined to let the Neocons and Bible-Beaters and Wall Street Ponzi-schemers financiers we thought we defeated in the last election snatch victory from the jaws of defeat that he should probably give Duke a Cabinet position dealing with race relations or equal opportunity or something.