Barack Obama has been delivering a mantra of the need to bring into the large discussion tent that democracy requires those who do not share "our views" after promising "fundamental change" in the recent presidential campaign.

This mantra conveys a tinny tone to progressives opposed to bigotry and reject the narrow minded view of Bush-Cheney Republicanism with strong doses of exclusionary messianic Christian evangelicalism.  

Obama's selection of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation should do more than send waves of revulsion through the hearts and minds of progressives; it should send shock waves reeling through anyone who thinks period!

Just because he has a breezy tone and smiles a lot, at bottom Rick Warren is what separation of church and state advocate Rob Boston said in an interview with Keith Olbermann: