The Holiday Season equals 'The Silly Season'

Our cable news outlets and talking heads love stirring the pot. Yesterday, Barack Obama announced he had selected controversial mega church pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren to deliver the inauguration's invocation. This drove fellow liberals nuts. Here's my take on it.

I'm a self-described meat and potatoes liberal. My intellectual capacity is limited compared to many so-called Conservative and Liberal intellectual elites. I believe one of the core tenets of liberalism is tolerance. Why do I listen to the music I do? People like Ed Kowalczyk and Bono "Paul Henson" use this in their lyrics. It's silly divisiveness that tears us down. Yes, I'm offended by Warren's statements and actions pertaining to the equal rights for LGBT and women's reproductive rights, but that's not to say he and I can't sit down and have a civil discussion. Can't we all just get along?

There is someone close to me who was deeply offended by Obama's choice yesterday. Her grandmother was left penniless after Billy Graham swindled her. There is one profound statement Bono made on The Rattle and Hum album for Bullet the Blue Sky and paraphrasing: I'm sitting in my hotel room, turning on the T.V. Lovers' sounds next to me. Well, I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues, and a preacher on the Old Time Gospel Hour stealing money from the sick and old. Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister.