Obama is weaseling on anti-discriminatory changes to a government program that is un-Constitutional to begin with:
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday the executive order the president signed "is a key step forward. It doesn't resolve all issues at the outset, but it does provide a mechanism to address difficult legal issues moving forward."
On the matter of discriminatory hiring, Obama "found that one of the problems with the previous initiative was that tough questions were decided without appropriate consideration, data, and input from different sides," Psaki said in an e-mail interview. "There were ideological decisions, instead of decisions based in fact."
What a terrible cognitive dissonance — for non-fact-based decisions to mar the rational clarity that is religion!
Anyway, once Obama has gotten all the input and solved all our problems (if I may be so churlish as to suggest all our problems weren't solved by his mere election), let's send him back in time, so he can meet with slave owners, Nazis, et al. and take their input into account, just as attention must be paid to today's blessed homophobes.
Arthur has seen the light:
This is deeply admirable. You wouldn't want to extort money from American citizens, proceed to shovel their money to delusional fantasists, and then demand that the fantasists hire people that their delusions proclaim to be evil. That hardly seems sporting. What the hell are delusions for, if not to torment, torture, flay and burn those who decline to partake of them? You don't "want to rush a decision on such a complex decision" (sic, sick, you choose). Besides, there's an auto-da-fe scheduled for tomorrow morning!
Well, the extra-good news is that the FBI (Is that what they call the Faith-Based Initiatives office? May as well, since it's now in cahoots with the National Security Council) is being led by a Pentecostal minister. That's the change we've all been waiting for!
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Dang, VL -- nothing's sacred, is it?
That kid at the White House Office for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has a history of working with religious communities on behalf of Obama's campaign, and a Master's degree. In the religious pseudoscience of Public Affairs, from the notoriously unreliable Princeton University.
Baby steps, dude. This one looks like a bunny hop on the surface of the Sea of Tranquility to me.
I mean, c'mon. After eight years of lawyers from the University of Pat Robertson, how could this NOT be ... a slap in the face to the true believers?
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
DuBois has a Princeton degree. So?
He apparently isn't exactly welcomed by those he's supposed to lead. It seems they consider him to be...inexperienced.
Nothing good can come from the government continuing to blur the lines between church and state. And here's just one example.
Lastly, I'd be careful with relying on certain degrees to mean someone is automatically qualified.