Reverence For Celebrity

by digby

I just saw Obama hug Bishop Robinson at the Lincoln Memorial and it did my heart good. (Unfortunately it was right after he hugged Bono so none of the gasbags — that I heard — mentioned it.)

I so wish they’d asked Robinson to give the invocation at the inauguration and had Rick Warren do today’s event with a bunch of celebrities. He fits into that category far better than Father Robinson.

Update: Apparently HBO didn’t show the Bishop’s invocation at all. I didn’t it on the cable news shows either, but I might have missed it.