Reply #48: For the national audience, it does just fine. It is NOT center stage. [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

The invocation, at the very start of it all, will be 2 minutes of platitudes mixed with ceremonial god-talk. Much of the audience will miss it entirely.

After that 2 minute nothing comes the inauguration, and Obama's speech, and ending with Lowery's benediction - and Lowery is 180 degrees away from Warren.

Warren will be a forgotten footnote - what will be remembered will be Obama and, because of the final placement, Lowery.

All that Warren is is a sop to the megachurch nutjobs. It mean butkis.