Every time Barack Obama breaks a promise, it’s a perfect time to point out how the president has turned his back on the gay community. Turning over detainee abuse photos? Military tribunals for terrorism suspects? Letting HIV-positive foreigners enter the U.S.? All that just points out that Obama also made a few other guarantees, like repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. The bad news?
If everyone starts pointing out how Obama reneged on his campaign promises, his lies to the gays could get washed away as “just another issue.” And we’ll be marginalized all over again. Oh no!
Lee
“Move along. Luv you, too, man! Keep the noise down. Trust me. Yes, you can—there’s still lots of room underneath.”[img]http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/02ed1V18Jk210/610x.jpg[/img]
Mike
Capping CEO pay, prosecuting those who allowed torture, ending warrantless wire tapping, Armenian genocide, funding for clean syringe programs, the list gets longer everyday.
Bob R
Well, here’s the thing, Bullshit Barry has backtracked on too many things since the electoral parties have faded into history. It’s said that all politics is local and personal and so what I have to ask is what has Barry done for me since elected? Well, just last week I got a $250 stimulus check. I do appreciate that, although Bush sent me $300 during his term. Meanwhile, it’s business as usual with the banks, credit card companies, CEO’s, CIA, etc. There’s a promise to close Guantanamo, but Bagrahm will still be business as usual. Renditions, too I believe. And warrantless eavesdropping, military tribunals, no investigation of war crimes or prosecutions, except for a poor private or PFC here and there. Nothing on DADT, DOMA, HIV travel bands and the backtracking goes on and on. But the White House hosts weekly cocktail parties and poetry jams and makes nice to conservative GOP leaders but not progressive Democrats. I’m a funny guy, once you promise me something and don’t deliver or I catch you lying to me, I never trust you again. That’s where I am with Barry. I supported him with money and effort and my vote. I doubt I’ll ever do that again.
Michael W.
@Bob R: I, on the other hand, find it refreshing that Obama has matured on national security.
Not all of his supporters had a problem with military tribunals and warrantless wiretapping. We hoped that he’d get into office and swing rightward on those issues (though his stance on wiretapping was already in place since the FISA vote) and he sure enough delivered. That are pieces put in place by the Bush regime that many (if not most) Obama supporters find adequate with a little fine tuning.
That hocus pocus liberal rhetoric sounds good in a speech but it won’t do much to keep the country safe.
Paul
@Michael W.: Not to mention thousands of more troops in Afganistan and for once threatening the UK that if they exposed more truth regarding our torture program that we will stop aharing intelligence with them. I mean, who to the British think they are anyhow. Glad Obama put them in their place, I mean we kicked their ass over 200 years ago.
rick
good fucking lord. obama has hardly been in office long enough and you expect him to fix everything overnight.
Curt
@rick: At some point that excuse has to start wearing thin. Especially with all of the equivocations and spin that his administration is performing in regards to these issues. Most of us who are old enough to remember the Clinton presidency have seen this song and dance before and aren’t as ready to give Obama the benefit of an indefinite doubt.