Presidential candidate John Edwards and his gay friends sent out a love letter yesterday. In the letter, the Democrat’s campaign highlights Edwards’ viability in the forthcoming election and celebrate his localized political eye:
While members of the LGBT community are by no means single-issue voters, you may be asking yourself what all of this has to do with the LGBT community and our agenda. As most of us now realize, almost all of the victories for our community have been at the state and local level. These victories are largely due to the hard work, persistence and talent of LGBT statewide organizations and their allies. Because these activists devoted their lives to educating their neighbors and elected representatives, we have marriage in Massachusetts, civil unions in New Jersey, Vermont, California, New Hampshire and Connecticut, and laws providing workplace equality, safe schools, protection from hate crimes and domestic partnership registries in dozens of states and local municipalities.
As members of the LGBT community, we are supporting John Edwards for President because if we want to continue to see this kind of progress in the states and to see the bills that we all have worked so hard to get enacted, we need to maintain the majorities Democrats hold in statehouses and build new ones. And there is only one candidate with a 50-state plan who can ensure that we capitalize on the opportunities we have across the nation. That candidate is John Edwards.
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Via Bloggernista:
Dear Friends:
The 2008 Presidential elections offer our country and our community a chance to make history, by fundamentally restructuring American politics from the White House to the statehouse. That is why we are supporting Senator John Edwards for President and hope that you will consider joining us.
As the Democratic presidential nominee, John Edwards would represent nothing less than the chance to alter the conventional foundations of American politics. Edwards demonstrates strong leadership, not only on the critical issues facing the LGBT community, but also by offering bold ideas like guaranteeing universal health care to every man, woman and child in this nation, ending poverty in this country during our lifetime, and stopping global warming while creating hundreds of thousands of quality American jobs in a new energy economy. As the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee Edwards will run a 50-state campaign- helping to strengthen Democratic officials, not only in traditionally “blue” states, but also in “battleground” and “red” states.
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Edwards’ “policy ideas are shaping the Democratic presidential race.” The Economist- July 19, 2007
Edwards’ bold leadership on the critical issues, both on those unique to our community and those that transcend all communities, has set the policy agenda for this election, making it safe for others to follow. Edwards was the first candidate to offer a truly universal health care plan, the first candidate to offer a comprehensive global warming proposal, and the first to offer a comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy. Early on, Edwards accepted responsibility and apologized for his vote to invade Iraq, and he has consistently called upon Congress to stand up to President Bush to force an end to the war.
I am the candidate running for president on the Democratic side who’s actually won an election in a red state running against the Jesse Helms political machine. John Edwards- “Meet the Press” October 7, 2007
Edwards is the Democrat with the best chance to regain the White House against all of the top Republican candidates and offers the best chance to help Democrats get elected in some of the toughest races in the country because of his appeal in traditionally “red” areas. According to Doug Shoen, former pollster for President Bill Clinton, Edwards is “the strongest individual match up” against Republicans in the general. Edwards puts into play states where Democrats running for president have not competed in years. For example, his strength in places like Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma, will help Democrats competing in tight races, including for control of governorships and legislatures, control of which may mean more to LGBT Americans than most.
While members of the LGBT community are by no means single-issue voters, you may be asking yourself what all of this has to do with the LGBT community and our agenda. As most of us now realize, almost all of the victories for our community have been at the state and local level. These victories are largely due to the hard work, persistence and talent of LGBT statewide organizations and their allies. Because these activists devoted their lives to educating their neighbors and elected representatives, we have marriage in Massachusetts, civil unions in New Jersey, Vermont, California, New Hampshire and Connecticut, and laws providing workplace equality, safe schools, protection from hate crimes and domestic partnership registries in dozens of states and local municipalities.
As members of the LGBT community, we are supporting John Edwards for President because if we want to continue to see this kind of progress in the states and to see the bills that we all have worked so hard to get enacted, we need to maintain the majorities Democrats hold in statehouses and build new ones. And there is only one candidate with a 50-state plan who can ensure that we capitalize on the opportunities we have across the nation. That candidate is John Edwards.
Eric Stern, Former National Stonewall Democrats Executive Director
David Mixner, Former Bill Clinton for President Adviser
Dan Hinkley, Nevada Stonewall Democratic Caucus President
John A. Pérez, Democratic National Committee Member
Linda Elliott, Human Rights Committee Board of Directors Member
David Tseng, Kerry-Edwards 2004 National LGBT Advisory Committee Co-Chair
Skip Paul, Corporate Executive
Jenny Durkan, Washington LGBT Community Leader
Scott Benson, Majority Leader Minneapolis City Council
Kenda Kirby, former Executive Director of North Carolina Human Rights Initiative
Ian Palmquist, Equality North Carolina, Executive Director
Eric Marcus, Author and Gay Activist
Scott Wiener, Human Rights Campaign Board of Directors Member
Ken Keechl, Broward County Commissioner; Former Dolphin Democrats President
Ron Ginsburg, LGBT Community Activist
Gregory G. Simoncini, Commissioner of Illinois Human Rights Commission
Jeff Gardner, Vice Chair of Garden State Equality
James Duff, TV Producer
Robert D. Horvath, Mautner Project Board of Directors Member
Patrick J. Lyden, LGBT Community Activist; Homeland Security Advisor
Kevin Jennings, New York LGBT Community Activist
Stephen Handwerk, Board Member of National Stonewall Democrats
Jeff Anderson, Former Co-Chair of John Kerry for President National LGBT Finance Committee
Jeff Soukup, Former President and COO, PlanetOut Inc.
Andy Szekeres, Former Colorado Stonewall Co Chair
Sean Kosofsky, Michigan LGBT Community Leader
Mark Periello, Former Human Rights Campaign staff member
Kyle Bailey, Board member of National Stonewall Democrats
Hans Johnson, President of Progressive Victory
Todd Elmer, Former Clinton Administration Commerce Department Official
Les Krambeal, Board member of National Stonewall Democrats
Leslie Giblett, Washington LGBT Community Leader
Alexis Pontikis, Washington LGBT Community Leader
Gregg Gallo, National Stonewall Board Members
David Mariner, Former Out for Howard Dean Co-Chair
*Organizations listed for identification purposes only
Jason M.
Screw you John. You lost whatever shred of respect you had when you used right wing talking points and attacked a fellow democrat. You showed your true colors by attacking both Spitzer and Clinton over the New York DL issue. Win at all costs but screw the party? You may have just lost the dem’s the election next year. Shame on you!
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
I confess that the compromisory verus adversarial politics practiced by you and parliamentary governments would drive me to the political hinterlands.
Here is how yours works. The first premise is that your government is totally controlled by universal corporate accords that are supranational entities. The corporate elitists purchased the media (visual, aural and print) outright in order to edit and frame the debate.
K Street lobbyists write the laws and buy the leaders and members on both sides of the aisle.
Then – the liberals became a minority caucus within the Corporate DLC and DINO wing….and to be fair, the true conservatives became the minority caucus within the Corporate Neocon and Theocon wing of the Corporatist International party.
Bread and circus includes political theatre for the masses where the nominees are decided by them through their media whores before one vote is cast. Of course, there is WWF, NFL, and Hollywood scandals to keep the masses “infotertained”.
Guys like Dennis Kucinich are reduced to jokers who would tell the truth about a UFO sighting. He still lives in his modest home and not a drop of scandal despite recent marriage. Gentrified gay groups diss Gravel and Kucinich and give their support to individuals who want to enshrine second tier separate and unequal rights.
Motion discomfort bag, please !!!
ProfessorVP
Opie puts out this wonderful message: I’m a bigot on same-sex marriage, but don’t worry, my wife isn’t.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Elizabeth Edwards is a person, to my belief, who truly supports Marriage Equality for you. I also believe that John Edwards would do so if that would not be treated by the media whores as a UFO moment. That is why John Edwards would never provide you with a modicum of rights that you have right now. It reminds me of what Mrs. Heinz Kerry in 2004, when she alluded to the fact that if John were elected, you would have a “mama in the White House.”
I do not believe that either Clinton was truly supportive of anything that does not poll well. Ever since he lost his gubernatorial reelection bid as a liberal, and came back a DLC pragmatist two years later, the man supports anything that plays well with the elitists, and so does she.
JasonM.
I am telling you folks he’s only doing this because he’s desperate. He screwed up big on tuesday night and everyone knows it.
Rudeometer
Sir, free speech is free speech. We believe in it for everyone not just residents of the US. But did all your years as an apparent minister of Jesus not teach you some humility? Your repetitious and pointless vaunting of how perfect your Canada supposedly is is one thing, but to presume to talk down to us about our own country and government with, “Here is how yours works,” is going a bit too far, don’t you think?
I’ve never read anything on Queerty by anyone that did not recognize and damn the many flaws in our society and poltical system. So what is behind your compulsive need to patronize us other than your need to feel superior?
Thank you for sharing your opinions but a little less unsolicited exigesis and a lot less emoting ex cathedra would help. Thank you. More tea?
underbear1
I posted at John Edwards site that Elizabeth and Cate should reachout to open and affirming gay/lesbian churches, because many EX Obama supporters are ANGRY and hurt and will gravitate to another campaign.
A brilliant idea for Edwards would be to schedule a big GOSPEL CONCERT 4 EVERTONE or “that’s what friends are for”
bring in LGBT choruses, and gay or gay friendly performers….that would say F*CK McClurkin
BIGTIME!
Maybe David Geffen could suggest some talent
Jennifer Hudson, I’d like Patti LaBelle who comforted our community through the early days of AIDS.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-8/1210139/bus.jpg
btw gaywired has an excellent column “bye bye barack”
Wolfie
So much edwards bashing.
Yes he may be desperate but he’s FAR from a bigot.
he may not be for Gay Marriage and his wife may be but look at the real fact that issue would never probably cross his desk over the next four years or even eight years.
You hold his attacks at Spitzer and clinton against him. But what of Hillary’s attacks against Obama?
Put it in perspective please. Would you LOSE any rights if Edwards were elected? Nope. Think John Edwards would have had any provblems with the Hate Crimes law. NO. but most importantly who focuses more on Domestic affairs. Fixing the country internally and who wants the war ended immediattly and put that money to better use within our country and has a focus on getting us back the Freedom that we have lost over the past 8 years and at least try to get us back to where we should be internally. There are people who said carter was a HORRIBLE president. But he was excellent on Domestic issues and thats what this country needs.
Edwards is NOT a Bible Thumper. he may be a but “Opie and squeaky” but Hillary may be a bit shady and Obama might be too young. Out of the three I have to vote for Edwards sorry. I think where he may not be the best in advancing Gay Marriage (Which is really a VERY small issue right now in the overveiw of everything at stake) I don’t think he would harm it. There are much more pressing matters at hand here in this country. namely healing and fixing it inside out coutry. And for that I believe Edwards is the best for the job. he has a strong DOMESTIC platform and thats what we need right now. And with his past as a laywer perhaps that ould help bring some of the blantant corruption and fraud of the past 8 years in the republican party to light and prosecuted.
Sorry voting for Edwards. Unless Gore throws his hat in. Its always voting for the lesser of all evils and what would be the best for the country. And right now its time to be selfish and care about the country. NOT the world. thats Edwards.
adamblast
Edwards is looking better to me all the time, but that speaks more to my disillusionment with Obama and Hillary than anything else.
It’s a long way to next November. I can’t imagine how I could support Obama now–and Hillary’s steadfast defense of her husband’s DoMA and DADT is starting to get insulting.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Dear Rude the Dude-
Let me introduce myself. I don’t blog alot. My name is Nigel S.-S. and I was born and raised in Plymouth MA, USA. Yep, that Canuck married a Yankee- a real Congregational old Pilgrim stock variety. I’m SAR and GAR and no one can take a front seat to my USA credentials including officer status during Vietnam in theatre with lst cav.
My spouse could be an elitist, but he isn’t. He is a great husband and father and activist. He and I have no back seat to LBGT activism. No sir. You bet your ass that Canada has rights and you don’t buddy, and all he says beyond stating facts that you don’t like to hear, is that you should take some advice from activists who have won the damn rights you may want.
BTW, we own the ancestral home on Cape Cod, and spend alot of time there. Our son is a dual national and when he is an adult, then he can decide which nation he would want to live and raise his family, whatever the psychosexual orientation he ends up with.
So next time before you get your panties in a twist and engage in some subtle xenophobia, read the profiles buddy, okay.
Jason M.
Edwards was my second choice for the nomination, due to his vision and ideas. I reject Edwards because he’s selfishly willing to lose the election for Dems and has decided he has nothing to lose personally. Any candidate that carries water for political right-wing hitjobs is not worthy of my support. I’m not talking about differences on ideas or policy: naked personal attacks by committee.
Tom
Stop swinging your purse, Mary, pardon me, Nigel.
I second Rudeometers observation. Your loyalty is admirable but doesn’t change the fact that post after post of your bloviating beloved involves an arrogant smear about we poor Americans are too stupid not to live in Canada. What’s his point? Can we all come live with you? I refuse to share a bed and no disrespect but I demand a lock on my door.
In addition to a home, you share his fondness for exaggeration and self-canonization.
“You bet your ass that Canada has rights and you don’t buddy”?
Actually, we have quite a few rights, thank you. Not as many as Canada yet, and not equally in all places but neither did Canada’s change on every issue overnight.
“you should take some advice from activists who have won the damn rights you may want”?
Very noblesse oblige of you both, and I don’t mean to be ungrateful but I can’t help but be confused. On the one hand your pontificating partner keeps lecturing us on the differences in the political systems and cultures of Canada and the U.S. but then you insist that, nevermind, our ways will work for you, too.
In addition, there’s that fact you both conveniently keep ignoring: even were our elected/appointed political systems were not so vastly different, the population of Canada is only a little more than ONE-TENTH the population of the U.S. and common sense should tell even you that it’s a hell of a lot harder to effect change involving 301 million people spread out over 50 states and nearly 20 territories than Canada’s 33 million over 13 provinces and territories.
I would add for you Auntie Em’s wise advice from The Wizard of Oz — “Don’t go posing for any statues now” – – but it’s obviously too late for that.
Pax vobiscum.
hisurfer
I hate this logic: “Edwards is the Democrat with the best chance to regain the White House. ”
This is the same thing TPTB told us about Mondale (who I actually really liked), Dukakis, and Kerry – that we should vote for them because they had a better chance at winning, and that middle American liked them more, than the other more progressive/liberal/ethnic candidates. Democrats always fuck up when we vote for who we think is the most ‘electable’ rather than the candidate who speaks best to our beliefs and values.
IthacaGuy
It’s really a shame that the gay community rejects Edwards out of hand because of his stance on gay marriage. Let us not forget that he supports civil unions and has said repeatedly that he would not allow his religious objection to manifest itself in his policymaking. It is a purely personal concern, and not sufficient to deny equal rights to a segment of the American public, and Edwards has said so plainly.
But gay marriage, contrary to what some of you may believe, is not the only, or even the most important, issue at stake in this election. Edwards represents a refocusing of American energies on taking care of the American worker, from his healthcare policies to his staunch and well-placed support of unions to his ideas on restructuring social security to repealing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to bringing our men and women home from Iraq.
For me, the choices are clear. Hillary, a continuation of political pandering to the moneyed elite. Obama, too young and inexperienced and with no solid ideas on how to effect the change he claims to represent. But John Edwards? John Edwards is the right choice for the American people, gay, straight, or yellow polka-dotted.
Bill Perdue
Say it’s not so! Are ‘Rudeometer’ and ‘Tom’ also being channeled by that same twit Frances who’s usually channeling Roy Cohn?
Sad but true. Frances dons these masks because he quickly wears out his welcome when he infests a blog with his bitter, elitist venom. It’s his brilliant Ann Coulter imitation that exposes him every time.
Give it a rest, dummy.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Tom, the Bishop here.
….. et debite nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos debitoribus nostris……..
Sometimes, dear one, I forget that most gay and lesbian persons are victims of both political and spiritual violence, that the tendency to bitch slap every “uppity faggot” is a cottage industry.
Having been out for nearly a half century, including the pre-Stonewall days of the sixties, I have been bitch slapped by several generations including your own.
My spouse is a citizen of the United States of America and a citizen of Canada. So is our son. His point is always that arrogance and ignorance are not virtues, but often define the American perception worldwide. That is HIS feeling about HIS country.
Nigel thinks that this venue is not appropriate for the audience we seek and are part of. That audience are the monogamous gay and lesbian couples with families.
We help such families find ways to immigrate to MA or other areas in New England and Middle Atlantic States who can realise some benefits. Since Americans can marry in Canada, we are also helping, and have helped American families translate into liberty and justice for all.
Tom, we have been doing this for generations. Also, Nigel was one of many Vietnam veterans who opposed the war after serving in it. Many ran away from conscription and established lives in our country.
We understand that there are many straights and gays who never want marriage and live their whole lives in a ghetto of their or others have made for them.
But there are American gay and lesbian families who cannot raise their children in a hostile and sometimes dangerous environment when there are options today.
Pax vobiscum. Et cum spiritu tuo.
Nigel doesn’t blog and is nursing our son, Nigel, who stayed home from preK in order to nurse a cough.
You see, my interest is not so much for the party circuit boy but for the monogamous gay and lesbian couples who actually are raising children they helped procreate or adopt.
If you change tricks like you change shirts, and want the sex gay ghetto life, my presence is more than an annoyance. Yes, we do help such families immigrate to Canada. Other groups are helping with other nationals as well as Americans
You can second the other observation, and like the difference in population information that you stated, the majority of interactions with American activists throughout the decades have been welcome and positive.
I was unaware that Nigel had written on this blog.
He usually comes to my defence when there is a bitch slap, my way. I usually try to forgive my neighbour’s transgressions as I wish mine forgiven and go on.
Nigel worked very hard on the MA marriage equality retention. It took three years and everything that the theocons could devise in order to retain the ONLY state with statewide marriage licences equal for all couples.
Nigel spoke with many activists about the need to refuse incrementalism. There is the CT, NH, NJ and VT civil union statutes that will not easily translate into civil marriage. Only one province accepted it, QC, and it took another year beyond ON to get the marriage act passed there. All in all, from ON marriage rights to all Canada took two years.
Ignorance and arrogance are two vices that does not a virtue make. My American spouse and dual national son provide me with the ability to make my voice known as if I were an American.
A good point that. I could provide Nigel with landed immigrancy and eventual citizenship, but Nigel could not provide the same to me.
Let us state very clearly. With the exception of RDP laws in California, and the civil unions where mentioned with NY and MD in the wings to get second tier rights, there is nothing in the USA to help gay and lesbian couples with families.
underbear1
It doesn’t take much to appear gay-friendly or anti-war….until they demonstrate they AREN’T.
I won’t support Hillary after Kyl/Lieberman, which Cheney will use to attack Iran.
Hillary = Lieberman with a fake laugh
I won’t support Obama since he hired a closet case spokesqueer to SPIT ON our entire community.
Obama = Alan Keyes only taller
Hell if I wanted a candidate with a closet case spokesqueer I’d support Mittler (Larry Craig) or McCain ( Bob BJ Allen.)
Edwards is OK on gay issues, and his wife and daughter support marriage equality. ANY other candidate’s families say that?
ProfessorVP
Can I remind everyone that Opie also voted for the inevitable 2003 invasion in 2002? At least he says he’s sorry. Yeah, like Hillary, he thought Bush/Cheney/Rummy/Wolfie would win the war, and voting against it would look crappy in 2008. Could one argue that people- lots of ’em- died because of this kind of cynicism?
underbear1
It’d be a darn shame if shoppers in CD stores, accidently improperly reshelved Donnie McClurkin’s CD’s in an obscure section. Showtune section maybe?
A DARN SHAME
Bill Perdue
The primaries votes will trump all the polls but it looks as if Obama has self destructed. Clinton continues to march in lockstep with the Republicans and the christian totalitarians. Johnny Reid Edwards, on the other hand is doing all he can to distance himself from Clinton and to masquerades as the friend of labor and GLBT folks.
It won’t work. Look at his list of GLBT supporters. Bill Clinton supporters returning for another beating, business and corporate ‘leaders’, a gaggle of self-styled “leadersâ€, a rockpile of Stonewall Democratic stoneheads and a “Homeland Security Advisorâ€.
Edwards voted for the oil piracy and subsequent invasion of Iraq while he sat on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. There is no way he didn’t know Bush et al were lying.
He cosponsored Lieberman’s S.J.RES.46, the Iraq War Resolution, and voted in the full Senate to authorize the use of military force against Iraq. He justified the genocidal war which has cost over 650,000 Iraqi lives saying that “Almost no one disagrees with these basic facts: that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a menace; that he has weapons of mass destruction and that he is doing everything in his power to get nuclear weapons; that he has supported terrorists; that he is a grave threat to the region, to vital allies like Israel, and to the United States; and that he is thwarting the will of the international community and undermining the United Nations’ credibility.” Almost everybody but the President and Congress disagreed and knew it was a lie in 2002-2203.
As late as 2004 Edwards told Tim Russert that “I would have voted for the resolution knowing what I know today, because it was the right thing to do to give the president the authority to confront Saddam Hussein…I think Saddam Hussein was a very serious threat. I stand by that, and that’s why [John Kerry and I] stand behind our vote on the resolution.” By 2004 everybody but Edwards and Kerry knew it was a lie.
Edwards was a member of Clintons Dixiecrat New Democrat Coalition who voted for the anti-constitutional Paytriot Act.
After losing the 2004 election by refusing to confront the Republicans and call for an immediate and total withdrawal, giving unqualified support to GLBT, immigrant, union and minority rights Edwards went back to business and joined the Wall Street investment firm Fortress Investment Group as a senior adviser and consultant. Fortress owned a sub-prime mortgage company that foreclosed on Katrina victims, charging exorbitant fees and interest and foreclosing when their victims ran out of money. After being exposed in the press he claimed he ‘knew nothing’, took his investments and profits and ran.
He and all the Democratic candidates have records that show their real politics. During elections they endlessly repeat lies to fool the gullible. But they have a problem; the Democrats shafted ENDA and replaced it with their counterfeit toothless version. Then a startling development took place – the vast majority of GLBT activists, thinkers and leaders rejected the (mis)leadership of the Democrats and fought back. That began a process which will lead to our movement’s development of our own independent, militant voice to continue our struggle on our terms.
The candidates can lie, the shills can twist and turn and buzz all they want, but the seeds have been planted.
Leland Frances
It may be the day after Halloween, but, like Linda Blair in “The Exorcist,” Comrade Wilhelm has spun his head around backwards and is, once again, futilely projectile vomiting green bile over whatever Democrat anyone would dare consider supporting. Haven’t you people learned yet? Our Commissar will tell you what to think and do. But wait, now that we know whom he’s against, whom does he want us to vote FOR? Bitter much?
Wait, channel change, maybe it’s Billy’s Horror Picture Show. “Let’s do the Time Warp again! Let’s do the Time Warp again!” as he twirls us in another one of his Tourette’s seizures, grabbing and slapping together whatever non-facts, half-truths, and half wit accusations he can. Girlfriend, what ARE you slobbering and drooling on about? Edwards would begin troop withdrawal from Iraq immediately; all out in 18-months. Will someone get this queen a bib before a rainbow forms over his mouth?
“Then a startling development took place – the vast majority of GLBT activists, thinkers and leaders rejected the (mis)leadership of the Democrats and fought back. That began a process which will lead to our movement’s development of our own independent, militant voice to continue our struggle on our terms.”
Dream on, Jeannie, dream on!
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Bill Perdue- you are a refreshing voice among the phony liberals and pseudo-socialists in the new Democratic party. The DLC and DINO wing of the Corporatist party is acceptable to Murdoch and the Bildebergers, Carlton Group thanks to Poppa and Bill adoption, and countless corporatists who hijacked both parties and play political theatre for the sheeple.
One day the Republican party of Abraham Lincoln will take their party back from Jefferson Davis and James Dobson; while the Democratic party of FDR, JFK, and yes LBJ where civil rights and the Great Society were concerned, takes the party back from the DLC and conservative Dixiecrats who remained in the party.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
If that is not possible, then Bill, I hope that the majority of socialists merely create a third party beholding to the working class proliteriat.
Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Ah, Bill, this Leland Frances is exposed for the person that he is. Phony monikers and all. He should just attend his next HRC cocktail party and get his wardrobe ready for the next circuit party.
I am a Canadian with a dual national spouse and child and will continue to express my thoughts on his blog, despite the different incarnations of that queen.
Bill Perdue
Frances masks his identity because he’s lost it – his politics are bankrupt. His campaign against ENDA and for the bogus Democrat version isolated him – he’ll never live it down.
So who’s the liar in this exchange on Democrats and their paytriotic loyalty to Bush’s war.
According to the Pew Research Center Report “Dems Debate Iraq Withdrawal Timetable†by Richard Auxier September 27, 2007 “Iraq emerged as a central issue in Wednesday’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire. Tim Russert, who moderated, brought a new angle to the discussion by asking the candidates if they could pledge that by 2013 — the end of their first term as president — there would be no U.S. troops left in Iraq.â€
“Russert’s question first went to Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who would not make the pledge to have all troops removed by 2013. “I believe that we should have all our troops out by 2013,” said Obama, “but I don’t want to make promises not knowing what the situation’s going to be three or four years out.”
“Senator Hillary Clinton of New York also would not pledge to have all troops removed. “Well, Tim, it is my goal to have all troops out by the end of my first term,” said Clinton, who agreed with Obama that it would be difficult to make such a pledge without knowing what she would inherit as president in 2009.“
“Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards said, “I would have our combat troops out of Iraq over a period of several months, and I would not continue combat missions in Iraq.” He would not, though, commit to the 2013 pledge.â€
Was Edwards lying then or later or before. If he forecloses on Katrina victims is he likely to give us a break on the war? Only a dummy would say yes.
The goal of the oil war is to secure oil, and everybody but a few dummies get that. The oil war is far from settled, which is why over 650,000 Iraqis died and continue dying in large numbers. Unless the insurgents decisively defeat the US colonial military and the quisling Sunni and Shiite forces before the next election, and it seems very unlikely that they will, whoever wins will be keeping US troops there for years. Clinton, Obama and Edwards acknowledged that in their comments.
It takes a real dummy not to see it.