Barack’s policies are identical to George W’s … but when Barry wire taps they’re gonna love it!

What a community!

Barack laughs all the way to the White House while gays can’t figure out whether he’s a liar or not.

If anyone is waiting for DADT, I say get some chips and stay awhile, cause you’re going to be waiting a loooong loooong time.

Suggested keywords: Bishop Robinson, bishops praying for obama, gay bishop, Gene Robinson, HBO, inaugural celebration, inauguration events, Obama inauguration

I voted for Obama, as I know that sexual minorities will suffer far worse at the hands of the GOP. That said, I have never had any illusions about the Democrats who seemingly lack any sort of central directive, especially when it come to the rights of women and men with alternative sexual desire.

Didn’t someone mention on here that they actually form a small percentage of the population?”

No point in getting cocky over this J from E. Not only do the religious nut jobs on the right not only form a much larger percentage of the population than gay people, they even outnumber African Americans by 2 to 1.

This is a very bad sign. I am devastated to learn that Obama is so shallow and cowardly.

I never would have thought he would be capable of this. There was nothing at risk, and he did it anyway. This reveals his true motivations in a way we have not seen before.

I was prepared for disappointments when there was controversy. But I am truly devastated that Obama now has raped us on his own volition.

Barack Hussein Obama is planning to rape us again tomorrow. He has been planning for months to rape us tomorrow.

I cannot believe what we have learned today.

Barack Obama has raped us. And he plans to rape us again.

What we already know though, is that he raped us. No matter what else he does or does not do for justice, peace, the environment.

Barack Obama raped us yesterday.

I can’t believe he did this. It is incredibly shallow. There was no need to rape us, and he went ahead and did it anyway.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

It’s disingenuous for Obama’s hard-line supporters to demand he be exempt from criticism and critique prior to taking office, especially since I’m sure a few of them were on the sidelines eight years ago. In fact, Obama is not being critiqued on issues on which he has yet to take action, and which he cannot truly address until he assumes office: the economy, the middle east, Russia and Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, et al. No, Obama is being criticized for actions he has taken, which are fully within his control and direction. The Rick Warren initiation was a mistake – I’m sorry but when even the mainstream media is saying you made a boo-boo, I don’t know how he can spin it in his favor.

Inviting Bishop Robinson, which Obama’s team says was done weeks ago, but curiously didn’t surface after mainstream uproar over Warren, was seen by some as a pacifying gesture to the GLUT population. To turn around and have the transition team tell HBO to place him in the pre-show and not broadcast him was poor judgment. To make his such a low-priority figure that they didn’t even ensure he was given a working microphone speaks volumes.

Do I think he was put in the pre-show deliberately to avoid controversy in the nationwide broadcast? We can’t know for sure, but I’d say that that was not an unreasonable supposition. I don’t think you have to tread into paranoid territory to give the suspicious credence.

Do I think his microphone was cut off deliberately? Not really, though I wouldn’t put it past some individual screwed-up soul to have engaged in a small bit of sabotage to gratify their own little feeling of power. Who knows, maybe there’s a homophobic sound check guy chuckling in his beer – but I would doubt Obama’s team had anything to do with it.

Lastly, I’m really amazed at the racism I see in this thread – and you might notice that the bulk of it seems to be directed towards posters who Obama’s supporters have concluded are white. “De-register from the kkk, they don’t want you either”, “a bunch of ungrateful self important (mainly white) gays,” “All whites are so racialist.”

Maybe I’m not surprised – it’s just a continuation of the last 18 months where it seemed you could not raise any concern or criticism of Obama without being instantly tried and convicted of racism. I started our pro-Obama, but when I couldn’t even raise legitimate issues, like my slight concern about his level of experience, without being vilified, I knew this wasn’t going to turn out as rosy as I had hoped.

Boris, I’m sure you believe you are RIGHT (eous) but if you gave more examples of your very un moveable opinions…people would not call you racist..

Tell is about all the last opinions you’ve had one other pres who’ve NOT been in power yet…

Please…

The way you talk or write you make it seem like this happened before…

Or not?

Again answer this question.

Is Obama the worst president to have ever existed? Before he even went into power?

If yes.

Start YOUR group!

That only proves the point: we and our experences are expendable. After we’ve donated to their campaigns, they couldn’t care less.

Obama or Democratic Party will never get a dime from me.

And the rest of America is included into “We are the One”. It’s us who are out. No wonder they are celebrating, thay have a reason to. We do not.

And your accusations of me being racist tell more about you than they tell about me. You know nothing of me, not even the color of my skin. But that doesn’t prevent you from hurling them. And YOU call others bigots?

However much you scream, the facts are the same. Obama transition team has made choices, they have acted, they have made decisions. And I am critisizing those decisions. If you see that as racism, the loss is all yours.

Go on and celebrate with the “rest of them”, knowing that you are not really part of them, are you? No wonder US gay movement gets no results, they’re too busy giving “vanguard awards” to Jennifer Anistons of this world and lapping up empty rhetoric.

You have been excluded, you just choose not to see it.

Thats not true in the sense that many liberals are anti homophobia!

Seriously!

Gays need to believe in themselves, they CAN’T win.

This is why Thatchell is soo effective. He is smart. WON’T take bullshit and will always protest.

His intellectual brilliance and PRIDE to be GAY is what SCARES people.

Damn, there is no strategy to read up. It’s about how you wish people to judge you.

As a black man in a really white British society, I learnt the hard way and I’m not going to lie to you, I genuinely have a really high self esteem of my being black and gay.

I didn’t always.

But I learnt and read a helluva lot….I refuse to be someone’s ‘victim’.

Didn’t someone mention on here that they actually form a small percentage of the population?”

Small yes. But two or three times as many of them as there are of us.

Sorry, I’m pretty angry, yeah.

Obama could publicly apologize and state his support for equal rights for gay people including marriage. This would be the minimum expected of any leader in the civilized world. But likely? Doubtful.

I can’t believe I’m having to say that Obama does not meet the minimum criteria for a basic enlightened human being.

So as an alternative, the entertainers who Obama lied to by telling them that this was the “WE ARE ONE” concert should let him know that they do not appreciate being used.

Bono, Springsteen, Latifah, Hanks, Wonder and all the rest of you. If you agree with gay people being kicked in the teeth as the literal opening act of this administration, do nothing. Otherwise, tell Obama he lied to you and to us, and you do not like it.

This nation has a multitude of socio-economic problems brought on by 8 years of Bush. The man isn’t even President yet and he’s already being criticized for things that are attributed to him without any proof that it is HIS fault that HBO broadcast this and not that. I’m happy to see Obama’s skill at taking on so many issues at once, and I’m not going to have, or tolerate, a temper tantrum because some bishop wasn’t broadcast on television.

Not sure if you know of Peter Thatchell but he is British gay and human rights campaigner, who has done a HUGE amount towards changing attitudes about Gays in the UK and getting more rights.

He wrote this open letter to Barack Obama and gulp, he didn’t mention the gays…is that could be because the world is falling apart and we need Obama somewhere else?

“Dear President Barack Obama,

Congratulations on the occasion of your inauguration.

On this special day, the hopes of billions of people across our precious planet are vested in your presidency. They look to you to show practical and moral leadership in resolving the great challenges that face humanity.

You have a historic opportunity to give new expression to the United State’s founding ideals of liberty, justice and equality, by defending and protecting human rights, in the US and worldwide.

There are many new policies you can initiate, at relatively little cost, which will greatly extend the realm of justice and freedom and rebuild the moral stature of the US across the globe:

Propose a new UN International Human Rights Convention, enforceable worldwide.

Recognise and support the International Criminal Court, to bring to justice the perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Instruct the State Department to compile a Global Index of Human Rights, measuring the record and ranking of every country on key human rights issues. Raise abuses of these rights in the UN and with offending states, such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Israel, China, Sudan, Uganda, Iran, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burma, Afghanistan, Russia, Iraq and Sri Lanka.

Make US foreign aid conditional on countries achieving significant progress towards upholding human rights.”

http://www.hurryupharry.org/20.....ack-obama/

What makes you think I am white, BTW?. Your own prejudice, perhaps?

You know nothing of meor my background or the history of me and my family.

But what we all know is that Robinson got snubbed because of the Obama inauguration team. We know that Obama invited christian fascist Warren to pray at inauguration (have you ever bothered to find out what Warren’s AIDS work in Africa actually does to African gays? What kind of people Warren has aligned himself with? have you any idea what kind of oppression black gays face in Africa, thanks to Warren and his ilk?).

You very freely accuse me of racism. The accusation says ore about you than it says about me. After all, I am judging the man (Obama) and his transition team based on his actions. Not based on his skin color. Like you do.

You’re showing long term effects for the gays! Bearcub won’t like that!

Boy is HE a dog with a bone!

I told you we WON’T know the answer to your question….we need to keep on throwing information around..

But who is on this site???

Everyone is just blaming Obama. Can you not see they actually don’t care that YOU care to seek the truth?

@bearcub: @Boris H:

I think a few of you could be powerful and instead of moaning about how bad Obama is, why don’t you start an Obama hate group?

‘Kill that lying n*gga!’ maybe?

Like I said, he tried he failed and now you and the rest of the white gay population think he is worse then scum.

We get that.

Now stop being pussies. Start this group that I’m sure Queerty would support. Gain movement AND the more loud you are the more they will here you.

I even have an idea. White supremicists hate blacks more then they hate gays-I think.

Why don’t some of you try and get together with them to plot to get rid of the most evil man ‘Obama’ that walked the earth?

That way we can have Bidden or maybe be Hilz can get a shoe in? She made no promises and never mentioned gays in her speeches, never spoke to an anti-gay black/white church, so at least that way she want make you all so angry?

I truly think this is doable.

OR just keep going on, and on and on and on and on during Queert posts regarding Oabama.

Do nothing.

The event We Are One had barely finished the footage of Marion Anderson being told she couldn’t sing by the Daughters of the American Revolution…and they silenced Bishop Robinson.

for a little Historical footnote….NOBODY remembers any of the names of those Daughters of the American Revolution, and Marion Anderson is LEGENDARY.
and Rosa Parks is LEGENDARY.

Maybe in 50 years the story of this Inaugural won’t be Bono, or Warren, or Beyonce…maybe it’ll be Bishop Eugene Robinson.
History is funny that way

Here is an article about the owner of the Daily Kos, Obama apologist and homophobe. It makes interesting reading.

http://garychapelhill.wordpres.....l-jackass/

Talk is cheap and actions speak louder than words. So far we’ve got only empty rhetoric. Actions, decisions, conscientious choices brough us Warren and snubbing of Gene Robinson.

Obama Team made judgement call and once again we were kicked out of the bus. You make excuses all you want but the facts, the actions are plain to see.

To quote Dan Savage: “When you’re throwing folks a bone it’s a good idea to make sure they can, you know, see the bone.”

Ceazer: you’re free to let them walk all over you again. I choose not to. What I do know is that “We are the One” does not include me and it does not include you, however much you want it to be so.