Comments on: Obama Reaches Out to Gay Blogosphere http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:33:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tallskin http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130550 Tallskin Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:48:29 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130550 Hey QUEERTY, if you're being read in the white house then HOW ABOUT MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS??? I don't mean about civilised and safe old Yerp, I mean about the ghastly homophobic hell holes around the world. Like: Uganda, Burundi.Nigeria - in fact anywhere nasty and anti gay in Africa. India the muslim world in its entire nastiness. etc etc Hey QUEERTY, if you’re being read in the white house then HOW ABOUT MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS??? I don’t mean about civilised and safe old Yerp, I mean about the ghastly homophobic hell holes around the world.

Like:

Uganda, Burundi.Nigeria – in fact anywhere nasty and anti gay in Africa.

India

the muslim world in its entire nastiness.

etc etc

]]> By: Landon Bryce http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130471 Landon Bryce Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:36:22 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130471 Of course you do. Because being read by someone in the White House would mean a lot more to you than accurately covering what is happening there. That was my point. Thanks for proving it yet again. Of course you do. Because being read by someone in the White House would mean a lot more to you than accurately covering what is happening there. That was my point. Thanks for proving it yet again.

]]> By: Sebbe http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130466 Sebbe Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:33:11 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130466 @Japhy - Maybe the "THE NEWS-TRACKING TEAM" is? http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/03/obama-portfolio200903?slide=9#globalNav BTW - How awesome a job is that. They make shit for money, but still a pretty cool job. @Japhy – Maybe the “THE NEWS-TRACKING TEAM” is?

http://www.vanityfair.com/poli.....#globalNav

BTW – How awesome a job is that. They make shit for money, but still a pretty cool job.

]]> By: Japhy Grant http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130464 Japhy Grant Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:29:17 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130464 @<a href="#comment-130450" rel="nofollow">Landon Bryce</a>: I like how your comment implies that the White House is following what we write n Queerty. @Landon Bryce: I like how your comment implies that the White House is following what we write n Queerty.

]]> By: Landon Bryce http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130450 Landon Bryce Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:02:49 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130450 And, Japhy, I think we see the results of this in the willingness of the gay press and major blogs to toe the Obama line. Glad you're enjoying your access. The rest of us aren't that thrilled that you're being completely uncritical in order to get it. How does it feel to be the HRC? And, Japhy, I think we see the results of this in the willingness of the gay press and major blogs to toe the Obama line. Glad you’re enjoying your access. The rest of us aren’t that thrilled that you’re being completely uncritical in order to get it. How does it feel to be the HRC?

]]> By: KDF http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130449 KDF Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:02:33 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130449 Better than Bush, for sure. Slicker than Clinton, difficult though it may be to believe. Still, if the headline was "President/WH seeks intervenor status if CA case to overturn Prop 8", then it would be change to believe in. The rest is easy words, that cost nothing like the heat the Clinton took when he tried to take on the military. For now, I remain sceptical of "Donny McClurkin" Obama. KDF, MI Better than Bush, for sure. Slicker than Clinton, difficult though it may be to believe.

Still, if the headline was “President/WH seeks intervenor status if CA case to overturn Prop 8″, then it would be change to believe in.

The rest is easy words, that cost nothing like the heat the Clinton took when he tried to take on the military.

For now, I remain sceptical of “Donny McClurkin” Obama.

KDF, MI

]]> By: bobito http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130435 bobito Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:11:41 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130435 @<a href="#comment-130427" rel="nofollow">Brian Miller</a>: and yet, it's the best we've received from any Presidential administration so far... We've got a damn long way to go, but we might actually be closer to having a chance of getting there. @Brian Miller: and yet, it’s the best we’ve received from any Presidential administration so far… We’ve got a damn long way to go, but we might actually be closer to having a chance of getting there.

]]> By: Brian Miller http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130427 Brian Miller Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:01:04 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130427 $600+ million in LGBT contributions to the Democrats, along with over 100 million votes in that time, and all we get are some largely irrelevant press releases? Some "return on investment." $600+ million in LGBT contributions to the Democrats, along with over 100 million votes in that time, and all we get are some largely irrelevant press releases? Some “return on investment.”

]]> By: Sebbe http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130368 Sebbe Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:10:24 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130368 @Tallskin - Just as many of us on the US side of the pond are just as amazed and in disbelief every time we here him speak. Cheers @Tallskin – Just as many of us on the US side of the pond are just as amazed and in disbelief every time we here him speak.

Cheers

]]> By: Tallskin http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130366 Tallskin Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:04:02 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130366 /////but we're still sort of continually shocked to have a President so in touch with reality. Not only that, but from this side of the pond we're all still staggered that you now have a president who can actually string a fucking sentence together! I just can't just get used to it!!! /////but we’re still sort of continually shocked to have a President so in touch with reality.

Not only that, but from this side of the pond we’re all still staggered that you now have a president who can actually string a fucking sentence together!

I just can’t just get used to it!!!

]]> By: Chitown Kev http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130353 Chitown Kev Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:39:00 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130353 He's doing more than that. The Chicago papers have reported that a White House aide is making phone calls and contacts to secure support for the civil unions bill going through the Illinois General Assembly. Yes, it is quieter than I would like it to be and it is not even close to what I think of as the "fierce advocate on gay issues" that Obama said he would be. But it's a lot better than the Bush years. Having watched Obama for years, he does have a tendency to move in a stealth-like manner that can be really nerve-wracking. But, by and large, it is effective. He’s doing more than that.

The Chicago papers have reported that a White House aide is making phone calls and contacts to secure support for the civil unions bill going through the Illinois General Assembly. Yes, it is quieter than I would like it to be and it is not even close to what I think of as the “fierce advocate on gay issues” that Obama said he would be. But it’s a lot better than the Bush years.

Having watched Obama for years, he does have a tendency to move in a stealth-like manner that can be really nerve-wracking. But, by and large, it is effective.

]]> By: Sebbe http://www.queerty.com/obama-reaches-out-to-gay-blogosphere-20090309/#comment-130348 Sebbe Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:32:02 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=43414#comment-130348 That is change I can believe in. That is change I can believe in.

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