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		<title>By: alicia banks</title>
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		<dc:creator>alicia banks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ip:

your illiteracy and lies will never protect you

i am no racist because i tell the truth about racism

but you are in deep denial about many racial truths...</description>
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<p>your illiteracy and lies will never protect you</p>
<p>i am no racist because i tell the truth about racism</p>
<p>but you are in deep denial about many racial truths&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ImperfectlyPolished</title>
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		<dc:creator>ImperfectlyPolished</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-167343&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alicia banks&lt;/a&gt;: and you&#039;re a pissy racist. Wow! you and the president have something in common, dumbass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-167343" rel="nofollow">alicia banks</a>: and you&#8217;re a pissy racist. Wow! you and the president have something in common, dumbass.</p>
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		<title>By: ImperfectlyPolished</title>
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		<dc:creator>ImperfectlyPolished</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-156518&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;InExile&lt;/a&gt;: I&#039;m down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-156518" rel="nofollow">InExile</a>: I&#8217;m down.</p>
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		<title>By: alicia banks</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-167343</link>
		<dc:creator>alicia banks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 23:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ditto china!

i loathe all of the gay doormats/obama nazis

i have never been an obama fan

and, i am prouder of that fact each day!!!

obama = a blackish fascist = gwb 2.0

and, beauty is in the eye of the beholder

his urine colored skin and emaciated puppet swagger have never impressed me...

see more:

the obama deception
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

fyi,
ab</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ditto china!</p>
<p>i loathe all of the gay doormats/obama nazis</p>
<p>i have never been an obama fan</p>
<p>and, i am prouder of that fact each day!!!</p>
<p>obama = a blackish fascist = gwb 2.0</p>
<p>and, beauty is in the eye of the beholder</p>
<p>his urine colored skin and emaciated puppet swagger have never impressed me&#8230;</p>
<p>see more:</p>
<p>the obama deception<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw</a></p>
<p>fyi,<br />
ab</p>
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		<title>By: CHINA</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-166983</link>
		<dc:creator>CHINA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ALL THE PROMISES... WHATEVER. OBAMA IS JUST AS SHADY AND WICKED AS ANY OF THE PAST PRESIDENTS.  DONT LET THAT SWEET FACE FOOL YOU JUST BECAUSE HE IS BLACK SKIN.  A BIG DECEPTION IS SOON COMING AND WE ALL GOING TO CRINGE.  THIS MAN IS GOING TO LET EVERYONE DOWN. WE ARE ALL FOOLS. THE PLASTER FAKE SMILES ALONGSIDE MICHELLE OBAMA... PLEASE...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ALL THE PROMISES&#8230; WHATEVER. OBAMA IS JUST AS SHADY AND WICKED AS ANY OF THE PAST PRESIDENTS.  DONT LET THAT SWEET FACE FOOL YOU JUST BECAUSE HE IS BLACK SKIN.  A BIG DECEPTION IS SOON COMING AND WE ALL GOING TO CRINGE.  THIS MAN IS GOING TO LET EVERYONE DOWN. WE ARE ALL FOOLS. THE PLASTER FAKE SMILES ALONGSIDE MICHELLE OBAMA&#8230; PLEASE&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: alicia banks</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-157763</link>
		<dc:creator>alicia banks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 02:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>we agree to disagree as facism by me =

a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views

i define nothing as more right wing than what bo has done

Political truths have been nullified by idolatry. Fascism and elitism have become afrocentric. Black political suicide has become patriotic. Political logic has become treason. Most &quot;journalists&quot; are Obama’s fans. Most voters are his drones. Most gays are his doormats. And, most women and men are his groupies. It is truly pathetic to witness…


Obama is a supreme, selected, and sainted agent of the New World Order. He has flagrantly bilked the poor to give to the rich.

see much more at 
OUTLOOK
http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com

peace,
ab</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>we agree to disagree as facism by me =</p>
<p>a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views</p>
<p>i define nothing as more right wing than what bo has done</p>
<p>Political truths have been nullified by idolatry. Fascism and elitism have become afrocentric. Black political suicide has become patriotic. Political logic has become treason. Most &#8220;journalists&#8221; are Obama’s fans. Most voters are his drones. Most gays are his doormats. And, most women and men are his groupies. It is truly pathetic to witness…</p>
<p>Obama is a supreme, selected, and sainted agent of the New World Order. He has flagrantly bilked the poor to give to the rich.</p>
<p>see much more at<br />
OUTLOOK<br />
<a href="http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>peace,<br />
ab</p>
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		<title>By: Bill Perdue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Perdue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157341&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;alicia banks&lt;/a&gt;: 

I agree that the twin parties have mainly cosmetic differences but Obama is not a fascist nor are the Democrats and Republicans as a whole. They&#039;re not even close. 

A fascist state is one that has militarily defeated unions and it political opponents and rules lawlessly and with an iron fist. 

Bush was certainly a rightist, a tail-wagging lap dog of the rich and a warmonger. So is Obama but neither are fascists.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-157341" rel="nofollow">alicia banks</a>: </p>
<p>I agree that the twin parties have mainly cosmetic differences but Obama is not a fascist nor are the Democrats and Republicans as a whole. They&#8217;re not even close. </p>
<p>A fascist state is one that has militarily defeated unions and it political opponents and rules lawlessly and with an iron fist. </p>
<p>Bush was certainly a rightist, a tail-wagging lap dog of the rich and a warmonger. So is Obama but neither are fascists.</p>
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		<title>By: alicia banks</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-157341</link>
		<dc:creator>alicia banks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 15:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>because obama is merely a blackish-faced clone of george w. bush!

he is unmasking his true agendas slowly each day

&quot;republican&quot; &amp; &quot;democrat&quot; are INCREASINGLY distinctions without differences

when will america awaken from this one sided honeymoon with this
fascist redux?????

see more:
THE OBAMA DECEPTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

fyi
ab</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>because obama is merely a blackish-faced clone of george w. bush!</p>
<p>he is unmasking his true agendas slowly each day</p>
<p>&#8220;republican&#8221; &amp; &#8220;democrat&#8221; are INCREASINGLY distinctions without differences</p>
<p>when will america awaken from this one sided honeymoon with this<br />
fascist redux?????</p>
<p>see more:<br />
THE OBAMA DECEPTION<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw</a></p>
<p>fyi<br />
ab</p>
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		<title>By: POGO People</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-157163</link>
		<dc:creator>POGO People</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 17:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One group that is arguably prosecuted more than gays and lesbians - also had President Obama&#039;s promises to them removed from WhiteHouse.gov

http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2009/01/whistleblower-protection-language-goes-missing-from-white-house-website.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One group that is arguably prosecuted more than gays and lesbians &#8211; also had President Obama&#8217;s promises to them removed from WhiteHouse.gov</p>
<p><a href="http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2009/01/whistleblower-protection-language-goes-missing-from-white-house-website.html" rel="nofollow">http://pogoblog.typepad.com/po.....bsite.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: fem in the city</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-157162</link>
		<dc:creator>fem in the city</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157118&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stitch&lt;/a&gt;: The consistant whining is from Obots because they have a stroke anytime you express anything but religious fanatical idol worship for him. This is a free country, we are allowed to express valid disappointment in his treatment of LGBTQ without having Obots overly emotional knee-jerk far left wing irrational wingnut flamers. That small part of the LGBTQ who do not care about thier civil rights and that&#039;s fine for them, some of us still do and must hold him accountable for his promises. This is not China. It is still America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-157118" rel="nofollow">Stitch</a>: The consistant whining is from Obots because they have a stroke anytime you express anything but religious fanatical idol worship for him. This is a free country, we are allowed to express valid disappointment in his treatment of LGBTQ without having Obots overly emotional knee-jerk far left wing irrational wingnut flamers. That small part of the LGBTQ who do not care about thier civil rights and that&#8217;s fine for them, some of us still do and must hold him accountable for his promises. This is not China. It is still America.</p>
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		<title>By: fem in the city</title>
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		<dc:creator>fem in the city</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 16:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody is buying that race stuff anymore. It&#039;s so overused no one even responds to it anymore because no one even takes it seriously. Anyone who doesn&#039;t worship BO has been accused or racsim I mean it&#039;s so pathetic and it only hurts him even more. They pull the race card whenever they want you to shut you up it&#039;s so predictable ... all because they&#039;re threatened that you&#039;re going to take away thier My Little Obama Pony fantasy ...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_rIAkb_v8</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody is buying that race stuff anymore. It&#8217;s so overused no one even responds to it anymore because no one even takes it seriously. Anyone who doesn&#8217;t worship BO has been accused or racsim I mean it&#8217;s so pathetic and it only hurts him even more. They pull the race card whenever they want you to shut you up it&#8217;s so predictable &#8230; all because they&#8217;re threatened that you&#8217;re going to take away thier My Little Obama Pony fantasy &#8230;</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_rIAkb_v8" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_rIAkb_v8</a></p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-157124</link>
		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 04:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157122&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mister C&lt;/a&gt;: You may not be racist in your personal life.  In your blog comments on Clinton and Obama you have been consistently racist in that you have blamed ALL criticism of Obama on racism and Clinton bias.  You have not allowed in the past that any criticism of his shitty treatment of gays could be motivated by anything other than the evil biases of the critic. You are also changing your tune a little as events force you to, but you continue to attack people for having priorities different from your own.  

I was disgusted with the racism displayed by much of the gay community in the aftermath of Prop 8 and agree that it shows the gay community has huge work to do in fighting racism. The events leading up to and following the 2008 election also prove that the African American community has a huge problem with bigotry against gay people, something I have yet to see you admit.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-157122" rel="nofollow">Mister C</a>: You may not be racist in your personal life.  In your blog comments on Clinton and Obama you have been consistently racist in that you have blamed ALL criticism of Obama on racism and Clinton bias.  You have not allowed in the past that any criticism of his shitty treatment of gays could be motivated by anything other than the evil biases of the critic. You are also changing your tune a little as events force you to, but you continue to attack people for having priorities different from your own.  </p>
<p>I was disgusted with the racism displayed by much of the gay community in the aftermath of Prop 8 and agree that it shows the gay community has huge work to do in fighting racism. The events leading up to and following the 2008 election also prove that the African American community has a huge problem with bigotry against gay people, something I have yet to see you admit.</p>
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		<title>By: Mister C</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mister C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 03:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To Lee and Landon Bryce,

First to Lee Get the FUCKING SHIT STRAIGHT MADAM. THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAKE THE LAWS THE PRESIDENT SIGNS THEM INTO LAW. SO MAYBE you don&#039;t know your ass from a hole in the ground Miss Baby. Powerful whatever they still make the laws!!!!!! He can only propose and then sign REMEMBER THAT!

@ Landon Bryce as for this statement: You continue to attack blindly and insanely because your racism makes it impossible to see that your hero doesn&#039;t care about you. Much better to attack the people who point out the truth than to try to see the truth.

UMMMMM My dear I am not RACIST. I am partnered to a Caucasian Male so I find that statement truly bogus. I&#039;ve never attacked anyone blindly. And my HERO is my &lt;strong&gt;mother&lt;/strong&gt; and NOT &lt;strong&gt;Barack&lt;/strong&gt; for the record.
 
I&#039;ve always attacked those who made racially motivated comments about Obama because of their anger of Clinton who did not get the nomination. OKAY SO DON&#039;T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. 
Go back and research some threads on here before you accuse me of that. Fuck the intellect this is a BLOG and I&#039;m keeping it real!

Bottom line Queerty knows exactly how to move anger with these threads on here. And as far as the equality issue is. I never said he&#039;s perfect. But it&#039;s 100 days and things are still moving. Okay he&#039;s not fooling me at all. As much as I want Marriage equality for all of us. It&#039;s not the #1 thing on my radar.

As far as ME Chris (Mister C) is concerned. I&#039;m Black then Gay that&#039;s the priority with me and I&#039;m not concerned how &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; feel about that. And if you dont think we don&#039;t have issues in this community the day after the election with the whole Prop 8 issue. Blew the cover off the lid. So that&#039;s no secret anymore. The Gay Community has MAJOR issues it needs to combat!

So is Obama who maybe someone else&#039;s hero perfect? HELL NO. But to think every time something is not mentioned all this negativity and anger is like WHOA! Because when he does do something for our community folks will NOT be satisfied and they will look for a new complaint to rise up with! But I&#039;m patient regardless of what. Gays loved the Clinton&#039;s inspite of DADT,and DOMA. And they still loved Hillary and still do!

So as for my original comment IT IS WHAT IT IS!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Lee and Landon Bryce,</p>
<p>First to Lee Get the FUCKING SHIT STRAIGHT MADAM. THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MAKE THE LAWS THE PRESIDENT SIGNS THEM INTO LAW. SO MAYBE you don&#8217;t know your ass from a hole in the ground Miss Baby. Powerful whatever they still make the laws!!!!!! He can only propose and then sign REMEMBER THAT!</p>
<p>@ Landon Bryce as for this statement: You continue to attack blindly and insanely because your racism makes it impossible to see that your hero doesn&#8217;t care about you. Much better to attack the people who point out the truth than to try to see the truth.</p>
<p>UMMMMM My dear I am not RACIST. I am partnered to a Caucasian Male so I find that statement truly bogus. I&#8217;ve never attacked anyone blindly. And my HERO is my <strong>mother</strong> and NOT <strong>Barack</strong> for the record.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve always attacked those who made racially motivated comments about Obama because of their anger of Clinton who did not get the nomination. OKAY SO DON&#8217;T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH.<br />
Go back and research some threads on here before you accuse me of that. Fuck the intellect this is a BLOG and I&#8217;m keeping it real!</p>
<p>Bottom line Queerty knows exactly how to move anger with these threads on here. And as far as the equality issue is. I never said he&#8217;s perfect. But it&#8217;s 100 days and things are still moving. Okay he&#8217;s not fooling me at all. As much as I want Marriage equality for all of us. It&#8217;s not the #1 thing on my radar.</p>
<p>As far as ME Chris (Mister C) is concerned. I&#8217;m Black then Gay that&#8217;s the priority with me and I&#8217;m not concerned how <strong>YOU</strong> feel about that. And if you dont think we don&#8217;t have issues in this community the day after the election with the whole Prop 8 issue. Blew the cover off the lid. So that&#8217;s no secret anymore. The Gay Community has MAJOR issues it needs to combat!</p>
<p>So is Obama who maybe someone else&#8217;s hero perfect? HELL NO. But to think every time something is not mentioned all this negativity and anger is like WHOA! Because when he does do something for our community folks will NOT be satisfied and they will look for a new complaint to rise up with! But I&#8217;m patient regardless of what. Gays loved the Clinton&#8217;s inspite of DADT,and DOMA. And they still loved Hillary and still do!</p>
<p>So as for my original comment IT IS WHAT IT IS!</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
		<link>http://www.queerty.com/why-is-obama-deleting-his-gay-rights-support-from-the-white-house-homepage-20090501/#comment-157120</link>
		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 02:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157118&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Stitch&lt;/a&gt;: I wonder if you followed the whole story.  The initial changes removed all but two of the original commitments to LGBT people.  People whined.  Pro-LGBT lngauge returned but included an alteration from &quot;repealing&quot; DADT to &quot;changing&quot; it.  People whined.  The language was changed back to &quot;repealing.&quot;

Where would we be if all followed your advice and didn&#039;t whine?

I hope we never find out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-157118" rel="nofollow">Stitch</a>: I wonder if you followed the whole story.  The initial changes removed all but two of the original commitments to LGBT people.  People whined.  Pro-LGBT lngauge returned but included an alteration from &#8220;repealing&#8221; DADT to &#8220;changing&#8221; it.  People whined.  The language was changed back to &#8220;repealing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Where would we be if all followed your advice and didn&#8217;t whine?</p>
<p>I hope we never find out.</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 02:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157116&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: 

I do not doubt, Kev, that some prominent African American leaders would say that Obama shows as much knowledge of and sympathy for gay people as he does for African American people.  Most sane people, however, and especially most sane African American leaders, would laugh at them.  Don&#039;t you think?

Appropriating Judaism is an intrinsic part of African American culture, not unique to Obama.  The slavery link is why AAs are still primarily members of a church that helped to enslave them. If some Black Joseph Smith had come up with an African Jewish cult in Reconstruction, I think it could have taken off. I don&#039;t trust anyone who thinks God loves him better than anyone else.  That goes for Blacks and Jews and Mormons and people with autism and Larry Kramer.  I understand why we all need to feel that way, but we&#039;re wrong.  We can&#039;t help putting ourselves in the center of the universe: it&#039;s when we tell ourselves that we are right to do so that our religious beliefs become dangerous.

Your perspective here is fascinating and helpful, though.  It&#039;s the one place since the election where I&#039;ve found comparing the black and gay experiences illuminating rather than incendiary: why we both have reason to be pissed at Barack.   

Snow Queen or Stokley, Uncle Tom or Terrorist--  you know how much I value your opinions and your words.  Wish I could send balm for that thin but beautiful skin--</description>
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<p>I do not doubt, Kev, that some prominent African American leaders would say that Obama shows as much knowledge of and sympathy for gay people as he does for African American people.  Most sane people, however, and especially most sane African American leaders, would laugh at them.  Don&#8217;t you think?</p>
<p>Appropriating Judaism is an intrinsic part of African American culture, not unique to Obama.  The slavery link is why AAs are still primarily members of a church that helped to enslave them. If some Black Joseph Smith had come up with an African Jewish cult in Reconstruction, I think it could have taken off. I don&#8217;t trust anyone who thinks God loves him better than anyone else.  That goes for Blacks and Jews and Mormons and people with autism and Larry Kramer.  I understand why we all need to feel that way, but we&#8217;re wrong.  We can&#8217;t help putting ourselves in the center of the universe: it&#8217;s when we tell ourselves that we are right to do so that our religious beliefs become dangerous.</p>
<p>Your perspective here is fascinating and helpful, though.  It&#8217;s the one place since the election where I&#8217;ve found comparing the black and gay experiences illuminating rather than incendiary: why we both have reason to be pissed at Barack.   </p>
<p>Snow Queen or Stokley, Uncle Tom or Terrorist&#8211;  you know how much I value your opinions and your words.  Wish I could send balm for that thin but beautiful skin&#8211;</p>
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		<title>By: Stitch</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 02:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you all think that Obama was elected president of the Gays?  Honestly, reading these comments, I&#039;ve come to the conclusion that you all must be either deaf to your own ignorance or so self-involved that you actually believe that you should be somehow offended by the politicking of a major party leader.  

Fact is, if you expected that Obama&#039;s inauguration would lead to a giant foam party orgy of gay rights, you were deluding yourself.  Don&#039;t blame him.  

He&#039;s doing his best to fix a MASSIVELY broken country.  Our alternative was a million-year-old &quot;moderate&quot; republican bigot and a dumb ass with a 5th rate education from Moose U.  

Give the man some credit, keep pushing for our rights in positive ways, and for Pete&#039;s sake, STOP WHINING!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you all think that Obama was elected president of the Gays?  Honestly, reading these comments, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that you all must be either deaf to your own ignorance or so self-involved that you actually believe that you should be somehow offended by the politicking of a major party leader.  </p>
<p>Fact is, if you expected that Obama&#8217;s inauguration would lead to a giant foam party orgy of gay rights, you were deluding yourself.  Don&#8217;t blame him.  </p>
<p>He&#8217;s doing his best to fix a MASSIVELY broken country.  Our alternative was a million-year-old &#8220;moderate&#8221; republican bigot and a dumb ass with a 5th rate education from Moose U.  </p>
<p>Give the man some credit, keep pushing for our rights in positive ways, and for Pete&#8217;s sake, STOP WHINING!</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 02:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157113&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Landon Bryce&lt;/a&gt;: 

Some African Americans (including some very prominent ones) would disagree with you. 

I think Barack Obama understands as well as anyone what it&#039;s like to be an outsider and an outcast in many different ways, including in his &quot;own community&quot; (whatever that is). 

The sense of always wandering, never having a home, for example. Obama identifies with and understands very much with the cultural Jewish experience. 

I could very well do poststructuralist/queer theoretical/literary theory route and queer Obama up really easily. 
 
(He made people just as pissed of at the Harvard Law Review if I remember correctly).

The thing is most people are so used to putting people into a box (black, white, Jewish, etc.) Barack Obama refuses to allow himself to be placed in a box. Or rather, he fits into too many boxes. Personally, it&#039;s why I&#039;ve always liked the man (though I haven&#039;t liked ever ything he has done or not done as Senator and President)

Even on these Queerty threads, it seems like some of the more racist queens act as if I&#039;m the second coming of Stokley Charmichael on occasion. Some of the black queens think I&#039;m a snow queen or an Uncle Tom or something like that. 

I&#039;m used to that. Although I don&#039;t quite have as thick of a skin as Barack Obama does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-157113" rel="nofollow">Landon Bryce</a>: </p>
<p>Some African Americans (including some very prominent ones) would disagree with you. </p>
<p>I think Barack Obama understands as well as anyone what it&#8217;s like to be an outsider and an outcast in many different ways, including in his &#8220;own community&#8221; (whatever that is). </p>
<p>The sense of always wandering, never having a home, for example. Obama identifies with and understands very much with the cultural Jewish experience. </p>
<p>I could very well do poststructuralist/queer theoretical/literary theory route and queer Obama up really easily. </p>
<p>(He made people just as pissed of at the Harvard Law Review if I remember correctly).</p>
<p>The thing is most people are so used to putting people into a box (black, white, Jewish, etc.) Barack Obama refuses to allow himself to be placed in a box. Or rather, he fits into too many boxes. Personally, it&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve always liked the man (though I haven&#8217;t liked ever ything he has done or not done as Senator and President)</p>
<p>Even on these Queerty threads, it seems like some of the more racist queens act as if I&#8217;m the second coming of Stokley Charmichael on occasion. Some of the black queens think I&#8217;m a snow queen or an Uncle Tom or something like that. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m used to that. Although I don&#8217;t quite have as thick of a skin as Barack Obama does.</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 01:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157111&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: 

Understood.  But irrelevant.  Does he understand what it&#039;s like to be African American?  Yes.  Does he care about the lives of African Americans and about the issues that effect them?  Yes.

Does he understand what it&#039;s like to be LGBT?  No.  Does he care about understanding that better?  No.  Does he care about the lives of LGBT Americans?  I don&#039;t know. Neither do you at this point.  

It&#039;s a very significant difference.</description>
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<p>Understood.  But irrelevant.  Does he understand what it&#8217;s like to be African American?  Yes.  Does he care about the lives of African Americans and about the issues that effect them?  Yes.</p>
<p>Does he understand what it&#8217;s like to be LGBT?  No.  Does he care about understanding that better?  No.  Does he care about the lives of LGBT Americans?  I don&#8217;t know. Neither do you at this point.  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a very significant difference.</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 01:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157109&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Landon Bryce&lt;/a&gt;: 

Who was raissed in Jakarta, Indonesia and fucking Hawaii. Barack Obama may be &quot;black&quot; but he&#039;s not &quot;African American&quot; in the traditional sense that we think of an &quot;African American.&quot; 

Sheeit, folks here thought he was &quot;uppity&quot; because he had a white mother. Folks here thought that the white man and/or the Jews were propping him, that&#039;s why he got where he is so fast. Oh, Barack Obama is just a &quot;whiteman in blackface.&quot; 

To me, it&#039;s the same thing.</description>
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<p>Who was raissed in Jakarta, Indonesia and fucking Hawaii. Barack Obama may be &#8220;black&#8221; but he&#8217;s not &#8220;African American&#8221; in the traditional sense that we think of an &#8220;African American.&#8221; </p>
<p>Sheeit, folks here thought he was &#8220;uppity&#8221; because he had a white mother. Folks here thought that the white man and/or the Jews were propping him, that&#8217;s why he got where he is so fast. Oh, Barack Obama is just a &#8220;whiteman in blackface.&#8221; </p>
<p>To me, it&#8217;s the same thing.</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 01:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157107&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: 

See, I don&#039;t know that I can get far enough past the &quot;hard working white people&quot; to trust her ever again.  And if Joe Biden&#039;s a loose cannon, imagine the damage Bill could do on swine flu or, oh, anything.  I don&#039;t want Hillary in the White House.

I think the reason for the similar comments from blacks and gays is that Obama is a centrist who inspires leftists-- so was Bill in his prime, of course.  There is, though, a significant difference: he is black, and he shows very limited empathy for and understanding of what it is like to be gay in America.</description>
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<p>See, I don&#8217;t know that I can get far enough past the &#8220;hard working white people&#8221; to trust her ever again.  And if Joe Biden&#8217;s a loose cannon, imagine the damage Bill could do on swine flu or, oh, anything.  I don&#8217;t want Hillary in the White House.</p>
<p>I think the reason for the similar comments from blacks and gays is that Obama is a centrist who inspires leftists&#8211; so was Bill in his prime, of course.  There is, though, a significant difference: he is black, and he shows very limited empathy for and understanding of what it is like to be gay in America.</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 01:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157105&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Landon Bryce&lt;/a&gt;: 

First of all, I am not joining them.

Second of all I am not trashing Hillary Clinton, I think the bitching would be almost identical if this was Hillary Clinton.

(For the record, I love me some Hillary Clinton. Granted that I really was pissed at her &quot;hard working white people&quot; comment but it is politics and verylittle surprised me about the mud that was slung. I hold no grudges about that and I hope that she d...and is our next Democratic President)

Third, and understand my POV.


This shit is funny as hell, in a way.

If you substituted &quot;African American issues&quot; for &quot;LGBT issues&quot; in many of the above posts then it really would be more or less the same shit I&#039;ve been hearing about Barack Obama for years. Good Lord, the black community in Chicago said some nasty shit about this man. The man&#039;s ability to piss folks off is amazing.</description>
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<p>First of all, I am not joining them.</p>
<p>Second of all I am not trashing Hillary Clinton, I think the bitching would be almost identical if this was Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>(For the record, I love me some Hillary Clinton. Granted that I really was pissed at her &#8220;hard working white people&#8221; comment but it is politics and verylittle surprised me about the mud that was slung. I hold no grudges about that and I hope that she d&#8230;and is our next Democratic President)</p>
<p>Third, and understand my POV.</p>
<p>This shit is funny as hell, in a way.</p>
<p>If you substituted &#8220;African American issues&#8221; for &#8220;LGBT issues&#8221; in many of the above posts then it really would be more or less the same shit I&#8217;ve been hearing about Barack Obama for years. Good Lord, the black community in Chicago said some nasty shit about this man. The man&#8217;s ability to piss folks off is amazing.</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157095&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: 

Of course, you are right about the Democratic Party, but Obama has continued the anti-gay direction of the DNC by appointing a chair who hates gay people and opposes our equality.

Trashing Clinton never makes Obama&#039;s supporters look anything but weak and bitter, though, and I wonder what your point is here.  Clinton would not have done any more for gays than Obama has on policy.  She might have appointed more out gays and lesbians and I find her communication with the LGBT community to be more comfortable.  So what?  I trust Obama more to actually get things done.  I&#039;m glad he won the election-- does anyone wish Hillary were president now? 

 It is, frankly, idiotic for bigots for Mister C and Michael W to continue to scream that the only reasons white gays criticize Obama is that they are A) racist and B) in love with Clinton.  Only people who want to deflect attention from Obama&#039;s pisspoor record on gay issues are talking about Hillary Clinton in these threads.  I am disappointed in you for joining them.</description>
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<p>Of course, you are right about the Democratic Party, but Obama has continued the anti-gay direction of the DNC by appointing a chair who hates gay people and opposes our equality.</p>
<p>Trashing Clinton never makes Obama&#8217;s supporters look anything but weak and bitter, though, and I wonder what your point is here.  Clinton would not have done any more for gays than Obama has on policy.  She might have appointed more out gays and lesbians and I find her communication with the LGBT community to be more comfortable.  So what?  I trust Obama more to actually get things done.  I&#8217;m glad he won the election&#8211; does anyone wish Hillary were president now? </p>
<p> It is, frankly, idiotic for bigots for Mister C and Michael W to continue to scream that the only reasons white gays criticize Obama is that they are A) racist and B) in love with Clinton.  Only people who want to deflect attention from Obama&#8217;s pisspoor record on gay issues are talking about Hillary Clinton in these threads.  I am disappointed in you for joining them.</p>
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		<title>By: jason</title>
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		<dc:creator>jason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t you realize what&#039;s going on?  Obama is simply a figurehead.  The real powers are his spin doctors.  His spin doctors control everything.  You&#039;ve been conned by the Democrat Party spin doctors.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t you realize what&#8217;s going on?  Obama is simply a figurehead.  The real powers are his spin doctors.  His spin doctors control everything.  You&#8217;ve been conned by the Democrat Party spin doctors.</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157097&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mark&lt;/a&gt;: 

Obama really doesn&#039;t need to do anything as regards to marriage, that&#039;s advancing on it&#039;s own accord in the various states.

Nancy Pelosi said that DOMA was not a priority but that Hate Crimes and ENDA were. Obama could use the bully pulpit a little to put his foot in Pelosi&#039;s ass, cause you know how she can be.

But...I suspect that Barack will have something to say within...oh, the next 32 days or so to our community and to the nation about our community.</description>
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<p>Obama really doesn&#8217;t need to do anything as regards to marriage, that&#8217;s advancing on it&#8217;s own accord in the various states.</p>
<p>Nancy Pelosi said that DOMA was not a priority but that Hate Crimes and ENDA were. Obama could use the bully pulpit a little to put his foot in Pelosi&#8217;s ass, cause you know how she can be.</p>
<p>But&#8230;I suspect that Barack will have something to say within&#8230;oh, the next 32 days or so to our community and to the nation about our community.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Notice!  Notice!  Notice!

Without Obama&#039;s &#039;help&#039; we&#039;re still winning in various states with regard to same-gender marriage.

Don&#039;t wait for your POTUS to do anything for you.  Talk to your local reps, state senators and those in Congress.

THEY are the mouthpieces of US, their constituents.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notice!  Notice!  Notice!</p>
<p>Without Obama&#8217;s &#8216;help&#8217; we&#8217;re still winning in various states with regard to same-gender marriage.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t wait for your POTUS to do anything for you.  Talk to your local reps, state senators and those in Congress.</p>
<p>THEY are the mouthpieces of US, their constituents.</p>
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		<title>By: Chitown Kev</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chitown Kev</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157091&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Landon Bryce&lt;/a&gt;: 

It&#039;s not simply Obama. It&#039;s the Democratic Party and, to some extent, our own organization that are answerable to our community and take our dollars.

Hillary Rodham probably would have done the same thing were she elected. Considering that her last name is Clinton, I know that they triangulate their ass off. By now, Hillary would be all kinds of bitches and cunts and we&#039;d be loving Barack. 

Strictly my opinion</description>
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<p>It&#8217;s not simply Obama. It&#8217;s the Democratic Party and, to some extent, our own organization that are answerable to our community and take our dollars.</p>
<p>Hillary Rodham probably would have done the same thing were she elected. Considering that her last name is Clinton, I know that they triangulate their ass off. By now, Hillary would be all kinds of bitches and cunts and we&#8217;d be loving Barack. </p>
<p>Strictly my opinion</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 00:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-157059&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mister C&lt;/a&gt;: 

I can see why you&#039;re having a fit, Mister C.  You, or someone with your handle, spent months before the election going batshit crazy any time anyone suggested that Obama&#039;s commitment to gay rights is tenuous at best.  Since he has been president, that has been proven to be the case.  You were wrong.  You continue to attack blindly and insanely because your racism makes it impossible to see that your hero doesn&#039;t care about you.  Much better to attack the people who point out the truth than to try to see the truth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-157059" rel="nofollow">Mister C</a>: </p>
<p>I can see why you&#8217;re having a fit, Mister C.  You, or someone with your handle, spent months before the election going batshit crazy any time anyone suggested that Obama&#8217;s commitment to gay rights is tenuous at best.  Since he has been president, that has been proven to be the case.  You were wrong.  You continue to attack blindly and insanely because your racism makes it impossible to see that your hero doesn&#8217;t care about you.  Much better to attack the people who point out the truth than to try to see the truth.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 22:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mister C, you don&#039;t know your ass from a hole in the ground.

NO ONE in the US is more powerful than Obama right now, and we are just the opposite.

It is the responsibility of the promises he made to us, including such phrases as &quot;put the full weight of my administration behind,&quot; to pressure members of Congress to pass these gay bills, repeal DADT and DOMA.

Ya think he&#039;s not saying to every Dem up for reelection next year who&#039;s dragging their feet on his economy package, &quot;If you want me to campaign for you, you&#039;d better vote the way I want&quot;?

He could and should be doing the same thing re the LGBT rights check he wrote us that has been returned for &quot;Insufficient Funds.&quot;

&quot;...I understand that the president has his hands full saving the economy. But across a broad spectrum of issues -- including women&#039;s rights, stem cell research and relations with Cuba -- the Obama administration has shown a willingness to exploit this change moment to bring about dramatic reform. So why not on gay rights? Where is our New Deal? ... President Obama will never have more political capital than he has now, and there will never be a better political environment to capitalize on.&quot;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mister C, you don&#8217;t know your ass from a hole in the ground.</p>
<p>NO ONE in the US is more powerful than Obama right now, and we are just the opposite.</p>
<p>It is the responsibility of the promises he made to us, including such phrases as &#8220;put the full weight of my administration behind,&#8221; to pressure members of Congress to pass these gay bills, repeal DADT and DOMA.</p>
<p>Ya think he&#8217;s not saying to every Dem up for reelection next year who&#8217;s dragging their feet on his economy package, &#8220;If you want me to campaign for you, you&#8217;d better vote the way I want&#8221;?</p>
<p>He could and should be doing the same thing re the LGBT rights check he wrote us that has been returned for &#8220;Insufficient Funds.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;I understand that the president has his hands full saving the economy. But across a broad spectrum of issues &#8212; including women&#8217;s rights, stem cell research and relations with Cuba &#8212; the Obama administration has shown a willingness to exploit this change moment to bring about dramatic reform. So why not on gay rights? Where is our New Deal? &#8230; President Obama will never have more political capital than he has now, and there will never be a better political environment to capitalize on.&#8221;</p>
<p>- Charles Socarides, The Washington Post, May 2, 2009</p>
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		<title>By: Mister C</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mister C</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 21:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OH QUEENS, I was quiet on this but DAMN

Here goes the girls: OH I HATE OBAMA.....I HATE OBAMA....I HATE OBAMA

The ones you need to start fucking hating and complaining to is your &lt;strong&gt;LOCAL STATE REPRESENTATIVE&lt;/strong&gt; to Congress and your &lt;strong&gt;SENATORS&lt;/strong&gt;. They are the ones with the power.......All Obama has to do is SIGN and he will!

Sometimes I just don&#039;t get it. Like Michael W says Queerty loves to bait you queens with Barack...Why??? Because most of you were Hillary supporters even though she feels the same way he does. It&#039;s acceptable for her but not for Obama.

Girl get over your personal feelings whatever they may be. Because this is all what Queerty is making you do. VENT!! 
I HATE OBAMA. But you love your caucasian Senators and Representatives who may vote against any measures for EQUALITY???? Why isn&#039;t anyone talking about them??????

Why don&#039;t you bitches give it a damn chance. Civil Rights were NOT enacted right away. It took time just like this will take time. We have things going in the right direction let the flow keep moving.

Then again since Queerty wants to bait this shit all the time then let Ms David and The Queerty staff run for office if &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; really want to see &lt;strong&gt;CHANGE&lt;/strong&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OH QUEENS, I was quiet on this but DAMN</p>
<p>Here goes the girls: OH I HATE OBAMA&#8230;..I HATE OBAMA&#8230;.I HATE OBAMA</p>
<p>The ones you need to start fucking hating and complaining to is your <strong>LOCAL STATE REPRESENTATIVE</strong> to Congress and your <strong>SENATORS</strong>. They are the ones with the power&#8230;&#8230;.All Obama has to do is SIGN and he will!</p>
<p>Sometimes I just don&#8217;t get it. Like Michael W says Queerty loves to bait you queens with Barack&#8230;Why??? Because most of you were Hillary supporters even though she feels the same way he does. It&#8217;s acceptable for her but not for Obama.</p>
<p>Girl get over your personal feelings whatever they may be. Because this is all what Queerty is making you do. VENT!!<br />
I HATE OBAMA. But you love your caucasian Senators and Representatives who may vote against any measures for EQUALITY???? Why isn&#8217;t anyone talking about them??????</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t you bitches give it a damn chance. Civil Rights were NOT enacted right away. It took time just like this will take time. We have things going in the right direction let the flow keep moving.</p>
<p>Then again since Queerty wants to bait this shit all the time then let Ms David and The Queerty staff run for office if <strong>YOU</strong> really want to see <strong>CHANGE</strong></p>
<p>Some of you Queens are really performing Arts!</p>
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		<title>By: mention</title>
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		<dc:creator>mention</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>stop hating yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>stop hating yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: TANK</title>
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		<dc:creator>TANK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-156988&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;TANK&lt;/a&gt;: 

anti democratic party, rather.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-156988" rel="nofollow">TANK</a>: </p>
<p>anti democratic party, rather.</p>
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		<title>By: TANK</title>
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		<dc:creator>TANK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-156966&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Phoenix (Displeased Political Donor)&lt;/a&gt;: 

Hear hear.  But...at the same time, you do realize that whether it be propsotion 8 or almost every other gay rights initiative, we&#039;re just responding to what the opposition has already done instead of being proactive in anticipating it.  By doing this, we lose the stategic advantage of not only throwing them off their game, but beating them to the punch as it were in doing so.  That&#039;s why, though I refuse to condemn Obama&#039;s lack of...anything for gay rights compared to the rhetoric issued before his election...but at the same time, if we wait, it will once again catch us off guard, and more than likely, we&#039;ll rally for familiarity (democratic party) falling for the same empty rhetoric.

That&#039;s why it&#039;s hard to come down on anti obama and anti democratic sentiment expressed on these blogs.  They may be ahead of the curve.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-156966" rel="nofollow">Phoenix (Displeased Political Donor)</a>: </p>
<p>Hear hear.  But&#8230;at the same time, you do realize that whether it be propsotion 8 or almost every other gay rights initiative, we&#8217;re just responding to what the opposition has already done instead of being proactive in anticipating it.  By doing this, we lose the stategic advantage of not only throwing them off their game, but beating them to the punch as it were in doing so.  That&#8217;s why, though I refuse to condemn Obama&#8217;s lack of&#8230;anything for gay rights compared to the rhetoric issued before his election&#8230;but at the same time, if we wait, it will once again catch us off guard, and more than likely, we&#8217;ll rally for familiarity (democratic party) falling for the same empty rhetoric.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s hard to come down on anti obama and anti democratic sentiment expressed on these blogs.  They may be ahead of the curve.</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To correct my last post, Andy avoided mentioning this story until he had the exculpatory statement from the White House, not until &quot;change&quot; was altered.  I apologize for my mistake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To correct my last post, Andy avoided mentioning this story until he had the exculpatory statement from the White House, not until &#8220;change&#8221; was altered.  I apologize for my mistake.</p>
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		<title>By: Phoenix (Displeased Political Donor)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Phoenix (Displeased Political Donor)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama has four years to keep his campaign promises. It&#039;s only the first 100 days. If, in four years, election day 2012 rolls around and he hasn&#039;t advanced gay rights any, then I&#039;ll be donating money to someone else, campaigning for someone else, and voting for someone else.


It&#039;s early yet, he has four years, but if he doesn&#039;t come through he&#039;s not getting my vote a second time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama has four years to keep his campaign promises. It&#8217;s only the first 100 days. If, in four years, election day 2012 rolls around and he hasn&#8217;t advanced gay rights any, then I&#8217;ll be donating money to someone else, campaigning for someone else, and voting for someone else.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s early yet, he has four years, but if he doesn&#8217;t come through he&#8217;s not getting my vote a second time.</p>
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		<title>By: Landon Bryce</title>
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		<dc:creator>Landon Bryce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-156867&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chitown Kev&lt;/a&gt;: 

Do you really think that someone is running LGBT communications at the White House?  I think a lot of the people who run communications for Obama are gay, so they don&#039;t think they need to worry about LGBT communications specifically at all.  That those gay people don&#039;t give a shit about LGBT issues and care only about annointing the feet of their messiah is the reason Obama communication with the gays is so shitty.  It&#039;s post-partisan, too, right, just like not giving interviews to gay press.

I don&#039;t think there is some gay person out there planning communication with us and doing a bad job of it.  I think Obama Inc. has yet to figure out that they are not communicating as effectively with the gay community as they are with our leaders.
The gay press has decided to give Obama a pass on everything.  So has the HRC.  Even Andy Towle, for God&#039;s sake, has become a DNC lapdog.  As irritated as I am at the reflexively anti-Obama tone here, Andy didn&#039;t cover this story until the change from &quot;change&quot; to &quot;repeal&quot; had been made.

That&#039;s seriously fucked up, and it&#039;s not the first or tenth time he has chosen to avoid covering things that would be unflattering to Obama.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-156867" rel="nofollow">Chitown Kev</a>: </p>
<p>Do you really think that someone is running LGBT communications at the White House?  I think a lot of the people who run communications for Obama are gay, so they don&#8217;t think they need to worry about LGBT communications specifically at all.  That those gay people don&#8217;t give a shit about LGBT issues and care only about annointing the feet of their messiah is the reason Obama communication with the gays is so shitty.  It&#8217;s post-partisan, too, right, just like not giving interviews to gay press.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think there is some gay person out there planning communication with us and doing a bad job of it.  I think Obama Inc. has yet to figure out that they are not communicating as effectively with the gay community as they are with our leaders.<br />
The gay press has decided to give Obama a pass on everything.  So has the HRC.  Even Andy Towle, for God&#8217;s sake, has become a DNC lapdog.  As irritated as I am at the reflexively anti-Obama tone here, Andy didn&#8217;t cover this story until the change from &#8220;change&#8221; to &#8220;repeal&#8221; had been made.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s seriously fucked up, and it&#8217;s not the first or tenth time he has chosen to avoid covering things that would be unflattering to Obama.</p>
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		<title>By: bigjake75</title>
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		<dc:creator>bigjake75</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 13:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHA another flip flop from O-bag.  check out this link.  Think he cares about &#039;human rights&#039; like he said?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/02/obama-looks-revive-military-courts-guantanamo-bay/

Now, I think this is ok. we should not bring them to the us. however, just another example of how he says one thing and does another. Ready to keep trusting him?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAHA another flip flop from O-bag.  check out this link.  Think he cares about &#8216;human rights&#8217; like he said?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/02/obama-looks-revive-military-courts-guantanamo-bay/" rel="nofollow">http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....anamo-bay/</a></p>
<p>Now, I think this is ok. we should not bring them to the us. however, just another example of how he says one thing and does another. Ready to keep trusting him?</p>
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		<title>By: The Lesbian Mafia</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Lesbian Mafia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 11:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-156504&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bill Perdue&lt;/a&gt;: 

Hear! Hear!

Bears repeating ...

*Is anyone surprised? The man’s a bigot.

And now for the Democratic apologists (sic) responses:

I. He’s a savior and you’re crucifying him. Poor, poor Obama.
II. Give him a few years.
III. It’s a technical error.
IV. We’re being tested to see if we’re worthy.
V. I can read Obama’s mind and I know, deep in my heart, that he loves us.
VI. This is all a Republican plot to embarrass the best President in the whole wide world.*


Thank goodness there is at least one respectable site holding Barack Obama responsible instead of simply getting on their knees every day and worshiping him. Trolls and flamers can&#039;t stop it so they are going to try to sour Queerty&#039;s good work and twist their intentions. Barack could take a shit in the middle of their living room and they wouldn&#039;t criticize him, they would rather criticize and flame Queerty for reporting it. 

Queerty has stepped into a new level here with their work for this post. Thank you for continuing to do the right thing. Carry on keeping us informed because we appreciate it more than words can say. 

Love, support, and respect.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@<a class="atr_link" href="#comment-156504" rel="nofollow">Bill Perdue</a>: </p>
<p>Hear! Hear!</p>
<p>Bears repeating &#8230;</p>
<p>*Is anyone surprised? The man’s a bigot.</p>
<p>And now for the Democratic apologists (sic) responses:</p>
<p>I. He’s a savior and you’re crucifying him. Poor, poor Obama.<br />
II. Give him a few years.<br />
III. It’s a technical error.<br />
IV. We’re being tested to see if we’re worthy.<br />
V. I can read Obama’s mind and I know, deep in my heart, that he loves us.<br />
VI. This is all a Republican plot to embarrass the best President in the whole wide world.*</p>
<p>Thank goodness there is at least one respectable site holding Barack Obama responsible instead of simply getting on their knees every day and worshiping him. Trolls and flamers can&#8217;t stop it so they are going to try to sour Queerty&#8217;s good work and twist their intentions. Barack could take a shit in the middle of their living room and they wouldn&#8217;t criticize him, they would rather criticize and flame Queerty for reporting it. </p>
<p>Queerty has stepped into a new level here with their work for this post. Thank you for continuing to do the right thing. Carry on keeping us informed because we appreciate it more than words can say. </p>
<p>Love, support, and respect.</p>
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		<title>By: HYHYBT</title>
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		<dc:creator>HYHYBT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 06:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For now we&#039;re stuck with him regardless. Come winter/spring 2012, it will be time to look at what he&#039;s done and what the alternatives are for the primary, but until then I&#039;d rather remain hopeful and not to worry about him too much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For now we&#8217;re stuck with him regardless. Come winter/spring 2012, it will be time to look at what he&#8217;s done and what the alternatives are for the primary, but until then I&#8217;d rather remain hopeful and not to worry about him too much.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 03:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe we&#039;re basically on the same page, Kev, it&#039;s just that I&#039;ve become very sensitive to word choice because the Obamabots run with the wrong word or exploit the gaps with their Messianic hysteria. 

As for &quot;Why is it thhat whomever works as the LGBT part of the communications team has such a tin ear when it comes to something as simple, really, as press releases? Someone simply needs to be better trained.&quot;

There&#039;s an old expression: the fish rots from the head down.

Have a great weekend and I hope Chitown is half as fun now as it was in the days of Dugan&#039;s Bistro before the Big A.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe we&#8217;re basically on the same page, Kev, it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;ve become very sensitive to word choice because the Obamabots run with the wrong word or exploit the gaps with their Messianic hysteria. </p>
<p>As for &#8220;Why is it thhat whomever works as the LGBT part of the communications team has such a tin ear when it comes to something as simple, really, as press releases? Someone simply needs to be better trained.&#8221;</p>
<p>There&#8217;s an old expression: the fish rots from the head down.</p>
<p>Have a great weekend and I hope Chitown is half as fun now as it was in the days of Dugan&#8217;s Bistro before the Big A.</p>
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		<title>By: mylilpip</title>
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		<dc:creator>mylilpip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 02:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>copied verbatim from the Whitehouse website:

President Obama also continues to support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and believes that our anti-discrimination employment laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity. He supports full civil unions and federal rights for LGBT couples and opposes a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.  He supports repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in a sensible way that strengthens our armed forces and our national security, and also believes that we must ensure adoption rights for all couples and individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil_rights/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>copied verbatim from the Whitehouse website:</p>
<p>President Obama also continues to support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and believes that our anti-discrimination employment laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity. He supports full civil unions and federal rights for LGBT couples and opposes a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.  He supports repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in a sensible way that strengthens our armed forces and our national security, and also believes that we must ensure adoption rights for all couples and individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil_rights/" rel="nofollow">http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil_rights/</a></p>
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