Barack Obama‘s in it to win it. The Democratic presidential candidate has snatched up ads in some Ohio and Texas’ gay weeklies. From The Advocate‘s Kerry Eleveld:
The Obama campaign is lavishing some of its cash advantage on the LGBT community with targeted ad buys in Ohio and Texas leading up to the critical March 4th primaries in both states (Rhode Island and Vermont also vote that day). According to Obama LGBT Steering Committee member Eric Stern, the campaign has just completed an ad buy with queer newspapers in the four largest LGBT markets of those two states — Columbus, Cleveland, Dallas and Houston.
Full page ads will appear starting this Friday in Outlook Weekly of Columbus, the Gay People’s Chronicle of Cleveland, the Dallas Voice, and OutSmart, which is Houston based. Buying a full-page, four-color ad that appears one time typically costs anywhere between $1,000 and $2,000 in weekly publications. In the Gay People’s Chronicle, for instance, the ad cost about $850 according to the paper’s advertising manager; the same ad went for about $1500 in the Dallas Voice.
Stern called the coordinated buy “the icing on the cake” in terms of the Obama camp’s outreach to the gay community in Ohio and Texas. “It’s a direct appeal to LGBT voters asking for their support,” he said…
Obama’s obviously trying to cut into Hillary Clinton‘s last secure base: the gays, who have consistently backed the famously gay-friendly former First Lady.
blackie
I love Barack Obama.
Michael Bedwell
The ad says something “…it’s about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect,†the final three words in large letters.
If he’s so sincere about treating us with “dignity and respect,†then:
1. why did he throw us under the homohating bus being driven by Donnie McClurkin and pay for the gas? Honk if you love Jesus er Obama! So much for “dignity and respect.â€
2. why did he misrepresent his SUPPORT FOR a state’s right to ban same gender relationships by any name? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
3. why did he MISREPRESENT the legal irrelevance of DOMA Section 2 which eliminating—according to his own Constitutional law professor—would not help gays at the state level in any functional way? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
4. why was he apparently TOO BUSY running for US Senate to join as a sponsor of and fight for the LGBT rights bill in Illinois? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
5. why has he LIED TO OUR FACES repeatedly [LOGO forum; “Meet the Pressâ€; “The Advocateâ€] and say he had cosponsored it AND “passed†it when HE WASN’T EVEN STILL IN THE ILLINOIS SENATE when it was voted on? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
6. why was he unable to convince his homhating close friend, the Rev. & Sen. James Meeks, to vote for the LGBT rights bill? Did he even try? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
7. why does he want to ask the Pentagon about repealing DADT? What does he THINK they’ll say? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
8. why does he only want to increase AIDS funding by five billion dollars while Sen. Clinton wants to increase it by at least TWENTY billion dollars? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
9. why in his entire 64-page “Blueprint for CHANGE-Barack OBAMA’S PLAN for America†can no one find one sentence, one word, one syllable about ANY LGBT-related issue? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
10. while most candidates agreed that “marriage equality†was a dog that would not hunt in this election, why is Obama the ONLY candidate to lecture us about how happy we should be with HIS definition of “full equality.†If they’re so good, so equal, Sen. Obama, would YOU trade YOUR MARRIAGE for our civil union? So much for “dignity and respect.â€
Just asking.
Bill Perdue
If you think Obama’s a snake in the grass, and he is, check out http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/327692.aspx. where she gives a lengthy interview to Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network.
There you’ll see why Hillary Clinton is reviled as a Dixiecrat in a right centrist party. Like Obama, she’s bitterly opposed to same sex marriage. She and her party are responsible for DOMA and DADT and refuse to repeal them. Not by chance did her campaign manager Barney Frank accept the task of gutting ENDA and then tossing both it and the Matthew Sheppard Hate Crimes Bill into the toilet. Democrats did it so Republicans couldn’t claim that Democrats are GLBT friendly. As if.
Hillary Clinton, like Obama is a union buster and a long time supporter of NAFTA, exporting jobs, tax cuts for the rich matched by cuts in welfare, Medicare and unemployment insurance. She lying about that now but her social and economic program was set in stone when she spent six years on the board of director of Wal-Mart whose real slogan is “Always Low Wagesâ€.
Hillary Clinton, along with other right wing centrists like Joe Lieberman, is an ardent supporter of Bush’s oil piracy and supporter of the zionist apartheid state. Their cruel treatment of Palestinians has been exposed by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the most senior anglocatholic supporter of GLBT equality knows a thing or two about life in an apartheid state. Billery adamantly supports Bushes plan to extend the war to Iran by using nukes ‘if necessary’. Billery and Obama plan on keeping troops there through 2013.
If you looked at the video link above you see Billary Clinton as she really is. As outrageous as Obama is getting in bed with swine like Donnie McKulkin and Mary Mary , Billery Clinton goes way beyond him trawling for the votes of the senile bigots who dote on Pat Robertson, the bible fascist. She appeared on Pat Robertson’s CBN network to explain her deep commitment to ‘christian values’ like opposition to samesex marriage and to take a few cheap shots at Ralph Nader, a indisputable American hero. She bitterly explained that Nader is just a tool of the Republicans, the same slander she uses against Edwards, Obama and anyone else reckless enough to get in her way. Earlier Pat Robertson expressed his deep admiration for Billary and congratulated her for ‘tacking to the right†as hard and as fast as she could.
The only people who could admire her or Obama are the terminally naive, other Dixiecrats, hacks for the right centrist Democrats and the occasional Frisco ambulance chaser.
Bitch Republic
Good points, Michael. You’ve just proven that ‘Bama is just pandering to the gays and has no intention to actually do anything for gay people.
He’s a typical, sleazy politician, though he likes to pretend he’s some knight in shining armor.