Its looking gleefully like the GOP presidential nominees will wind up killing each other by inches, but President Obama isn’t taking any chances now that his campaign is heating up in earnest. Last night he paid a call on the Washington, DC, home of Karen Dixon and Nan Schaffer for a $35,8000-a-head LGBT fundraiser that earned a cool $1,432,000 for the Obama Victory Fund.
Before a relatively intimate group of 40, Laura Ricketts—the openly lesbian owner of the Chicago Cubs (and a serious Obama fundraiser)—introduced the President, saying the gathering was held, “to show the president that the LGBT community stands strongly behind his reelection. I know the president stands with us.”
After addressing the economic crisis on everybody’s mind, Obama discussed his support for the community and how it is in line with the values our nation was founded on: “You should be judged on the merits. That’s at the heart of the American dream [and] that’s how you should be judged—not by what you look like, not by how you worship, not by where you come from, not by who you love. The work that we’ve done with the LGBT community, I think, is just profoundly American.”
He later mentioned the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and how, though Republicans predicted dire consequences for the Armed Forces, the results have been spectacularly unspectacular.
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“Because we did [the repeal] methodically, since it happened, nothing’s happened. There hasn’t been any notion of erosion in unit cohesion.”
Discussing a visit to a Marine base in Hawaii, the president said several servicemembers thanked him for ending DADT. “I didn’t even know whether or not they were gay or lesbian. I didn’t ask. that wasn’t the point.”
Photos: Steve Jurvetson, Olga Lednichenko
Rick Heintz
But Mr. President… How do you feel about marriage equality? From someone who lives in Wrigleyville…
No-Obot
How is Obama any better than the Republitards when Obama used his (in)Justice Department to argue to UPHOLD DADT and DOMA for over three years, and then just basically turned DOMA over to a Republican controlled House of Reps to continue the battle against our civil rights when Obama could have ended it three years ago; especially after losing in federal court the first time. Did you know he was under no constitutional obligation to appeal either DADT or DOMA — or even defend it in the first place if his Justice Department deem the act unconstitutional?
The DoJ obligation is to upholding the US Constitution, not every single law passed by Congress. No administration has ever done that, including the Obama administration when it “chose” not to defend the Federal Parks Department prohibition against holding religious services in federal parks without a permit. Congress pass the law giving the US Parks Dept. the authority to do that. So, Obama is a liar when he indicated it was the DoJ obligation to defend DOMA and DADT just because it was passed by Congress. It was not obligatory. Instead, Obama and the DoJ could have filed an Amicus Brief asking the federal court to overturn DOMA and DADT on constitutional grounds.
He betrayed us. Not once during his campaign for president in 2008 did he say he would defend DADT and DOMA by arguing to UPHOLD those obscene discriminatory affronts to human decency. If he would have said that to us, do you really think the lying weasel had gotten many of our votes then?
But, Obama did exactly what GW Bush would have done — except, only after losing the House of Representative to the Republicans did he slap together a repeal of DADT (removing non-discrimination protections, of course) after the DEMS lost control of the House in 2010.
Obama is the biggest chicken-shit overtly homophobic Democratic president since Bill Clinton who gave us DADT and DOMA. When DEMS had control of both houses — we got DADT. Two years later we got DOMA when DEMS lost control of Congress after their liberal base refused to come out to vote for blue-dog Democrats during the midterms. Clinton could have at least showed symbolic support by vetoing DOMA even if it would probably have been overridden by the bigots in the Senate (including the majority of cowardly Democrats — because, after all, you know we are expendable. And DADT should never had been passed by a Democratic-controlled congress in the first place.
How history repeats itself. When will the DEMS ever learn that you don’t screw around with your base. Republicans know that, Democrats are either too damn stupid to care, or they think their base (ie especially most in the GLBT Obot community) are too fucking pathetic to stand up for themselves.
It’s 2012 and Obama doesn’t have a crippled mortician like Bob Dole to run against him this time like Clinton did back in the 1996. The writing is on the wall, Obama is going to lose, he’s pissed off too many of his liberal base for them to give a shit about him anymore when he has acted just like any other homophobic, money-grubbing Republican on most issues since he’s been in office.
That old shit about “well, he’s better than the other guy” just doesn’t cut it anymore — especially when it becomes increasing apparently that is marginal at best, and not enough to justify rewarded a back-stabbing bigot like Obama with the presidency again.
Do you really want to hear Rick (pro-Prop 8) Warren give the opening invocation to Obama’s second inauguration — which Obama personally invited him to do while shuffling our own gay Bishop Gene Robinson off to the side? That would have been like President Lyndon B. Johnson (who pushed through the 1968 Civil Rights Act) inviting a segregationist racist minister to open his inauguration ceremonies while shoving a pro-civil rights clergyman into the gutter.
How soon you pathetic gluttons for punishment in the GLBT community forget! But, then again, if you don’t demand any better, then you get just what you deserve.
1EqualityUSA
He will likely pick a Justice that will be less rabidly anti-gay. SCOTUS-‘shrooms. have lifetime careers. Who will an anti-gay, conservative Republican pick for the Supreme Court? Presidencies come and go. Justices are slow to go. Equality is inevitable. Politics is smelly. Hold your nose and vote. The alternative is scary. Our rights should not even be on the table, as it forces our vote, which takes away the freedom of our vote. I resent this.
No-Obot
Actually a Democrat (Justice White) in 1986 wrote the majority opinion in the US Supreme Court which UPHELD the Sodomy statutes in the United States for nearly another two decades, whereas a Republican appointee (Justice Kennedy) wrote the prevailing opinion in 2003 over-riding Bower v Hardwick and struck down the remaining Sodomy laws in the US in Lawrence v Texas (as has been pointed out before by others in less Obot-loving posts here on Queerty).
Also, State Supreme Court Chief Justice (California) declared same-sex ban unconstitutional…Federal Court Justice (Vaughn, a Republican) declared Prop 8 unconstitutional. Plenty of Republican Judges have handed down decisions in our favor and plenty of Democratic Judges have decide against our rights (New York Supreme Court, etc.).
those who have pretended to be our “fierce advocate” (i.e. Obama) and who have just done so in order to steal our votes and our money deserve a special place in hell, and they certainly do not deserve to be re-elected.
The courts (both Democratic appointed ones and Republican appointed ones) will ultimately decide our fate. Democratic appointed jurists have decided against us (Supreme Court Justice White — a John Kennedy appointed Democrat) for instance wrote the deciding opinion upholding the vile Sodomy laws nationwide in 1986, like those in the state of Georgia that could have put us in prison for life. In 2003, a Republican appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion seventeen years later which rebuked Democrat SS Justice White’s previous slippery-slope “legal” opinion and struck down those obnoxious “consensual” Sodomy laws nationwide forever.
So all you Obots can go suck on it when you use that lame-ass excuse that some Democrat appointee to the federal courts will always be on our side and our only salvation when recent past cases seem to indicate just the opposite. Some Democrats in the court system often go out of their way to “prove” that they are not “too liberal” and frequently express their judicial “objectivity” at our expense by throwing the GLBT community under the bus (because, you know we are expendable — and continue to make ourselves that way by not kicking in the balls those people in the Democratic Party who betray us).
I have no doubt that if …ahem…our POTUS “constitutional law professor” Obama was on the Supreme Court today he probably would rule against us — just like how he instructed his Justice Department in how to defend DOMA and DADT for nearly three years. I don’t know what his problem is, but if white GLBT civil rights workers in the South and pro-Civil Rights president Lyndon Johnson had anything like Obama bigoted attitude, then quite likely Obama wouldn’t president today.
http://www.enotes.com/bowers-v-hardwick-reference/bowers-v-hardwick
Fool me once — shame on you.
Fool me twice — shame on me.
Don’t be a fool and reward treachery. Teach the Dems a lesson, the same lesson that any self-respecting minority (other that us here lately) would send to the Dems after being betrayed. And that is: You want my vote, then you better well fucking earn it or there will be hell to pay when you come up for re-election.
…Just say NoBama after November 2012. We got SS marriage started under a Republican President and the Sodomy Laws struck down as well — without the help of Democrats in Congress. If you must vote Democrat — vote local and state (that is only if they prove useful to our cause). If you really think about it, Obama is useless to our struggle and he has proven time after time to be on our enemy’s side as well as on the wrong side of history. In the last three years Obama certainly did every thing he could to consistently prove it too.
Maybe Ol’ (“Gawd’s in the Mix” only at Straight Marriages) Obama can get Rev. Rick (kill the gays in Uganda) Warren another go at delivering his unholy prayer invocation at Obama’s next (hopefully never to be) inauguration. How soon you forget the countless kicks in your collective guts ol’ GLBT community. How soon you forget like good little sheeple and lemmings. …Where’s the Gay “Pride” in that?
Ronbo
Thank you No-Obot! Too many in this community see all that glitters but don’t realize that Obama has been anti-gay in his Administration. As president, he could have paved the way for elimination of DOMA; unfortunately, he has allowed it to stand.
DOMA nullifys all the federal benefits of marriage – from social security benefits to mandating that we pay higher taxes than a hetro married couple + 998 more. Obama stands between us and equality… and it doesn’t look like he is moving anytime soon.
Dallas David
Obama and the Democrats ain’t perfect.
But he sure beats the beating that Republicans have waiting for us.
Republicans prattle on and on about “family values,” but they’ve got lots more closet cases and heterosexual adulterers who keep abandoning unwed mothers to the mercy of Government Welfare. Then when they are overwhelmed with guilt, they pull out their Bibles and quote Leviticus 20:13 “Gays must be executed” instead of Leviticus 20:10 “All Adulterers must be executed.”
What’s up with that?
Mike in Asheville
@No-Obot:
Before railing about politics, you should inform yourself about the issue. Fine, don’t like Obama; unimportant. But to not see or understand the difference between the actions of this President versus the previous president and all [save Paul who has no chance of getting the GOP nomination] of the GOP contenders, is idiotic and downright dangerous for our cause. (I say dangerous, because there are morons like you who will vote for actual ENEMIES, who do want to deny us of ALL rights.)
The reason I say you should learn more, is you wrote: “Obama is the biggest chicken-shit overtly homophobic Democratic president since Bill Clinton who gave us DADT and DOMA. When DEMS had control of both houses — we got DADT. Two years later we got DOMA when DEMS lost control of Congress after their liberal base refused to come out to vote for blue-dog Democrats during the midterms. Clinton could have at least showed symbolic support by vetoing DOMA even if it would probably have been overridden by the bigots in the Senate (including the majority of cowardly Democrats — because, after all, you know we are expendable. And DADT should never had been passed by a Democratic-controlled congress in the first place.”
DADT — even Barney Frank voted for DADT. Though, in context, the political effort was to end the all out ban against gays and lesbians to a ban against openly gay and lesbians. Certainly a “Devil’s Pact” but the fact is that in the moment, this was the effort of opening the military to gays and lesbians.
DOMA — A “symbolic veto”? Are you fucking kidding? DOMA was written by Richard Socarides, the White House liaison to the gay community — it was a political one-ups-man to show that Clinton support traditional family values. He wasn’t just chicken shit, it was a maneuver to secure the middle-of-the-road vote for Clinton’s reelection effort. As a campaign maneuver, it was as successful as Bush’s maneuver to ban same-sex marriage to roust up conservative voters to the Bush reelection effort.
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When Don Quixote tilted at windmills, he did so in his bid to aid others. You just rant but offer nothing, no solution and no nothing.
NoBama
@No-Obot:
You said it (if a bit wordy). Obama has shown us no love—only love for our money. And he keeps taking credit for DADT repeal, which he didn’t instigate; in fact, he initially opposed it. He only signed it because the Dems told him he’d be losing their support if he didn’t, so he had to. Yeah, Obama will go down in history as one of the great gay rights pioneers . . . right along with Roland Martin and Tracy Morgan. And with friends like those . . .
tj
Barack Obama has done more to advance gay rights than anyone in the history of our nation. That is all just pointing that out.
LandStander
Obama has done nothing for us?? Do we even live on the same planet?!
-Obama has appointed more openly gay to policy making posts inside and outside the White House.
-Obama has opened up visitation rights, so that any hospital who accepts Medicare (nearly all of them) must allow visitation rights to include same-sex partners.
-Obama has drastically expanded rights for gay couples and their partners who work in the federal government.
-Obama recently enforced non-discrimination policies in housing (I believe via HUD?)
-Obama is fighting DOMA in the courts (via cases such as Edith Winsor (sp?))
-Obama created the national resource center for LGBT seniors.
-Obama lifted the ban on HIV+ people entering the U.S.
-Obama led the U.N. measure that included adding sexual orientation to the definition of human rights.
-Obama administration completed the first ever Institute of Medicine study on LGBT health.
-Obama clarified the federal meaning of “family” to include LGBT families.
He is not perfect, but to say that he has done nothing for us is absolutely ridiculous.
There are tons more here
http://cdn.unicornbooty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/What-Has-Obama-Done-for-LGBT-AmericansIncredible-Infographic.jpeg
Rthym Nation 1814
Okay, folks in cyber Queerty world. I first logged onto this website in 2007/2008. I have patiatenlty stood by and listen to the various criticisms of Republican and Democrats as iterates towards the equality of the LGBT community. Lets me say and be very clear here
For all those who feel that President Obama is not doing anything or enough for the LGBT community have either over indulged in the privilege of living an openly LGBT lifestyle or have severely forgotten the repressive years prior to President Obama being in office.
I am not here to cause cyber mudslinging, but wake up folks. The measure taken by the Obama administration has been in great support for the LGBT community not just within the US but worldwide. LGBT support for Refugees is one thing that comes to mind as it relates towards the equality for all. Don’t be so blinded by the privileges gained to not understand that work for equality is a global issue and not an egocentric one.
If you can tell me a can date for the presidency that would support the LGBT within the US and abroad other than the current president, then I would make my voice heard in support of that person at the polls.
WAKE UP!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Bmh-NZjc0
Friend of Christie
@LandStander:
Sounds to me like you’re applauding the man for turning gays into this century’s welfare whores.
And how many of these accomplishments were achieved at Obama’s own, personal initiative? I propose that virtually none were, because he made it well-known back in 2006 that he was not a friend of the gay community. But now that he needs our money, it’s all hugs and rainbows. How convenient. Rather than being the noble advocate that gays seem to believe him to be, look at his (pre-Washington) record and you’ll find he’s more of a do-nothing and a sell-out who did nothing for us. Hell, even Rick Santorum would toot our horn if he thought it would get him enough campaign dollars to put him in the White House, so don’t try convincing yourself that Obama is the Gay Superhero of D.C. He’s a politician. Enough said.
PIG (Pretty Intelligent Guy)
The Prez doesn’t want to make life better for us, he only wants our money. That’s what he wants. To believe otherwise is to be as gullible as to believe in “hope and change.” Go for it.
NoBama
@LandStander: But what about gay marriage? He’d win the support of the gay community, but lose a lot of other bases (like anyone who doesn’t approve of gay marriage). Until I see him publicly give his blessing to a same-sex wedding, all he’s doing is pandering to us.
Chris
While I understand some of these commentors that are unsatisfied with Obama’s work about the LGBT community, let’s face it, US politicians can’t survive more than one term if they full support LGBT rights in this country. Conservative Christians and ignorant people hold a lot more power than everybody realizes. Obama is sure as hell the better choice than the alternative Republicans. Voice what you can about what he can do better, but let’s face it, it’s either him or a Republican president who wants to revoke all the things Obama did.
JS
@No-Obot: Remember when GWB tried using the ‘fool me one, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me’ bit? Hilarious!!
Also, yeah, Obama is not the perfect upholder of all truths and righteousness that we all dreamed he would be. (I guess being the first non-White President carries heavy burdens). And yeah, to an extent he’s sold us out–as he has other communities–for one more bid at the White House. And well, let’s not mention that he’s big on the $$$: the decision of his campaign to promote the Democratic Super PAC is so regrettable, as is his relation to other super capitalists.
But you know what the odd thing is? Despite all of this, I will still support him in his second bid for the White House. The mere thought that ANY GOP candidate may win the presidency is way more horrifying than all of this. Yeah, Obama hasn’t done as much as he could, but the election of any GOP candidate appears as a mere social regression. Progressivism tries to move forward; conservatism only appears to want to move backwards.
CJ
Obama’s pro-LGBT stances is like being pro-LGBT while the Titanic is sinking. He’s spending this country into debt like crazy and it was only the Tea-Party “revolution” that shook people up about this. And, before I get slammed, I am NOT pro-Tea Party. But, I’m also not ignorant of the fact that both Democrats and Republicans supported wild spending with NO plans to repay what is borrow. It wasn’t until the Tea Party came along and started screaming about the debt that Obama was willing to change his tune on spending. Before that he was a teenager with their first credit card…. and no limit!
We can’t keep borrowing 40 cents of each dollar. That can only last so long. Like I said… Obama is pro-LGBT on the Titanic. It’d be great if he were truly our “fierce advocate” on this topic. But, he’s going to be the last one due to politics.
jason
Note how Obama seems to avoid gay men. Almost all of his public GLBT-related functions have involved lesbians, not gay men.
You have to wonder whether Obama and his administration are uncomfortable about gay men.
No-Obot
@ No. 8 · Mike in Asheville — You are a typical moronic Dem-rimming Obot who can’t handle the truth about that backstabbing homophobic scum, Obama. Buzz off creep.
Michael Bedwell
@LandStander:
First, YES, Obama must be reelected because the alternative is so bad in so many ways. BUT NOT with a mound of distortions and outright lies that you’re simply regurgitating from someone else’s fantasy parade.
CLAIM: Obama has appointed more openly gay ….TRUTH: MOST of the important ones were recycles from Clinton appointees.
CLAIM: Obama has drastically expanded rights for gay couples and their partners who work in the federal government. TRUTH: The expansions for civilian employees were small potatoes, and he EMPOWERED denial of rights for gays IN the military when he backed the Pentagon’s demand that the nondiscrimination clause be gutted from the original repeal bill that he had promised to PERSONALLY fight for.
CLAIM: Obama recently enforced non-discrimination policies in housing. TRUTH: They ONLY apply to housing with HUD connections.
CLAIM: Obama is fighting DOMA in the courts. TRUTH: HE isn’t directly “fighting” DOMA, only siding with some plaintiffs that are—AFTER fighting THEM for two years.
CLAIM: Obama lifted the ban on HIV+ people entering the U.S. TRUTH: This is Obama, Inc’s, most shameless distortion. The bill repealing the ban was passed in the session of Congress before he took office and signed by the heinous Bush SO it was waiting on Obama’s desk when he was sworn in February 2009. BUT it took his peeps until June to even begin to start doing the paperwork cleanup to implement it, and that took another six months during which time dozens of HIV+ visitors were turned away at our borders when he could EASILY have issued an Executive Order to prevent that pending implementation.
CLAIM: Obama clarified the federal meaning of “family” to include LGBT families. TRUTH: What does that MEAN? Where’s the beef?
As for the “tons more” at your link—no, thank you, I’m allergic to Bullshit-Flavored Kool Aid.
the crustybastard
@Chris: “let’s face it, US politicians can’t survive more than one term if they full support LGBT rights in this country.”
That’s a lie.
Of all the members of Congress who stood for re-election after voting no on DOMA, not a single one lost. NOT ONE. And that was around 15 years ago.
If you do not insist on progress, if you do not demand fair representation, if you do not require real equality — you will get nothing better than the weak shit you’ve gotten this far.
No-Obot’s got it exactly right, except I’d add two additional points.
1. For all the handwringing about judicial appointments, Obama has basically sucked at it. His two SCOTUS appointments are more conservative than the judges they replaced. His farting around, dilly-dallying bullshit has caused more than one able and talented candidate to give up and go away. He has left open seats on federal benches FOR YEARS NOW, because he’s too much of a pussy to tell the Senate, “these are my choices because it’s my prerogative and if you don’t like this group, I can certainly find judges far, far more liberal.”
2. For all Obama’s bullshit about healthcare and families, he told a legally married employee of a federal circuit court that she couldn’t put her wife on her healthcare policy — even after the chief justice of the federal circuit explained how it was entirely permissible under existing federal law. This is particularly egregious, given that federal law allows the court every right and power to make this decision for itself, without requiring the blessing or approval of the executive branch to do it. In short, Obama’s just been gratuitously cockblocking healthcare coverage for this gay lawyer’s wife for years, for the sheer glorious hell of it.
Until Obama grows a spine and decides equal actually means equal, he’s a bigot.
And I won’t vote for a bigot, and neither should any other gay person.
Johnathon
You added an extra zero in thirty-eight thousand when reporting on the amount each person paid to attend the fundraiser. That aside I appreciate the article and would further appreciate spell checkers on your staff 😉
Mike in Asheville
@No-Obot: Oh, you soooo smart. Dip shit.
matt
@No-Obot: Have you been paying attention to the GOP candidates at all? Two of them literally want to DISMANTLE the 9th circuit and neuter the courts in general, specifically because of their gay rights rulings. Has any democratic politician recently proposed this? Absolutely not
Bigblatino
And the alternative is what? Romney? Santorum? Or maybe Newt Gingrich?
Queer Supremacist
Vote for Obama because Republicans suck? Not good enough.
After he signed NDAA into law I wouldn’t vote for Obama if he legalized gay marriage and performed them himself.
@the crustybastard: And I won’t vote for a bigot, and neither should any other gay person.
When confronted with the truth about Obama, his supporters made every excuse in the book, saying he had to say/do that to get elected. Maybe Sarah Palin was right and he was palling around with terrorists…since homophobia is a form of terrorism. Remember Donnie McClurkin? Remember Rick Warren’s invocation at the coronation? Remember the removal of the anti-discrimination clause in the DADT repeal bill? Remember the hate crimes bill that had to be attached as a rider? I cannot, in good conscience, vote for Obama for those and other reasons.
Most of you don’t dislike anti-gay Republicans for being anti-gay. You dislike them for being Republicans. Never mind the fact that New York couldn’t get gay marriage legalized without some Republican support, and nor can Washington state, or the strong possibility that a bipartisan strategy could have gotten us equality 20 years ago. The problem is not the parties. It’s radical Christianity. It’s the passive-agressive counterpart of radical Islam. And it needs to be stopped.
I’m voting for the candidate who supports gay marriage. Who are the rest of you voting for?
Bigblatino
@Queer Supremacist: And again, who is the alternative? Just not vote and hope that the Republicans like Romeny, Santorum or Gingrich will have a change of heart?
Don't Be Used
As long as the Democrats use and abuse the GLBT community like battered housewives who keep crawling back to them, without consequences to be had at the voting booth, then the GLBT community will never make any progress. We tried the carrot for too long — now it is time to use the stick.
Support those who unequivocally support you — and certainly not anyone who has the arrogance to think that they can get away with saying that they are still “evolving” on the paramount issue of your civil rights, equality and dignity as a human being as well as an American citizen.
TxHeat
Obama 2012! I think any Gay person who can vote for what the republicans have to offer this year over Obama will have the blood of future generations of young Gays on there hands. They are worse then the religious right wing nuts and will need Obama care in 2014 because they are definitely mentally so messed up they need medical care.
Oh, ok.
No-Obama 2012! I think any Gay person who can vote for what that backstabbing piece of shit has to offer this year over any decent third party liberal candidatge will have the blood of future generations of young Gays on there hands. They are worse then the religious right wing nuts and Obots and will need a “real” comprehensive National Health Care system in 2014 because they are definitely mentally so messed up they need medical care.
Obama does deserve a second term to betray us again.
Oh, ok.
uh…make that Obama doesn’t deserve a second term to betray us again.
A Vote for Obama is like kicking yourself in the nuts. Dump the bastard!
How soon you forget that Log Cabin Republicans fought to overturn DADT (and won in federal court twice) which homophobic Obama and his henchman AG Eric Holder fought to uphold DADT and DOMA for years. Would that scumbag had gotten the gay vote in 2008 if he let it be known to us that he was going to legally defend DADT and DOMA — I think not.
Oh, and by the way, the Department of Justice is under no obligation to defend any law past by Congress which it deems to be unconstitutional. EVery president has done that — including Obama. But he decide to fight us for over two years on DADT and DOMA. What a scum. The repeal of DADT only happened because Obama lost his appeals at the federal court level, not because he wanted it to happen. Vile pig that he is.
Oh, ok.
@Oh, ok.: It’s really pathetic that you have to pretend to be me on a comments section of a blog. Get a life lol.
divkid
@Queer Supremacist:
“Most of you don’t dislike anti-gay Republicans for being anti-gay. You dislike them for being Republicans.”
nahh, they just hate social conservatives which are coterminous with the republicans. self-preservation would demand nothing less. i’m sure, to a man, these same people that you traduce would have been pretty much on board with the whole lincoln thing — unlike many in that great party now.
divkid
edit: *who* are coterminous..
Ronbo
Vote for Obama because Republicans suck? Really? Why not vote for someone who actually supports you: Rocky Anderson.
All this about Obama not being “perfect” is B.S. At a time when the majority of American’s support marriage equality, Obama is against it. What about the majority of Americans who are against ENDA and DOMA? Obama has the power to nullify, alter or disregard them BUT OBAMA DOES NOT! Perfect?!? Obama IS the Republican candidate.
Rocky Anderson respects GLBT Americans enough to stand with us. Obama stands against us with his Republican opponents. Who will you vote for? Someone who “isn’t as bad” or someone who is actually good? Almost all of Obama’s “support measures” were designed to fade with his presidency. They were selected BECAUSE they are only temporary.
Vote for good. Please.
WillBFair
These comments cannot be representative of our community. These people don’t understand the two party system or basic arithmetic. It’s very sad.
The real tragedy is: they’re too dumb to learn from the vast majority of sensible queers.
Or maybe they’re trolls sent here from the Republican Committee to confuse our people. Republicans have money to burn, and they could probably afford to hire ten trolls for every gay voter.
Mike in Asheville
@WillBFair: Nicely said, thanks.
WillBFair
@Mike in Asheville: You’re very welcome. It’s always nice to get a kind word.
Not to be too squishy, but I’ve often enjoyed your posts as well.
Oh, ok.
@ No. 31 · It’s really pathetic that you have to pretend to be me on a comments section of a blog. Get a life fool! lol.
NoObama in 2012
divkid
jeez it’s so confusing, now we don’t know *which* Oh, ok to despise now.
maybe the race-baiting irrationally hateful trolling one?
… naah, still not helping.