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Bill O'Reilly's head should be exploding right now.
There are certainly enough people in the administratino and congress that they could multi-task and accomplish these two things along with fixing the economy.
ENDA legislation is already there from a couple of years ago. Just ADD the geneder identity to it and do it.
Hate crimes should be easy too. All it encompases is ADDING sexual orientation and gender identity to EXISTING hate crimes laws. IT's not like you have to come up with new laws.
JUST DO IT. And then stand by and watch Rick Warren oppose ALL of it.
-I may just be crazy, but shouldn't turning DOWN a post count in the "offered" section... Just saying, if you had it offered, you can't complain if it doesn't happen again.
That leave you John. I'm serious. I can't think of anybody else who has the guts and the knowledge of the workings of Washington.
it's violence, real or imaginary, that produces results in DC
remember when aids activists shut down Wall Street. immediate change.
remember when the Minnesota farmer shot and killed the banker come to foreclose his farm; within 48 hours a farm relief bill was passed by the congress and signed by the president
gays probably don't need death and destruction; perhaps a concerted effort to out the closet cases on both sides of the aisle. They want bipartisanship, well let's give them some.
How about we let the President Elect assemble his cabinet with those that he deems BEST QUALIFIED ON THEIR MERITS?
Barrack Obama has already had to face more challenge than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history and is already facing more challenge than any other President Elect in U.S history.
How about we give him a little breathing room? Just a thought...
The last administration had virtually only one qualification for appointments; loyalty to Bush. If we impose upon the President Elect that there be appointments that satisfy only one qualification, that being that they be a GLBT, then isn't that similar to the politics of the past?
Seems to me there were/are numerous openly gay/lesbian individuals within the Republican party. How's that been working out?
Second question - I'll have to use the cliche of "that's mixing apples and oranges". Openly gay republicans? Like? Jeff Gannon? I'm stumped.
And why can't a well qualified non-GLBT do as much for the GLBT cause?
Why can't a well qualified non-GLBT do as much for the GLBT cause? One small example would be asking Rick Warren to perform the invocation at the inauguration. Walk a mile in my shoes, baby!
As timcnguy and I said before, who are those openly gay GOPers?
Oh, I know. Larry Craig!!!!
As a gay man I don't give wet willy if there's a gay person in the cabinet. I DO CARE if they get the freakin' economy back on track and clean up all the Cheney/Bush crime messes.
BTW... Jews aren't represented? I thought Rahm Emanuel was Jewish?
If they happen to be gay, fine. Or Latino. Or Jewish. Or what the hell ever.
Jesus Christ suckin' a silly straw, it's NOT that difficult.
Well... unless... you're LOOKING for reasons to feel slighted, in which case it doesn't matter what anyone says.
And to those of you who tell us to STFU, maybe you think our votes and money do not matter, perhaps the LGBT Community should withdraw our support from the Dems and we shall see if you really can afford to keep throwing us under the bus.
Team Obama makes me think that being a gay Dem is about as smart as being a gay Republican. Both parties don't care about our basic human rights.
EXACTLY MY POINT! THANK YOU! How about the metric being someone who the President Elect 'feel's most comfortable with? Who the President Elect 'feels' has the best potential? Who perhaps 'synergizes' the best?
You're sort of a community leader.
You've been outspoken.
Don't you think you are a community leader?
I think in this 21st Century.....A community leader encompasses the internet too.
Let's hope Obama does not miss this opportunity to heal a festering wound.
That made Michael Dukakis a one-term governor his first time around. It could happen to Obama. Dukakis shut out his supporters in an effort to appear "bi-partisan." When he needed help in his re-election bid, the people he stiffed stiffed him in return, and the people he "reached out" to laughed in his face.. Politics is all about "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours." Except that Republicans will allow you to pander to them and then they'll turn their back on you or, worse still, attack you openly.
I have already unsubscribed from all Dem lists asking me for support -- financial and otherwise. I'll see what happens before making any decisions about 2010 support.
I gave Obama money I really didn't have. So far, all I've gotten is a big "fuck you very much" in return, along with requests for more money to enable him to continue to pander to bigots.
OT: Obama just made a seriously progressive appointment for assistant AG:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/05/dawn-johnse...
Let's get to the point someday where a queer Latina isn't a demographic joke, but a reality. And a cabinet appointee will not fix that, it will throwing us a bone. I for one, am sick of being a token. Let's fight where it matters, within our communities, and develop an army that will not be pushed around. Where a white gay male will be an ally to a migrant worker, where an African American woman will be an ally to an Arab American woman. It will require us to talk to each other, understand each other, and fight for each other.
Let's get free.
B. Hispanic leaders tell Obama they want another Hispanic cabinet member.
therefore, C: Obama hates gays.
A gay man helped saved Western Civlization last Sept-Oct. (Barney Frank) but it was his tactics and brain, not his sexual preference that helped get the bailout bill hammered out.
The US has had a gay president, but he was not chosen because of his sexual preference, rather he was chosen because he was incompetent. (James Buchanan)
my best friend, j, is a gay black man (talk about filling your quota). if you ask him about black civil rights, he knows all about it, as do his brothers and sisters. they know about the movement because j's parents made it a point to teach them about it. j's parent's parents taught them, and on and on. so, when it comes to black civil rights, j has an oral history passed on through the generations that help him understand, and participate in the black civil rights movement.
on the other hand, j knows NOTHING about the gay civil rights movement. nothing about stonewall, milk, etc, etc. because his parents aren't gay (of course), there isn't a "gay history" passed from generation to generation. as far a j's concerned, the history of homosexuals began the day he realized he was gay.
so, seeing how homosexuals are a "random minority of nature", born into families that are not part of that minority class, and therefore unable to provide any context to the gay and lesbian struggle, and since, until very recently, homosexuals were not having offspring of thier own, is the gay rights movement stuck with a peter pan complex, where yesterday is forgotten, tomorrow never comes, and avancements are extra hard because each generation is starting from scratch? and if so, is there any remedy to this delema?
whadda think?
"One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation's consciousness. But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, the openly gay Rustin is not the household name that many of his activist contemporaries are. In exploring history's Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D'Emilio explains why Rustin's influence was minimized by his peers and why his brilliant strategies were not followed, or were followed by those he never meant to help."
Rustin was indispensable to the Civil Rights movement in this country--and all LGBT people, not just African-American gays should be aware of his contribution to American History and the civil rights movement.
Alas, Americans know nothing about history--much less the GLBT contribution to it. Now that we've had a movie about Harvey Milk--it's time for one about Rustin, as books seem to be something Americans shy away from...
Obama + Warren =H8.
Obama is a homophobe. Period. McClurkin. Warren. No LGBT people chosen.
its politics... its about horse trading...the Latino population demographics are only going to swell as the decades pass... gay people better start breeding faster if we want to swell our ranks ... ( why does that sound so strange).... its all about measurable voting blocks... why is that so hard to grasp?
MAkes me PROUDER THAT EVER that I did not fall for the bullshit and voted Nader.
You want something form O'Same, vote 3rd party in 2010 and make him beg for the votes of our communities
See http://equalrep.com and the facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=52503152007
The above commentary is out of bounds!! What qualification does sexual preference portray? An oxymoron to try to equate the two. Obama would be guilty of Title whatever for sexual discrimination if he even conveyed he was aware of someone's sexual orientation and used that as a basis of selection. Gays need to get mainstream qualifications.
David Axelrod - Senior Advisor to the President-elect - Jewish
Maybe not cabinet level but they are 2 of the earliest and closely linked appointments to the President-Elect ... and they are Jewish. Do they not count as Jews in your eyes?