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If I wanted Republican values, I would have voted for a Republican. I gave a fair amount of money to Democrats in the last election cycle. Not one dime more. You want my money, work for it.
He supported government secrecy, and I didn't speak up.
He supported ignoring war crimes, and I didn't speak up.
Then he came for me, and there was no one left to speak up for me.
The final line in that strong editorial says it all.
"But busy calendars and political expediency are no excuse for making one group of Americans wait any longer for equal rights."
Oh wait, the White House sent their big gay gun (Office of Personnel Mgmt) out to tell us why this wasn't a bad thing and they just HAD to do it. He claimed it was REQUIRED of them.
And to those incestuous little homosexuals who still think we should wait. There's no more waiting. Obama has multitasked just fine on lots of other issues, he can do something on DADT or DOMA now. Civil rights need not take a back seat while we continue to be forced into the back seat
Oooohhhh. . . . Aaaaahhhh . . . Felt SO good.
He massaged us like a pro.
Where's the "happy end"?!
Honey, he's so "FIERCE"!!
He's throwin' shade all over
The damn place, bitches.
I'm so SICK of that patronizing crap.
Funny you should ask that. Obama did divide his forces and took time out to viciously craft a major attack on the gay community. If he really didn't have the reserve to fight a battle on two fronts at once, why did he split his forces, especially to treacherously sneak attack someone who was supposed to be an ally. Far from waiting until the economic battle was won, he diverted strength from that battle to backstab us. And on that other battle front, he is also siding with the enemy there, continuing to enrich the banks and Wall Street with trillions of dollars, even to the point of creating a second wave of subprime mortgage loans. He's also defended wiretapping, continued the illegal, criminal wars in the Middle East, is even firing whistle blowers. No, Bush was the enemy and if anything, Obama has put himself squarely in the enemy's camp ... as an ally.
People assume that full repeal would automatically lead to recognition of marriage between states. Lawyers said that was a false assumption.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31373407/ns/politic...
What the heck happened to the election?
there is no reason on earth why gay humans and straight humans should be treated any differently.
Now because of the DOJ brief, Hate Crimes legislation is going to be seen as too little, too late.
Now I don't believe that even an executive order on DADT will quell the anger. Harry Reid hasn't done any favors for Obama on this issue with his statement yesterday either. He just added to the pressure.
I think in order to fix this mess, Obama will need to come out in public and state how disgusted he is by the brief, force the DOJ to retract the brief and fire the attorney responsible for the brief. And, this will have to be done in ADDITION to Hate Crimes and DADT, not instead of.
I think this may require a "Philadelphia" style speech like Obama gave on race in America.
Who knows, maybe this HUGE misfire by the administration will, in the end, get us much farther down the equality path than we would have gotten without it.
We haven't heard anything from them yet, have we?
The hosts of this fund raiser, Barney Frank, Tammy Bladwin & Jared Polis haven't weighed in yet either. They are running out of time.
If we don't get satisfaction soon, this DNC fund raiser had better turn into a HUGE LGBT equality PROTEST. And Frank, Bladwin and Polis had better be at the head oft he protest line.
Nuff said.
Hillary seems to be succeeding in this area, within her department. Actions over pretty words.
Every time this issue comes up, I wish people would remember the context. Clinton was THE gay-friendliest president we've ever had, and did more for our community at a time in which it was a greater political cost.
Obama has done less at a time in which the public is increasingly on our side, especially with DADT. The poll numbers during the Clinton years on touching this military issue were dire; the poll numbers now overwhelmingly on our side.
Clinton took more risks for our community than Obama has to date. Period.
How can a legally married couple NOT have standing to sue the federal government fo their rightful federal mrriage benefits?
I understand they might not have standing to sue for other states to recognize their marriage because they haven't moved to another state and been denied recognition.
But, they are legally married and are being denied the federal marriage benefits.
The DOJ had a choice on how to deal with legacy Bush policies, most of which are beneath contempt and were roundly criticized by the likes of Holder and Obama himself. But they continue to defend and even extend some of the most grotesque power-mad excesses of the Bush secrecy and torture regimes, when they should be investigating and prosecuting. Likewise, they had to choose to draft and file as disgusting a brief as they produced on DOMA. It took some effort to come up with so offensive a document, so they obviously have multitasking down, or have time on their hands. The Times does nail this one. Even if they decided to submit a brief on DOMA, it could have been general and not particularly forceful, and could have come with some administration official indicating that their intent and policy position would be to seek to repeal DOMA. That would have been easy, consistent with campaign promises, and avoided this controversy.
If it were a case of simple inaction on our most important issues, it would still be too early (IMHO) to go to the wall in criticizing Obama, but they have made a point to take action, most all of it completely contrary to what we were led to believe in the campaign. It is now our job to let them hear it loudly, forcefully, day and night, that they will either correct their mistakes and start fulfilling their promises, or they can count on a large and perhaps decisive source of votes and funds vanishing and perhaps even working against his administration.
http://www.markfiore.com/quasimarriage_0