Wow!!! A whole page full of anti-Obama threads...

I have logged onto DU for the first time in like three months...I guess this was a mistake.... I can't believe the once sided attacks against Obama... Where are the other 20% of dems that support Obama with me.... I think I will find somewhere else to have reasonable campaign conversations... see you all later!

Good job. :thumbsup:

Justified or not...

This place has become Bash-Obama Underground.

Take care...and enjoy the sunshine.

I'll probably post more over there from now on. I'll just check DU for news articles and stay the hell out of GD Politics.

Hillary gets blasted here every single day from multiple angles.

This has been going on 2 days maybe?

This too shall pass.

and have my posts deleted.

Its always better to post with a cooler head.

But please do come back in a couple of days.

Of course we don't run and hide just because the going gets tough here for a few days.

We're told to just "deal with it".

:hi:

I still don't understand. I feel like I'm locked outside screaming in the rain
I like you guys,always have, but Hillary is going to lose this thing for us with the help of the spineless Democratic Congress.

She looks good in quite a few Southern states in head to heads, she protects our NE flank from Rudy and with the right VP pick the West(outside of CA which is a given) is hers for the taking.

Of course there is much work to be done and no time to revel in overconfidence but there is much to be cautiously optimistic about when it comes to Hillary's chances in the GE.

Are you disappointed that a lot of Obama's supporters have decided to lie low rather than betray their own values by associating themselves with elements of the Republican hate machine?

I think the absentees are showing some class.

It if fine to vote for Obama. It is fine to support Obama.

It is, however, not at all fine to defend any aspect of the McClurkin business. Doing so is immoral and corrupt.

I support Biden and Clinton, in that order. Both of them voted for the IWR. I have never uttered one word in support of the war, because I have an actual moral core. The war is WRONG.

I can still vote for Biden or Clinton because as an adult, I don't look to politicians to buttress my personal moral sense. I vote for practical reasons, not as an act of self-expression.

Vote for Obama? Go for it. I have no problem with it. And if he gets the nomination I will certainly vote for him myself.

But to slur and marginalize GLBT DUers in order to advocate for a candidate, as so many have done here? That's wrong.

:yourock:

Most people here were WAITING for the explanation. Go back and look at the threads from a few days ago. Oh, he'll explain, now that he KNOWS, he'll get rid of this guy, he'll make a statement, we know it's just a mistake...that guy got more "benefit of the doubt" than any ten candidates have ever gotten.

But then, he didn't come forward, he didn't explain, we knew that he knew, he didn't get rid of the homophobe, he issued a mealy-mouthed statement, and then slapped a white gay guy on the schedule to do the invocation, as though one gay guy cancels out the other homophobic clown.

I'm not hating the guy. I'm just heartsick. I'm an undecided voter, but I've decided that this makes me way too uneasy, and I've all but put a line through Obama's name over this. It's not just the bigotry--if this is a political decision, he is demonstrating PISSPOOR political acumen. If this is a management decision, he has shown me that he cannot lead his own campaign staff. If this is a moral decison, it's a lousy one. He's struck out. It's a shame. I liked a lot of what he said, but he's saying that my friends and a few of my relatives aren't as good as other humans, on the one hand, and then making halfassed non-conciliatory conciliations that bat around the TOLERANCE word, instead of the EQUALITY word.

I can't 'tolerate' that. Not in the goddamned 21st Century.

I still haven't picked a candidate, but this leaves me with a bad taste. I can't muster any enthusiasm for the guy, now.

I have a cousin (not gay, with a gay brother) who was a fervent BO volunteer in a key primary state, but who as of just this morning has withdrawn support and a monthly recurring contribution (a rather generous one, too) over this issue. Heartsick, too. Angry. Sad.

BO isn't realizing the effect he's having--maybe his staff isn't telling him, I dunno. A lot of his supporters aren't gay, but they have a gay little brother or sister, a gay kid, cousin or what-have-you. To say nothing of friends and neighbors.

You don't tell people that they, or their loved ones, are "less than." It's doubly hurtful from someone who's also suffered the slings and arrows, and knows how lousy it feels to be treated in that fashion.

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after the other and the same articles plucked from newspaper bashing Hillary. If I can stand the holier than thou Obama supporters constantly bashing Hillary to get to read every other thread why not you.

They brought it upon themselves.

On edit: Gross generalizations incite all kinds of bad feelings and then other people get pissed off and then all of a sudden it's the Jets versus the Sharks and then dancing and singing will break out and we can't have that.

MMMmmmmmmm ... red meat.

No big deal. It's just another day in the saga Days of Democratic Underground.

i can onLy read two responses on this thread.

and if you're actuaLLy Leaving i won't have to add you to the ignore List. hopefuLLy, you're just fooLing.

I won't be intimidated.

The GLBT community have issues with Senator Obama's stance on the proposed performance by "ex-Gay" gospel singer, Donnie McClurkin. The issues are justified.

I like Obama. But if he ever had a shot around here, his followers have totally blown it. Score another victory for the progressives.

It's fun watching you Obama bots and Hillbots tearing into each other, kind of like the Jets and Sharks. You really do your candidates justice. Keep up the good work.

Next will be for you guys to get some guns and start shooting it out with each other. That'll be a real hoot.