GayWired.com hypocrite of the week: Barack Obama

Having just read that the McClurkin issue "doesn't matter outside of DU", just so you can see what's out there:

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February 29, 2008

With the critical March 4th Democratic primaries in Texas and Ohio looming near, this week, Barack Obama released an open letter to the gay community in which he writes:

“I’m running for President to build an America that lives up to our founding promise of equality for all—a promise that extends to our gay brothers and sisters. It’s wrong to have millions of Americans living as second-class citizens in this nation.” ...

But my question is: Where was all this love, respect and concern for the gay community back in October, 2007, when the junior Senator from Illinois was actively courting the conservative African-American vote in South Carolina with his pal and supporter, ex-gay minister Donnie McClurkin? The same Donnie McClurkin who performed at the 2004 Republican convention and cozied up to that famous agent of change, George W. Bush.

Where were the ads in the local gay press in South Carolina talking about what a friend the Senator was to the LGBT community? South Carolina: An area where such pronouncements might not have been so well received by the stridently homophobic demographic whose support the Obama campaign needed to defeat Hillary Clinton in that state’s primary?...

Sorry Mr. Obama, this is where the rubber hits the road. Prior to your cowardly actions during the South Carolina primary, the LGBT community willingly accepted you at your word, believing that you would be a true friend, despite your imited record of support on gay and lesbian issues.

But that was then and this is now.

Because he did nothng when he was asked to take action on behalf of an issue of importance the LGBT community, and yet now asks the LGBT community to accept him as a friend and support his political ambitions in Texas and Ohio, Senator Barack Obama is the Hypocrite of the Week.





http://www.gaywired.com/article.cfm?section=70&id=18333

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Thank you.

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The week, if not the year.

Just like almost any other candidate.

That's what I love about this country. We're diverse. All gay people, all black people and all women DON'T think alike. Love it.

And the same applies to presidential candidates.

that the real point of this article is lost on both the rabid Obama supporters and the people who don't really give a shit about GLBT issues.

That real point is that Senator Obama only seems to cuddle up to the GLBT community when it might be politically beneficial. At other times, he'd rather us be at arms length or even outside in the wood shed. Is consistent support from an otherwise good candidate too much to ask for?

I am extremely concerned about GLBT issues, always have been ~ I am also an Obama supporter.

Rabid Obama supporters and people who don't give a shit about GLBT issues. You're obviously not a part of either category, so my reply shouldn't concern you. :pals:

...step out of the picture. I can't be photographed with Jesse Jackson either.

I have different accents for different groups of voters, kind of like how Bu$h talks Southern when he is South of the Mason Dixon. Who is the real Me? Vote for me, elect me, "I am the best" and find out!

Because it's true.

3 more days.

And it might just get re-posted.

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Gay voters increasing Obama support -> http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/3/article_5658.php

Gay Clinton Backers Defect to Obama, Eroding Her Base (Update3) -> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aBcwM9pVeUpo&refer=home

Gay Voters, Take Note -> http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/gay-voters-take-note/?ref=opinion

Hey, 'Homos,' Obama's our 'dude'! (NOT my title) -> http://www.southernvoice.com/blog/index.cfm?type=blog&start=2/24/08&end=3/2/08

Among others...

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What is wrong with them?

They must have NO SELF-ESTEEM at all!

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or puppets or whatever names the Hillbots are throwing at us

I'm just waiting for self-loathing to be tossed my way as well

Stop being silly.

By the people agreeing with you. I didn't find it silly then or now.

But allow me that it is one thing to have issues with the way Obama has handled LGBT issues and "hating" him. :)

to hating him. I'll take your word for it if you say you don't.

Your original posts seem to primarily be ones condemning Obama. If you believe there is more to Obama than just your issues with the way he has handled LGBT issues, I haven't seen evidence of it.

I said way back last summer that it is way past time for a person of color to be on the ticket.

On the other hand, Obama's ad buy this week to "reach out" to gays is not settling well with me, nor with many others, and that I will not deny. But hate? No.

that gay men and women who support Obama are weak, low self-esteem, self hating, etc.

Thanks for clarifying.

Although I said nothing about having to hate Obama.

But if you don't have a problem with the McClurkin train wreck.

Yes, low self esteem

I just don't see this as the sole or defining position on Obama re: LGBT rights. I look at the whole picture of what Obama has said and done. I don't agree with all of his positions but as I've said many times, I find him to be the frontrunner when it comes to mentioning gay people as part of the fabric of this country.

As for my self-esteem, I've given speeches to thousands at gay rallies. I've been published in papers speaking out against gay hate crimes. I've been out for almost twenty years. My partner and I hold hands and hold each other in public. And I have a very public job in entertainment - I'm out there too.

PS - if you keep insisting that you know whether people have low self-esteem based only on their political stance on one issue on a message board, I think that raises real questions about your maturity, critical thinking skills and lack of open-mindedness.

Gay Clinton Backers Defect to Obama, Eroding Her Base (Update1)
Bloomberg - Feb 29, 2008
Obama later denounced McClurkin's views. Tobias Wolff, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia who heads Obama's national gay-...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aBcwM9pVeUpo&refer=home

Barack Obama, Do You Think We're That Stupid?

Open Letter to the LGBT Community (Enhanced Version)

Hey Bluebear! :hi:

Way to go to persuade Obama, his campaign or supporters.

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What a way to advance an agenda. 'Barry' is RW infantile stuff. If you preach only to the converted, you will change the world :sarcasm:

Taylor Marsh
Huffington Post
The Left Coaster
Hate Crimes Bill.org
InterstateQ
GoreHub.com

and more...

I'm not exactly worried. But thank you for your concern. :hi:

And to anyone who will post telling you to shut up about McClurkin:

This isn't your message board. If hatred towards GLBT people, like Bluebear, like me, like many other good DUer's and GLBT Americans as a whole doesn't interest you, that's your problem.

Some Obama supporters fail to see why this is so important. "Get on the train", "this is a non~story", "Hillary did it too", "He was for gay rights before he was against it" are all excuses we read from the Obama Cult. Enough with excuses! Obama is no friend to the LGBTQ community.

:kick: and rec

No one who says something like this;


... would possibly be someone the LGBT community could support. :shrug:



Look at it seriously for a moment; Why would he destroy his radical fundie support to court the LGBT community?

Well, that's pretty much what he did.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200802290003

At this point, he has nothing to lose by following through on that repeal.

It simply makes more logical sense to believe he can produce change on LGBT issues more readily than anyone else running for president.