Video rewind: Obama asking for our support on the campaign trail

Also, notice how this came out on a Friday? That's a downright Rovian play.

I'm so disgusted right now; I'm glad that I have plenty of work left to do today.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

Then, I re-read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." I have always drawn inspiration from Dr. King and, once again, he did not disappoint. Here are a few lines from his letter that really struck home to me on the issues of equality as we now see it today:

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

"As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us."

"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."

"For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This 'Wait" has almost always meant 'Never.' We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'"

"Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust."

"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. Teh yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself..."

I know this is long, but I re-read these words and I walk away with a clearer understanding of how we merge the sad history of our past with the current civil rights issues that we face. Unfortunately, we as a people seem so unwilling to learn from our past mistakes. History will not judge kindly (hello, George Wallace). The larger question becomes: does the President of the United States recognize this truth?

How can he justify his current stance with "equal justice under law?"  

"I like your Christ, but do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." ~Gandhi
"Upon the integrity, wisdom, and independence of the judiciary depend the sacred rights of free men and women."  

 But the question is, Will those who are part of the LGBT community have the guts to stand up. or will they cave and vote for the Democratic because the other would be worse?

 I vow not to be a token vote For the Democratic Party.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

These politicians are all the same. They'd sell their own mothers to stay in office.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

We should only suppport those who will support us.
Not those who just equated our relationships and marriages wih incest.

We destroyed the political career of Senator Santorum for this and humiliated him.

I doubt that we will do the same to Obama.
In a week, we will have all gone back to whining and begging.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

And has been inviting gays to suppers at the White House and Easter Egg hunts on the White House lawn.

Oh, and he has some official, salaried gay disciples, too.

Praise Obama from whom all blessings flow.

If Kucinich were serious about real change he wouldn't be a Democrat.  

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  

Working in that party, trying to influence it, bartering support for a few crumbs is a vast waste of energy and an exercise in futility and misleadership.

Elections don't create fundamental change in the US and haven't since Lincoln was elected. If a populist like him were to be elected now it be after the Democrats and Republicans were politically routed. Moreover it would signal the beginning of a combative political period when the question of who runs the state, the rich or working people would be up for grabs.

Forget the Democrats. They own the war. They own the recession maybe depression. They own homobigotry, racism and misogyny. They're as extinct as T-Rex, and like old Rex, way to dumb to have figured it out.  

The looter rich much prefer working with Democrats like Obama and the Clintons - they're greedier, they fool more people and they're able to get away with a lot more than Republicans.  

Secondly their real utility lies in the fact that they're a wonderful excuse to run candidates on a left LGBT program and explain what needs to be done to get real change. They're a valuable tool for organizing and nothing more.  

In most elections roughly one third to one half of the electorate sits it out because they're sick and tired of voting for the lesser bigot, the lesser warmonger and the lesser lap dog of the looter class. There is absolutely nothing wrong with voting by not voting. It's a perfectly legitimate reaction to a non-democratic rigged system that turns our bigot politicians by the bushel full and that gives us the choice of Obama or McCain, which is not a choice at all.

"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."

You can also post on the The White House's official facebook fan page that you oppose this defense of marriage inequality:
http://www.new.facebook.com/ho...

These are a few things you can do that wont take long at all, of course we all have to do more, but these are a few simple steps.

Has anyone else noticed that the links to this interview on various websites have been scrubbed?  When did that happen, I wonder, and why?  Who's responsible?  If anyone has information about this, I'd appreciate it, since I've alluded to it on my blog but want to have precise information if I blog further about it.

Shameful behavior by the Obama administration with DOMA--totally shameful.  Totally undermines all moral claims on which its progressive platform rests.

NEITHER party represents our interests, or ever will. That shoudl have been apparent when both Gore and Kerry ran as fast as they could from the GLBT community during their campaigns, when Clinton voted for DOMA and DADT. I've been to Clinton's library, which is basically a series of tiles with little writeups about the events of his Presidency in front of some memorabilia. The GLBT community gets just one of those tiles, and on it it talks about how DADT 'was never applied as it had been intended to be'. Interestingly, all mention of DOMA is absent-it would be pretty hard to argue that DOMA was not Clinton's fault, that it was just the fault of those who has implemented it improperly.

Now, donating money to the Democrats will just bring more of the same-Obama will assume that as long as he can attract dollars to his account, he's doing what he should be doing. If you want to send him a message that he's not doing what you want him to do, donate that money to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund-all the money goes to elect GLBT candidates.

The idea behind the Victory Fund is this: Obama, like every other politician, will say whatever he has to to win. He can afford to change his mind later, because he himself is not gay; our civil rights or lack thereof does not apply to him on any personal level, he has no stake in our survival or prosperity or happiness. He has no reason to care, so long as he can get a better funding stream from someone else. Besides, who else are you gonna donate to, Sarah Palin?

However, a GLBT person cannot escape the subject of GLBT civil rights, since those are their own rights. It is not just in their backyard, it's on their doorstep, and they can't get past it without dealing with it. So stop electing heterosexuals to advocate for you.

Elect your own kind. Nobody else can understand GLBT issues like a GLBT person.

http://www.victoryfund.org/home

Because every heterosexual you ever donate to will ultimately betray you, just like Obama did.

Vote smart. Vote for your own.

My dad was a steelworker
My mom was a kitchen girl
and that's why
I'm a socialist.
-from an old song I used to hum to myself

In 2012, there will be people here demanding that we all support Obama because "Gingrich(or whatever republican) will apppoint another Alito."

Well, Sotomayor is to the right of Souter, no huge win there other than we did not get a Scalia.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

It might be a nice physical representation of the size of our community.

It might be a nice physical representation of the size of our community.

I, like many others, questioned the value of March when Congress isn't around, but I'm starting to think maybe a march targeted at Obama's ear instead isn't a terrible idea.   (I'm not saying there aren't more effective ways to use time & money, but I'm also not sure that the same people who would be engaged by the idea of a March on Washington are the same people who would instead send a check equaling the amount of their travel expenses to a pro-lgbt group)

Second, Cheney's out of office and therefore irrelevant.  Obama knows that as surely as he knows whether Rick Warren is circumcised.

It's a lovely thought though--the first one I've had all day.  I may go to sleep tonight with visions of Cheney orating on a soapbox at Sheridan Square.  ;)

The American people, taking one with another, are the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages.
-H.L. Mencken

I give the DoJ and the President until June 28, the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall, to repudiate this, or do something. It was said that Obama was going to do something for our community in June, and I think the 40th Anniversary of Stonewall is a perfect time.

However, if nothing's happened by then, no more excuses.

Just curious...

I think it was in the Washington Blade or the Advocate sometime last month,...

If I remember correctly they quoted a Congressman as saying he expected Obama to do something major in June, but couldn't guarantee anything.

Anyway, it makes sense that if he were to do something like that it would be on June 28.

And what could 'it' be?

The ONLY way he could fix the Hiroshima atomic legal bomb he dropped on us on Monday and the Nagasaki atomic legal bomb he dropped on us today is if the White House has not a secret plan but a secret TIME MACHINE that can take him and us back to last Sunday.

A gay ambassador appointment? Might even be happening as I write this...BUT it's been done before....by Satan er Bill Clinton.

Obama march in a gay pride parade as Satan er Clinton never did? When Totie Fields rises from the dead and her missing leg grows back.

First Lady Michelle march in a gay pride parade as First Lady Mrs. Satan did? Maybe. Will that wash away this week's sins? When Marie Antoinette rises from the grave and finds her head.

As co-chairman of Obama's campaign, West was instrumental in helping the candidate raise an estimated $65 million in California .....
But West has a long resume: He has served in both the U.S. Department of Justice and the California Department of Justice, as well as the Clinton administration, where he was an aide to Attorney General Janet Reno.

His website is

http://freepages.genealogy.roo...

I know there are a lot of scott simpsons but it says in his bio

Thank you for visiting my site, "Scott Simpson's Virginia Genealogy"! I was born in Virginia, graduated from high school in Virginia, and attended the University of Virginia. (Notice a certain theme here?) While growing up, I often visited my grandparents and other relatives in and around Charlottesville and Waynesboro, Virginia.

I now live with my best friend -- who, thankfully, is also my wife -- and with our four delightful children (plus a dog, a cat, a bird, and some goldfish). Our youngest child was born in China. The story of her adoption, including our daily travel journal from May 2005, is here. At work, I'm an attorney with the United States government. Gustatorily, I'm absolutely crazy about Indian food; here's a list of most of the thirty or so Indian restaurants I've tried.

He's tossing us under the bus just like Clinton.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

FUCK 'EM.

And I have to wonder, where his the upside to this for Obama? He is nothing if not a shrewd political calculator. So are we really that toxic now? Can he make up our lost votes with extra votes from say, Latinos, or (name your group) next time? Is that what's going on? Or is he expecting us to be good little degenerates and not pay attention to the fact he has used us. Or he thinks we're too busy putting on our tiaras and pumping iron to even follow politics? I don't know.

What is the next expendable group for him? As the saying goes, first they came for the gypsies, and I said nothing because I wasn't a gypsy.  

Well, I am off to Europe for the weekend to hear friends again lecture me on why I need to leave the US.

Just how do I answer them now when my government compares me to an incest perpetrator?

My government.
My government equates me with a predator.

Even Bush's government never took a position that extreme against us.
They never, officially, through the DOJ, took such a position.

Cheney looks downright liberal and loveable compared to our "fierce advocate" who seems to be fiercely advocating that we accept marginalisation.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Ths one is disenheartening, though, sister, because it represents a betryal and in a week the neomattachinists at HRC and elsewhere will be telling us to calm down, be quiet and that Obama just needs time.

Has anyone of our "friends" ever damaged our position quite so quickly as President Obama? He certainly managed to do that without difficulty while managing the bailouts, the economy and security....See, he can multitask....

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

I just hope that when the 2010 midterms roll around, the LGBT community doesn't roll over a vote for Democratic candidates with the false hope they will do anything.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

Jim Messina, the deputy White House chief of staff who is the point man on gay and lesbian issues - 4 June 2009

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Does the President not get it? Does he not understand that we ask for a few basic things. 1) to serve openly and honestly in any capacity in service of our country if we wish. 2) the freedom to enter into a federally recognized civil marriage in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories and to have those marriages recognized as required by the full faith and credit clause. 3) the freedom to live peacefully and without discrimination in our own homes, communities, at school, and in the workplace.

Is that just TOO much to ask? I mean, we're just asking for our natural rights, for crying out loud. Sorry to be too much of an inconvenience, Mr. President, but my civil rights...

Someone needs to tell the President that this is not 1993 and he is not Bill Clinton.  

"I like your Christ, but do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ." ~Gandhi
"Upon the integrity, wisdom, and independence of the judiciary depend the sacred rights of free men and women."  

 I am sure you will be ticked off, but with the shape the republicans are in we democrats don't need your support.  But I also know the LGBT community will continue to vote for democrats because you all know what you will get from republicans.  So why should I as President address your issues.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.