Comments on: Withers: Obama likes to play both sides

By: dog97209

dog97209 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:42:49 +0000

In the spirit of Harvey Milk, HRC needs to step up on rights. We a Rev Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, a high profile gay who can draw news cameras to, say Camp Pentleton, and declare loudly injustices against gays so people can see for themselves the scope of evil against gays in this supposedly free country. Little progress is really been made on our rights and won’t till we put it in front of citizens.

By: tjr

tjr — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:53:27 +0000

Obama keeps pandering to both sides knowing fully that the right in America will never like him and accept him. They just want to see his birth certificate.

By: ducdebrabant

ducdebrabant — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:30:32 +0000

I wish the writer had told m specifically what Kemp did to hurt me. I don’t recall him in particular among the anti-gay pantheon.

By: Yukkuri

Yukkuri — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:47:41 +0000

To be honest, the only way I’m seeing these awards is just Obama avoiding the social issues. Sure, he’ll give us a gay pride month, benefits for federal workers, award a now-dead activist (never mind the punishment his killer got), and promise that he’ll work on DADT. But where’s the substance? I’m not seeing it. It’s like he’s throwing bones and hoping we’ll just run away.

By: Gerry Fisher

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:44:54 +0000

I also think that it takes a person of high character to get knocked out of the running for president, to accept a “lesser” role, and then to knock the ball out of the park in a lesser role.

Hilary Clinton is in the process of attempting to do that right now, and I give her *tons* of credit for it. She could have stayed out of administration, lurked in the background, waited for a moment of weakness, and then leveraged the situation for her own presidential ambitions. What she’s doing right now took guts…I admire her for it.

By: Gerry Fisher

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:41:19 +0000

>What’s so good about Kemp?

I’m totally not going to remember the details, but I remember reading that he did a surprisingly (for those of us on the Left) darn good job at HUD.

By: Gerry Fisher

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:40:17 +0000

Anyone who feels that honoring both of these men cheapens the award is probably operating out of the idea that there is a Good Group and a Bad Group. (That’s the very definition of “partisan,” I guess.)

I think it gets easier to understand if you come at it from the angle of “A job well done.” In that framework, it’s very possible for someone with a world view that I don’t like to pick a project, execute it very well, and help people.

By: randy

randy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:39:26 +0000

What’s so good about Kemp? Was it his hair, voodoo economics, or just the fact that he died in the right year?