Comments on: Ruby-Sachs: Obama, Don’t Defend DOMA

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:42:53 +0000

WRITE THE PRESIDENT:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

By: Robert, NYC

Robert, NYC — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:23:43 +0000

The reality is, Obama of all people believes in segregation. He equates civil unions with full equality. He needs to re-read the Warren court decision on civil rights declaring that “separate is never equal.”

Why do so many of us insist that he’s for us? It was a political campaign ploy to get elected and he used us to get there, just like all the others. He’s just a moderate conservative dressed in progressive clothing, but he’s anything but progressive. Unfortunately, religion is in his mix, more than our full equality. That’s never going to change. The only way to force the dems to do anything on DADT, DOMA, ENDA and marriage equality is to puth them on notice right now that they can no longer depend on our votes in 2010 and 2012, en masse. We need a national spokesperson to get that message out, loud and clear and the time to do it is NOW. No more political correctness, it doesn’t work.

By: Jennifer Diane Reitz

Jennifer Diane Reitz — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:11:42 +0000

Obama is not our friend; he is just a politician, nothing more. He is no better than any other political hack, and he will not keep his promises any better than any before him.

He never was any kind of savior; he was just marginally better than his alternative.

It’s time to face that, sadly.

By: Trace

Trace — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:05:13 +0000

Obama … Change You Can’t Believe In

By: Al

Al — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:11:50 +0000

All the suckers for change keep on dreaming

By: Veronica Onassis

Veronica Onassis — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:44:20 +0000

lets hold our breaths and hope for the best. I fear that “Change” did not board the Obama train when he arrived in Washington. It apparently got lost somewhere in the campaing trail.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:23:56 +0000

I for one am not holding my breath. Why, cause here in IL, he was all for Same Sex marriage… YES, it is on record and you can look it up. THENNNNN, he runs for office and guess what… he turns his “opinion” to something a bit more “middle ground” so he don’t offend anyone by going against Mariage and going for “civil unions”. Demy’s just speak our names and pat the good dog on the head to keep them happy. It IS TIME for us to bite the hand that feeds us. This country has turned into “save your own backside and damn the rest”. Too many cooks spoil the soup… well same goes true for too many lawyers spoil the country.

Someone should remind our “little pres” up there that Lincoln was AGAINST freeing the slaves, owned them himself, and it was majority AGAINST freeing the slaves, but was going through the motion… why cause it was the RIGHT thing to do, not the Majority wants rule…

People need to read up on their history, if Majority ruled and courts did not regulate it, we be speaking German and having slaves yet… or maybe starting to free the slaves, depends on things… but you see the point.

We need someone up on the hill that don’t do the “wag the dog” style things, or look at polls THEN form their “opinion”… someone with oh, what do they call it… BACKBONE!!!

By: TigerTzu

TigerTzu — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:56:00 +0000

I don’t expect any positive response from Obama or his administration. Well done though, Emma. You deserve a round of applause and a hearty “thank you” from the GLBT community. Thank you.

By: RandyL

RandyL — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:19:14 +0000

Don’t hold your breath on this…the flip flop is more than figurative for him when it comes to us. He will turn cartwheels in the rose garden to deny us our rights.