I don’t know where you’re from, Rodney, but ever since Mr. Frank had his little scandal we have known him to be gay. You asked, “…why should anyone be telling gay and lesbian voters to support Obama?” Well, Mr. Frank, an admittedly gay man, has given his opinion, an opinion to which he is entitled to by our Constitution. Perhaps you should research Mr. Frank’s record a little more. He has been a staunch supporter of his LGBT family, regardless of whether or not his position has been popular.

Rick said:
“Perhaps you should research Mr. Frank’s record a little more.”

It is explained in depth in Wikipedia:

“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank”

I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Frank. I think he lives up to his name. Perhaps he will be nominated for President or VP one day.

Rodney, you must be sipping at the sherry again. Rerealing DADT, enacting hate crimes legislation, passing employment non-discrimination, repealing DOMA, and opposing the repeal of Califoirnia’s equal marriage law are all supported by Obama and all opposed by McPain. The choice is clear, unless you are a self-hating gay person who values right wing religious intolerance over equal rights and justice for all.

Biden Makes Even a Moron Like GW Look Good Speechifying…

…Zzzzzzzzzz….zzzzzzzzzz…zzzzz…Oh!….I’m awake…Really…I was just watching Joe Biden’s…..zzzzzz….uh…zzzzz….speech…zzzzz…on…zzzz….tele…zzzz….vison.

…ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…..Snore!!!

… [wipes sleep-drool off from side of mouth and continues]…

Wow! That was really painful listening to Joe Biden butcher his VP nomination speech last night. It was like listening to a torturous thirty minute string of verbal type-Os. The text was agonizingly dull and uninspiring. I didn’t think that it was possible, but gosh, Obama looks even more brilliant standing next to ol’ bumbling Joe. Great pick! It’s like wearing an old shoe on one foot and a new shoe on the other. That sure makes the new shoe look fresh.

But before I digress, here is just an example of one of Biden‘s many missteps. Biden gleefully announces: “When John McCain proposes $200 billion in new TAXES for corporate America, $1 billion alone for just eight of the largest companies, but no relief for 100 million American families, that’s not change; that’s more of the same.”

(Hmmm…that makes McCain sound like my kind of guy — more taxes on greedy oil companies. How cool is that?)

But it should have read: “When John McCain proposes $200 billion in new TAX BREAKS for corporate America, $1 billion alone for just eight of the largest companies, but no relief for 100 million American families, that’s not change; that’s more of the same.”

Biden didn’t even pick up on this huge flub. Jeeez…how the omission of just one little word can totally change the entire tenor of your speech — especially if you drone on without even correcting your errors. He didn’t even have a clue. Come over to Denver Dan Quayle and meet your new daddy!

But I agree with Biden though on one salient point he made in his speech, we really do need more “cheeechers in America“. Uh…read…“teachers“.

He said it, I didn’t.

Of course the delivery was even worse. I lost count of how many times he mangled the Queen’s English. Even Obama’s contrived “surprise” appearance at the end of this snoozer couldn’t have saved the evening.

When Ring Master Barack rushed out on stage and whispered to Biden: “Great Speech!” I kept thinking…ohhhh…this man really is a really good liar. Perfect qualification for any politician. But, in his mind, I’m sure Obama was fantasizing about running out thirty-minutes earlier with a hanky soaked in chloroform to put over ol’ Joe‘s bumbling mouth. I swear I saw Barack reaching out with a long curved cane from behind the curtain several times trying to hook Biden’s neck in order to drag him off stage.

After he came to Biden’s “surprised” rescue Wednesday night, Obama then addressed the crowd: “Good evening Ladies and Germs…thanks for coming…don’t forget the carnival continues tomorrow at the big top across the street…hurry…hurry…hurry…get your pop corn…peanuts…cracker jacks…giant foam hands and silly hats…see the bearded lady…the dog-faced boy…the former first lady eating crow…come one…come all…the show is about to begin!”

Yep, I can’t wait for tomorrow. I’m waiting on the edge of my seat with the rest of the GLBT community…waiting to see if Obama will use the magic “G” word.

As I write this, I am chewing on my “gay” fingernails, and wringing my “gay” hands in feverish “gay” anticipation. I am wondering, along with the fearless leadership of the GLBT community: Will he mention us in his acceptance speech? Will the great emancipator of the homosexual race give us a verbal thumbs up or a silent thumbs down?

Oh, my “gay” heart is going all pitter patter! Will Obama say it…oh I’m sooooo nervous…I think I just “gay” peed a little in my “gay” pants….will he say the “G” word in his speech?

I don’t care if he thinks that homos are not worthy of the word marriage, and that all of the GLBT delegates basically had to wear bags over their heads at the convention, and that the six percent of gay delegates were being managed and kept on the “down-low” — getting a compulsory cultural crash course (how’s that for alliteration?) in Black homosexual etiquette, at the convention.

So move over urban myth gerbils, I am a “love that dare not speak its name” political lemming now.

I don’t care about Equality…Respect…any of that crap. I just want Obama to use the word GAY in his acceptance speech!

And Goddamn it, if he does…he’s got my vote.

…not!

© Bud Evans, 2008 (from Rainfish2000 on Blogspot)

Nicely done Rodney, would you have us vote for the oppressor, McBush for 4 to 8 more long years of one long national scream? That is what Bush was like to me. I wept heavily when Gore didn’t get the White House. I knew what the alternative meant, it was Bush= more global warming thanks to inaction from the USA, more refusal to ratify any future international commitments toward curbing the global warming that is melting the Arctic ice more and more rapidly, wiping out the polar bears and raising sea levels,more environmental destruction in our part of the globe, more heavily polluted air, water and land, no movement on the major gay rights issues, one of the Western world’s few remaining officially closeted militaries, more demands from the White House for an amendment to the US Constitution to ban gay marriage and civil unions, no gay adoption of children allowed, maybe allowing gays to be fired for being gay, no transgender protections, no reuniting of binational gay families, less push maybe toward alternative fuels and less promotion of new public transportation technologies that might be cleaner and less polluting, less push for even more fuel efficient cars, less push for moving beyond dependence on fossil fuels of which there is just so much.

The potential for this country to be stuck in the 1950s with McBush and not moving into the 21st century is too great to ignore.

And like it or not, since Kucinich who would have strongly pushed for gay marriage and would have made a difference in our land was not glamorous enough for the Hillary and Obama-blinded GLBT community, we HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO VOTE FOR OBAMA OF THE BRAYING, RAH-RAH CHEERLEADER TONE.

Did Rodney Moore vote for Kucinich who would have pushed gay marriage as president, if not he has no call to complain that we wound up with Obama. It’s Obama or McSame, that is what our land faces now and since 1st best wasn’t good enough for us gays, we are stuck with electing 2nd best Obama, great on civil rights, tragically thin on US senatorial experience.

So, I am voting for Joe Biden, his VP more than I voting for Obama. Obama is a no choice situation; that is why I voting for him.

Cyndi Luaper for President!!! The World needs more people like her!!!!!

The people who are supposed to be fighting for equal rights should not be endorsing anyone who offers any less than full equality. It is up to every voter to decide which other issues have weight to them, and how much weight. The voter can then decide if they’re willing to accept less than a promise of full equality from their chosen candidate. The HRC, should not consider anything other than which candidate, or which party is fully endorsing their stated mission. In my opinion, that means the HRC and all other gay rights organizations should endorse the Green Party. Their “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” Plank reads:In keeping with the Green values of diversity and social justice, we support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender or sexual orientation.
a. We affirm the right of all individuals to choose intimate partners regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation.
b. We support equal rights of all persons, regardless of sexual orientation, to housing, jobs, civil marriage, medical benefits, child custody, and in all areas of activity enjoyed by all citizens.
c. We support language in state and federal anti-discrimination law that secures the rights of intersex
individuals and prohibits discrimination based on gender identity. We are opposed to intersex genital mutilation.
d. All persons have the right to determine their gender identity and sex and their choice may not be overridden
by police authority. We support access to medical and surgical treatment for reassignment of gender or sex.
e. We support legislation against all all forms of hate crimes directed against people who identify as lesbian,
gay, bisexual, queer, transgender and intersex.

Until the Democrats understand that they can’t take the GLBTI vote for granted, they will continue to take our votes without delivering on their promises. At this point, they’re not even bothering to promise us anything. Why should they? The HRC will continue to endorse them as “the lesser of two evils,” rather than only endorsing candidates/parties that actually want to deliver our rights to us.

Did Rodney vote for Kuicinich? No, because by the time the primary reached my state, he had already dropped out and he and his ideas were not given any respect by the Democratic Party.

Second, I vote in Barney Frank’s district in Massachusetts and he is nothing but an *ss. He is no more interested in gay rights than the person on the street. Barney Frank is an uncle tom to the gay community, he is more of a Democrat than a homosexual, to put it bluntly he’s a Democrat before a human being. Tammy Baldwin is the only person who represents us in Congress, Frank represents himself and his party and nothing more.

Third, I have more reason to hate Bush than the majority of you. I live abroad, am in a bi-national couple, and I was a Katrina refugee. But with all that said, this 2008 election is NOT about Bush, he isn’t running. McBama and O’Cain are not George Bush, but if you look closer at their records and their platforms(as an intelligent voter would do) you would see that O’Cain and McBama’s platforms are not that different, especially on gay issues.

I was a Democrat in 2004, and I remember the Stonewall Democrats making a strong statement that they would not endorse anyone who opposed marriage equality. Of course, in the end, they had to pick between Dean and Kerry and they endorsed Kerry despite his opposition to marriage equality both in Massachusetts and in the rest of America.

Both McBama and O’Cain oppose marriage equality. And marriage equality is the most important issueS(plural) effecting gay and lesbian Americans. Everything from college financial aid, to immigration to social security to home loans, to credit cards to healthcare is effected by one’s marital status. Marriage is such a common human right that even death row inmates have it, as do mentally incapacitated persons. Barack McBama and John O’Cain both oppose this most basic, most human of human rights for gay and lesbian Americans. And I will not vote for anyone, who opposes the most basic right for gays and lesbians. And I firmly believe that gay people who support either one of these two bafoons, are shooting themselves in the foot.

I still remain unconvinced that Obama is going to be any better than what has been in Washington for the last one hundred years. I see nothing outstanding about Obama, I do not completely believe he will help the LGBT community as much as what is being promoted. His stand for the LGBT community at best is weak.

As for what many think concerning taxation, he as well as many others in Washington are very good at making it appear that they lower taxes. I believe McCain, that is McCain not McBush, very childish to be speaking publicly in that manner. McCain will increase taxation on Americans but so will Obama. Obama has voted repeatedly to protect illegal aliens, he has supported sanctuary cities. Obama supports allowing 500,000 more foriegn workers per year into the U.S. when there are already more than 8 million U.S. citizens out of work. Health care costs raise mostly due to free health care given to millions of illegal aliens. The cost to American tax payers per year in combined costs due to illegal aliens is nearly one trillion dollars per year and with Obama’s open border wishes this cost is estimated to surpass the national debt by the year 2015.

I am amazed at how blind most Americans are. We are very good at condeming other countries for being communist or under a dictatorship. Take a close look at Washington, the president is basicly nothing more than a figure head. The Senate is were the real power is. Americans vote to keep the same people in the senate for a life time, many in the U.S. senate have been there for more than thirty years. This is a self appointed dictatorship. How many of you know that Mr. Obama supports the North American Union? This NAU is set to begin it’s beginning in 2010 which means the United States Constitution will begin it’s road to becoming null and void. How will this help the LGBT community?

Do you really believe we will have a voice and egual rights when we are under control by a trilateral government? Washington is not under control of “we the people” but rather global corporations which Mr. Obama has made votes in support of. So when I hear people say Obama and McCain are the same I must agree because they are both part of the global machine that looks at “we the people” as nothing more than a source of tax dollars. Come on this is the year 2008 and in America which is said to be the land of the free is still tied up in unequal rights for all. If the dems are so concerned about our equal rights why are we still fighting a battle of equal rights? They have had control long enough to have really changed things if they really cared.

Term limits for all elected in Washington and get rid of this two party dictatorship. Americans citizens are the ones to make changes not the elected, they work for us remember.

I did support Representative Kucinich and then supported Senator Clinton. I feared that Senator Obama would start mving to the right and that suspicion turned out to be well founded.

I will vote for him, after a couple of shots of Jemmies and while holding my nose to make the bitter medicine go down. Yes, I will vote for him, because the alternative is worse.

The LGBT community could have made a huge bump in Kucinich’s numbers had we truly backed someone who backed us. We didn’t. We reaped what we sowed.

It amazes me that no-one has brought up that McCain voted against a Martin Luther King day for the state of Arizona. Hopefully, Barack Obama will tonight.

Some of you need to know a bit more about Barney Franks. He is gay, gay, gay.The man is looking out for us in the Senate. Where ever do you goe the ideas that he is a Democrat working only for his party? How else is he supposed to try to get legislation done? Not by working at Subways or Wal-Mart[which by the way is one of the worst equal rights anti-gay employers around]. We need a man like him to fight for us in a str8 majority government. If you think we need equal rights, we have Obama. McCain offers nothing for glbt’s,don’t be fooled by his fake platitudes on any social issues. He is only for his own rich friends and their stocks and interests in making them richer. Wake up and smell the coffee. Obama is the only one who stands for us little people, if you are well read and follow the news you’d know this. Do you want 4 more years of Busch or what? Peace

It occurs to me that the US is about the only major western country that does not provide recognition of un-married committed couples (regardless if sames-sex or not)… otherwise known as common-law.

I would think that addressing the antiquated notion that only married couples count would go a long way towards changing perceptions about the different types of relationships that can exist.. And there are untapped allies like AARP that would support such a battle.

No, thank you, Obama is not the one for me. I do not need the liberal’s idea of gay rights. I don’t need any “Gay Rights” at all. I want equal rights! We must have equal rights. The way we win is by showing everyone must have the same rights and that no one is harmed by one person having that right.

Please tell me you are not using Wikipedia as reference material? You do realize it is truth by consensus? If no challenges information it stands, hardly a credible place to get any kind of controvercial information.

Well, Bud, he said it! He used the word “gay” in his speech. I’ll see you at the polls!

You make some valid points, Rodney, but your logic falls apart. By your logic gay people cannot vote for anyone for president until we get a candidate that is 100% pro same-sex marriage equality. There are two built-in reality checks here: 1. It is rare that we ever get exactly what we want and exactly the way we want it. We often have to take a piece at a time. Refer to the civil rights struggles of Native Americans and blacks in the U.S. for innumerable examples. 2. Those who choose not to participate in the election of their government certainly have the right to complain, just as those of us who make a choice believing things will get better based on our choice have the right to ignore the whining of those that don’t bother to try.

I would appreciate a reference to a reputable news source for your declaration that Senator Obama supports the North American Union. Even if this were fact it would not necessarily be detrimental to LGBT individuals and families. If we were to make progress in this country then you would have two-thirds of the governments of the illusory NAU supportive of us and our families.

GREAT SITE THIS IS JUST THE THING WE AS A GAY NATION SHOULD BE AVAILABLE AND I AM THANKFUL WE HAVE IT!!!