Comments on: Obama tells huge Dem crowd he’ll fix Washington

By: Trace

Trace — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:25:05 +0000

Well Todd, it’s quite possible he never saw how inter-racial couples were treated. His parents didn’t have anything that you could consider to be a long term relationship. His father basically impregnated his mother and then went off and impregnated another woman.

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:28:18 +0000

How can Obama who is half-black and coming from an interracial couple treat gay couples the same way his parents were treated less than 60 years ago?

I was appalled and disgusted when he mentioned gay marriage and support for less than equal treatment in the same sentence about no discrimination – and the people in the stadium just cheered and applauded it, it was terrible.. :\

By: Trace

Trace — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:23:00 +0000

I had been a life long Republican at one point. Then, during one State of the Union Address, I heard George W. Bush speak about how marriage is between one man and one woman. The following day I changed my voter registration.

There was no way that I could support someone that did not believe that I deserved all the rights of any straight person.

Obama does not believe we deserve those rights. He’s said it repeatedly

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:18:42 +0000

If you settle for less, that is exactly what you are going to get. Human rights do not improve for the better by fighting for mediocrity.

By: Chris Sullivan

Chris Sullivan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:23:01 +0000

This is naive. Maintaining a strict ideology and LOSING is grossly counter-productive. ALL politics is INCREMENTAL. Only one of the two nominees is going to win. Period. There are NO other options. NOT voting is a vote FOR McCain in a tight election. Yes, it sucks to have to settle for less than your ideal but what is the alternative? LOSE to someone who is far more against you? That is simply naive and ridiculous. Better to elect someone who is FAR CLOSER to your school of thought and encourage people in that direction, than to withhold your support and by default, support someone who is FAR AWAY from your school of thought. It’s easy for Paul Colichman, who is rich, to pontificate and prop himself up as some pure idealist – but living in a fantasy world helps nobody. Sure we all WANT what he states – but it is NOT AN OPTION with these two people this time out! THE REALITY is that there is HARD, INCREMENTAL WORK TO BE DONE and Colichman views do nobody any good. WE KNOW PAUL AND YES, WE AGREE THAT IN AN IDEAL WORLD, THINGS WOULD BE THE WAY YOU SAY – BUT WE AREN’T RICH LIKE YOU (though you are probably rich because of US!) WE HAVE TO LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD DEAR! So please, do us a favor and S.T.F.U.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:57:04 +0000

Yeah I agree, especially after the way he spoke of gay marriage in his speech during the Democratic Convention. It was a little chilling to hear people roar and cheer in support of what he said when it wasn’t about full equality for gay people but some kind of second class status.

By: Bud Evans

Bud Evans — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:41 +0000

Page Six of the New York Post is reporting that “gay media czar” Paul Colichman 46, (owner of The Advocate and Out magazines, GayWired.com, and Here, the premium cable network for gays) has ruffled more than a few feathers within his own group of fellow Democrats and fellow media moghuls by saying that he will never endorse or vote for Barack Obama in the upcoming Presidential election.

Colichman’s reason for turning a cold shoulder to Obama? It was because of Barack Obama’s answer to Rick Warren’s question (at the Saddlebrook Forum) about how, exactly, the Democratic nominee for President defines marriage; Obama said that he defined marriage as a union only between a man and a woman…not between people of the same gender.

“I had literally written out a check to the Obama campaign. And then I saw him in front of an evangelical group in Anaheim,” he said.

Before Rick Warren at the Saddleback Civil Forum, both Obama and McCain defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. “I thought, ‘Wow! He just threw the gay community under the bus,’ ” Colichman said. “My partner looked over at me, and we tore up the check.”

“If we always vote for the lesser of two evils, if we accept their crumbs and platitudes, if we write checks to candidates who don’t stand up for us, aren’t we being self-destructive?” he argues.

(source: New York Post)