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““He spent a lot of time listening.”

Yeah that is what I am afraid of.

I don’t WANT a listener. I sure don’t want a compromiser.

I want a candidate that will tell the minority Republicans to sit down and shut up.

I mean we are dealing with the party of Karl Rove and letting the sick suffer and die because they aint got the scratch for care. Ya don’t send Mr Roigers OR Mr Obama to do deals with the devil.

Geez haven’t we “compromised” away enough? Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

I suppose it is no conincidence that Obama is also a well known homophobe and supports bigots like donnie mccloset. After all, that is sebelius’ m.o. as well. So of course, Jill would see no problem with Obama and how he has iced out the LGBT community. Docking cares no more about them than her bff kathleen.

Who will be the next group they throw under the bus. Careful, it might just be yours.

I’m willing to bet she made a “choice” based on some promise of a job for her or less than chatty kathy.

Maybe they could be donnie mclurkin’s handlers? Birds of a feather and all…

Oh I wish I had read KFG’s post about the homophobe. Are you sure about that KFG?

Yes Pmom. google Donnie McClurkin and Obama and read all about it.

Obama let McClurkin MC a fundraising concert and then let him spout his bigoted, homophobic crap for THIRTY MINUTES at the end of the concert.

And Obama had refused to even apologize for it.

I wonder how he and his would feel if Hillary let David Duke MC a fundraiser and give a thirty minute speech at the end?

Somehow, I think they wouldnt like it.

Homophobia. The last accepted bigotry in America. Hell, I guess it can even get you elected presnit, depending on the group you are pandering. And guess who Obama is pandering to in South Carolina?

ksfg – the issue raise is, IMO, serious. Paul’s one, however, is bogus. It is based on the long-standing but still unsubstantiated rape claims the professional Clinton-haters have been spewing for decades.

No on both counts Sol. I’m back in the land of wingnuttia. :(

It’s snowing like a biotch here right now. I sure would rather be on a restaurant deck in Austin swilling marguritas and eating carne guisada with lots of onions, cilantro and serranos.

Oh hell, forget the tacos. I’ll just take the tequila.

And Tito’s Handmade Vodka from Austin!

It’s cold. DAMN cold up here. Wish I could tip a few with you back home. There was a seafood place in Austin. Right off 35 and by the lake. Had a HUGE deck with live oaks growing through. Ring a bell?

KFG?

Barack Obama and Gay Rights in Illinois: Barack Obama supported gay rights during his Illinois Senate tenure. He sponsored legislation in Illinois that would ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Barack Obama in the United States Senate: Every two years the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay and lesbian organization, issues a scorecard for members of the Senate based on their sponsorship and voting on key issues of importance to gay and lesbian citizens. Barack Obama scored 89 out of 100% in the 2006 scorecard. Here’s how HRC rated Barack Obama:
Barack Obama on Hate Crimes: Barack Obama co-sponsored legislation to expand federal hate crimes laws to include crimes perpetrated because of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Employment Non-Discrimination: Barack Obama supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and believes it should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell – Gays in the Military: Barack Obama believes we need to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. His campaign literature says, “The key test for military service should be patriotism, a sense of duty, and a willingness to serve.”
Gay & Lesbian Adoption: Barack Obama believes gays and lesbians should have the same rights to adopt children as heterosexuals.
Barack Obama and Gay Marriage/ Civil Unions: Although Barack Obama has said that he supports civil unions, he is against gay marriage. In an interview with the Chicago Daily Tribune, Obama said, “I’m a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman.”
Barack Obama did vote against a Federal Marriage Amendment and opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.

He said he would support civil unions between gay and lesbian couples, as well as letting individual states determine if marriage between gay and lesbian couples should be legalized.

“Giving them a set of basic rights would allow them to experience their relationship and live their lives in a way that doesn’t cause discrimination,” Obama said. “I think it is the right balance to strike in this society.”
Sources: Chicago Daily Tribune, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbianactivism/p/BarackObama.htm

P Mama – You beat me to it.

In case you are too lazy to look it up for yourself…

http://www.google.com/search?q=Donnie+McClurkin+%2B+Obama&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7HPID

I read his WORDS on the obama website.

I SAW his actions in South Carolina.

Now, which are YOU all going to believe. What obama says, or what he does?

KFG – I did look up Donnie McClurkin. And you tell me to watch what he does, not listen to what he says. However, you apparently either did not go to Pmoms link or mine to see that he did VOTE, which is an action, against the marriage act, and he did co-sponsor, which is an action, legislation to add sexuality to the hate crimes bill. I would think that what he actually does, and votes for, in politics would be more important than what he does on the campaign trail.

TDT, he’s done NOTHING the other two candidates havent done as well.

What he has done is let a bigoted homophobe headline, mc, and preach at a fundraiser.

I’ve yet to see Clinton or Edwards do either.

You didnt answer my question. Would it be just fine then, since Hillary and John have VOTED for civil rights for minorities, if they invited a Klan member to headline, mc and preach at one of their fundraisers?

That wouldnt bother you, since they VOTED a different way?

Yes,KFG, it would bother me a lot. And I see your point of view.

Woof. A wink and a nod. What are all those black church members gonna say when he VOTES in a way that is different than what he and his buddy mccloset promised?

No matter which way he votes, he LIED to someone here.

No KFG, not yankin’ your chain. But I find when I have a difficult decision to make, if I take the opposite position and have someone trying to convince me of something, it sometimes works. Don’t know if that makes sense to you. I am leaning towards Hillary after the LBJ and MLK comment and how Obama seemed to hop on that as some kind of racist comment, which I didn’t take it for.

So many quacks, so little time.
Wish I’d bookmarked snopes on this computer… wonder what they have to say about this?

Geez, parkay whining about obama is like, well, max and paulie whining about hillary. Expected, laughable, and scroll over territory.

Parkay – care to back up all those wild allegations? I agree with Real Butter – we should all have Snopes bookmarked for the likes of you!

I’m still learning about Obama. I reject Bill going back in the White House, regardless of what Hillary wants to do.

If a guy can say on CBS news ” I can’t vote for a colored as President”

Or women saying “because she’s lady, have to vote for Hillary”

I say Not Again Bill! I can’t watch America repeat our government officials, its spite more than anything else.

Bush running in 2000 was spite and we all felt it!

GOP was so in glee, they sold America out quick to energy. ENRON ran off to defraud electricity utilities. Natural Gas conspired with them. Oil companies got huge tax breaks and now with barrels costing $100 they are making sky high profits and the Bush government has never ordered them to build more refineries.

Political spite, GOP ruled the White House and majority in Congress. Tom Delay was powerful in the House. His buddy Jack Ambarmoff, super lobbyist made deals by blackmail and started laundering money to reward good Republicans. He bought access to a few Senate offices.

Vote for Hillary because she and Bill have to get back at those Republicans! Tear up that Contract on America Gingrich created. Bill has an ax to grind for the House impeaching him.

That’s a spiteful thought! Clinton’s will slow down government into more political partisanship fighting and obstruction.

GOP will promote Jeb Bush in 2012 have no doubt. Who is the next most experienced after this group of Republicans for President? Jeb is!

GOP for spite reasons only, will promote Jeb to the White House, one term Hillary. The Bush’s win! 16 years under a Bush and continuing. Jeb’s son George P. Bush is next.

Bush’s have tasted the highest power in America and don’t want to lose that access.

America is worse off playing this game between ego’s of those political families!

I liked this article.

Obama’s Varied Record

By CHRISTOPHER WILLS – 9 hours ago

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — By some measures, Barack Obama has a thin record. He’s a Senate newcomer who has never worked in the White House, governed a state or run a business.

Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton points to his resume as evidence that Obama is not ready for the White House. “He was a part-time state senator for a few years, and then he came to the Senate and immediately started running for president,” she says dismissively.

Obama’s accomplishments are more substantial and varied than Clinton suggests. And he has a longer record in elected office than she does, as a second-term New York senator.

Obama was a community organizer and led a voter-registration effort in Chicago that added tens of thousands of people to the rolls. He was a civil rights attorney and taught at one of the nation’s premier universities. He helped pass complicated measures in the Illinois legislature on the death penalty, racial profiling, health care and more. In Washington, he has worked with Republicans on nuclear proliferation, government waste and global warming, amassing a record that speaks to a fast start while lacking the heft of years of service.

The Illinois Democrat likes to quote something Bill Clinton once said: “The truth is, you can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.”

After college, Obama moved to Chicago for a low-paying job as a community organizer. He worked with poor families on the South Side to get improvements in public housing, particularly the removal of asbestos.

“Nobody else running for president has jumped off the career track for three or four years to help people,” said Jerry Kellman, who first hired Obama as a community organizer.

Obama also fought for student summer jobs and a program to keep at-risk children from dropping out of school. More importantly, say those who worked with Obama, he showed people how to organize and confront powerful interests.

“He had to train residents to stand up for their own rights,” said former organizer Loretta Augustine-Herron, who was part of Obama’s Developing Communities Project.

Obama left that job to get a law degree. Afterward, he returned to Chicago and ran Project VOTE. The organization recruited hundreds of registrars to sign up new voters, particularly within the city’s black population. Registration jumped nearly 15 points between the 1992 primary and the general election.

The registration wave was credited with making Carol Moseley Braun the first black female senator and helping Bill Clinton carry Illinois in his first presidential race. It also got insiders talking about Obama as a political candidate.

Obama then spent several years focusing on the law, both as an attorney at a small firm specializing in civil rights and as a lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago.

As an attorney, he was on the team that successfully sued the state of Illinois for failing to implement a federal voter-registration law. Obama also worked on case of a whistle-blower who lost her job after exposing waste and corruption in a medical research project. The whistle-blower ended up with a $5 million settlement.

Obama was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, when Democrats were in the minority. He proposed hundreds of new laws, including universal health care, tougher gun control and expanded welfare, but saw most of them spiked by Republican leadership.

He did have some successes, though — particularly in passing legislation sharply restricting the gifts that Illinois politicians could accept from lobbyists. Illinois has notoriously weak government ethics laws, and the Gift Ban Act was the first major new restriction since the Watergate era.

Obama also helped set up Illinois’ “KidCare” program that provided health care to children in families that did not qualify for Medicaid.

John Bouman, president of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, said Obama’s work helped make the program more consumer-friendly. He also said Obama was often willing to give up credit for the legislation if that helped win Republican support.

“It tells you something that as a relatively junior member in the minority party, he was an important negotiator,” Bouman said.

When Democrats gained a majority in the Senate, Obama’s political mentor, Senate President Emil Jones, gave him high-profile assignments, including two contentious issues involving police — videotaped interrogations and racial profiling.

Police weren’t happy about recording their interrogations of murder suspects or having to study racial bias in traffic stops. Initially, they opposed both pieces of legislation.

But Obama made clear that something was going to pass with or without their support. Ultimately, police groups endorsed both bills and they won unanimous approval in the Senate.

Obama was generally regarded as an effective and practical, although decidedly liberal, state lawmaker. One of his Republican colleagues was so wowed that he has appeared in an Obama campaign ad, but others aren’t impressed by his legislative record.

“I would say it was run of the mill, honestly,” said Sen. Christine Radogno, R-Lemont, who entered the legislature at the same time Obama did.

Obama was a part-time state senator in that he served in the Illinois legislature at the same time he practiced law. He became a state lawmaker in 1997, four years ahead of Hillary Clinton’s entrance into elected office, as U.S. senator.

When Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, he said he wished to get things done rather than grab headlines.

He teamed with Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., to study the dangers of nuclear proliferation and pass legislation meant to keep nuclear material from falling into the hands of terrorists.

Obama also joined with Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., after Hurricane Katrina to improve oversight of federal spending.

And he shared billing with a Republican presidential hopeful when he joined Arizona Sen. John McCain in sponsoring legislation that called for sharp, mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. The effort failed.

KFG and PoliMama. Please read Obama’s own words on the subject. It’s an Op-Ed that came out immediately after the McClurkin Incident, called “A Call For Full Equality.” It begins:

“Over the last several weeks, the question of LGBT equality was placed on center stage by the appearance of Donnie McClurkin at one of my campaign events. McClurkin is a talented performer and a beloved figure among many African Americans and Christians around the country. At the same time, he espouses beliefs about homosexuality that I completely reject.”

I’m not sure how much more definitive a statement you can make on the topic. Obama is about inclusion, not division. Please direct me to ANY other candidate with this clear a statement in support of equal rights. Obama cannot be held accountable for one man’s actions one time, especially when he came out immediately with an op-ed denouncing his comments. Has he put Donnie on stage since? NEVER.

Wedge issue: BUSTED.

OMG, so the Kansas Senate Democrats endorse Obama a day after jill docking?

Nice try gov. Are we supposed to believe now that you would EVER endorse a different democrat after your best friend and then your butt boy Hensley and all the good little germans in the Senate endorse Obama.

riiiiiight

So you agreed you wouldnt endorse anyone before you did Pelosi’s bidding after the State of the Union? You just sent out everyone you are close to so THEY could endorse Obama and we are to believe you are neutral?

riiiiiiight

Now I REALLY hope Hillary gets the nod. That would put you and yours shit outta luck. I doubt the Clintons will buy your contrived “neutrality”. You ALWAYS try to have it both ways, and someday, it’s bound to catch up with you.

Sometimes, in her weasly ways, governor “leadership” is just too clever by half.