*DISCLAIMER: This is not a political message, for once ;)
It is just a shame how selfish some people are, who are so out for themselves that they do not care who they hurt or how far the "fallout" of their actions reaches. One of my dearest friends, who means the world to me, was completely used by one of these types of people and then kicked to the curb like trash. As a result, he's going to probably lose his house (that he has put so much work and pride into) and need to get a THIRD job to make ends meet as a result of all of this. It makes my heart absolutely ache to see what he's having to go through right now.
This just goes to show how important it is, especially in times like these, that we look out for one another and surround ourselves with genuine and caring people who will build us up and enrich our lives rather than tear us down and deflate our spirits.
I also believe that we have a God in heaven who loves each and every one of us and shares our hurts. I understand some of you don't believe in God, and I respect that. However, for those of us who do, it's a great comfort to know he's looking over us and shares our hurts with us.
Let's take care of each other folks, and I challenge each and every one of you to call at least five people who you are thankful for and appreciative of, and let them know that, especially if it's someone you haven't told that to in a long time.
And if any of you ever just need to talk to someone who will be there to listen, remember that wherever you are, I'm just a phone call or e-mail away.
Love,
Casey
(760) 835-8563
SuiGeneris1122@aol.com
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
McCain WILL Confront Obama About Ayers In Final Debate!
By Andy Barr, Politico. com
(Oct. 14) - John McCain said Tuesday that Barack Obama is "probably ensured" that his association with 1960s radical William Ayers will come up in Wednesday’s debate.
"I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised that I didn't have the guts" to bring up Ayers, McCain said on KMOX, a St. Louis radio station.
"I think he is probably ensured that it will come up this time.
"
McCain was responding to Obama's charge last week that the Arizona senator was willing to make attacks on the campaign trail that he would not say in person.
"I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face," Obama said. "But I guess we've got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate.
"
Obama has also accused McCain of trying to score "cheap political points" by bringing up Ayers.
Despite challenging Obama on the association, McCain insisted that he does not care about the "old washed-up terrorist" but said that the Illinois Democrat is not "being truthful about the relationship.
© 2008 Capitol News Company LLC
2008-10-14 14:58:55
(Oct. 14) - John McCain said Tuesday that Barack Obama is "probably ensured" that his association with 1960s radical William Ayers will come up in Wednesday’s debate.
"I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised that I didn't have the guts" to bring up Ayers, McCain said on KMOX, a St. Louis radio station.
"I think he is probably ensured that it will come up this time.
"
McCain was responding to Obama's charge last week that the Arizona senator was willing to make attacks on the campaign trail that he would not say in person.
"I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face," Obama said. "But I guess we've got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate.
"
Obama has also accused McCain of trying to score "cheap political points" by bringing up Ayers.
Despite challenging Obama on the association, McCain insisted that he does not care about the "old washed-up terrorist" but said that the Illinois Democrat is not "being truthful about the relationship.
© 2008 Capitol News Company LLC
2008-10-14 14:58:55
Could The Polls Be Wrong? Obama and the "Bradley Effect"
Interesting article on CNN. com today, especially since it's so disgusting how that T.V. network has shown such pro-Obama bias . . .
(Oct. 14) - Sen. Barack Obama has a sizable lead over Sen. John McCain, polls show, but those numbers could be deceiving if the "Bradley effect" comes into play.
The Bradley effect is named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who ran for California governor in 1982.
Exit polls showed Bradley leading by a wide margin, and the Democrat thought it would be an early election night.
But Bradley and the polls were wrong. He lost to Republican George Deukmejian.
The theory was that polling was wrong because some voters, who did not want to appear bigoted, said they voted for Bradley even though they did not.
"People will usually tell you how they voted after the election, but we found in the Bradley campaign ... that people were actually not telling us who they voted for," said Charles Henry, who researched Bradley's election.
The Bradley effect is also called the "Wilder effect," after Douglas Wilder, Virginia's former governor. He won by just one-tenth of a percent, but as he pointed out to CNN, "people forget -- in the exit polls, I was still double-digits ahead.
"
According to CNN's latest poll of polls, Obama is leading McCain by 8 percentage points, 50 to 42.
Some analysts say the race could be much closer or even tied if the Bradley effect is factored in.
iReport. com: iReporter pleads with voters to 'stop the racism'
"It leaves a question mark over this race, and we won't have the final answer until the votes are counted," said David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN.
But there could be an opposite effect, Wilder said.
"There's going to be a reverse Wilder or Bradley effect. ... There are some Republicans who are not going to say out front that they're going to be voting for Obama, but they're going to be, because the economy is what's driving people to consider what's in their best interest," he said.
Some analysts say the Bradley effect can account for 6 percentage points against an African-American candidate.
Michelle Obama told CNN's Larry King that a lot has changed since Bradley lost.
"That was several decades ago, and I think there's been growth and movement," she said. "I just believe that the issues are going to weigh in people's hearts more so as they go into the voting booths this time around.
"
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said last week that he thinks the Bradley effect could cost Obama several battleground states -- and possibly the presidency.
Race "is still a problem in this country," Brown told CNN. "It goes away when there are other troubles that are more challenging, and right now, whether or not we survive in the economy is more challenging. But race could rear its ugly head. I just hope it doesn't before November 4.
"
In the past 15 years or so, there's been no indication in the polls that the Bradley effect has been a factor in statewide races.
Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst, said that if there is racism in this year's election, it's probably already showing up in the polls.
And Keating Holland, CNN's polling director, pointed out another important caveat:
"We've never had a black presidential candidate as a major nominee, so the polls don't have any history at all when it comes to national elections," he said.
© 2008 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
(Oct. 14) - Sen. Barack Obama has a sizable lead over Sen. John McCain, polls show, but those numbers could be deceiving if the "Bradley effect" comes into play.
The Bradley effect is named after former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African-American who ran for California governor in 1982.
Exit polls showed Bradley leading by a wide margin, and the Democrat thought it would be an early election night.
But Bradley and the polls were wrong. He lost to Republican George Deukmejian.
The theory was that polling was wrong because some voters, who did not want to appear bigoted, said they voted for Bradley even though they did not.
"People will usually tell you how they voted after the election, but we found in the Bradley campaign ... that people were actually not telling us who they voted for," said Charles Henry, who researched Bradley's election.
The Bradley effect is also called the "Wilder effect," after Douglas Wilder, Virginia's former governor. He won by just one-tenth of a percent, but as he pointed out to CNN, "people forget -- in the exit polls, I was still double-digits ahead.
"
According to CNN's latest poll of polls, Obama is leading McCain by 8 percentage points, 50 to 42.
Some analysts say the race could be much closer or even tied if the Bradley effect is factored in.
iReport. com: iReporter pleads with voters to 'stop the racism'
"It leaves a question mark over this race, and we won't have the final answer until the votes are counted," said David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN.
But there could be an opposite effect, Wilder said.
"There's going to be a reverse Wilder or Bradley effect. ... There are some Republicans who are not going to say out front that they're going to be voting for Obama, but they're going to be, because the economy is what's driving people to consider what's in their best interest," he said.
Some analysts say the Bradley effect can account for 6 percentage points against an African-American candidate.
Michelle Obama told CNN's Larry King that a lot has changed since Bradley lost.
"That was several decades ago, and I think there's been growth and movement," she said. "I just believe that the issues are going to weigh in people's hearts more so as they go into the voting booths this time around.
"
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown said last week that he thinks the Bradley effect could cost Obama several battleground states -- and possibly the presidency.
Race "is still a problem in this country," Brown told CNN. "It goes away when there are other troubles that are more challenging, and right now, whether or not we survive in the economy is more challenging. But race could rear its ugly head. I just hope it doesn't before November 4.
"
In the past 15 years or so, there's been no indication in the polls that the Bradley effect has been a factor in statewide races.
Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst, said that if there is racism in this year's election, it's probably already showing up in the polls.
And Keating Holland, CNN's polling director, pointed out another important caveat:
"We've never had a black presidential candidate as a major nominee, so the polls don't have any history at all when it comes to national elections," he said.
© 2008 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Barack Obama Is NOT the "Gay Friendly" Candidate
Let's look at the cold, hard facts, as tough as they may be for some of you to swallow:
As a gay man, I have been shocked and downright ashamed of the way so many gay men blindly think that just because they are gay, they MUST vote for a liberal Democrat like Barack Obama. What is even more pathetic is the fact that so many of my fellow gay men do not realize that God gave them a brain so they can think intelligently FOR THEMSELVES about issues completely irrelvant to the gay agenda, such as: abortion, affirmative action, economy, edcuation, environment, national security, offshore drilling, the war in Iraq, etc., etc.
However, even if "gay issues" are all that you care about in this election, let's examine Barack Obama's record in that arena to "clear the air" once and for all (feel free to "fact check" all you want as everything I am about to say can be confirmed 100%):
1.) Despite protests from the gay community, Barack Obama has continued to stand behind an anti-gay minister, the Rev. Donnie McClurkin.
In fact, Rick Garcia, a long time gay rights activist who founded Equality Illinois, went as far to say the following:
“I thank God that the Rev. Fred Phelps doesn’t have a strong political base to follow him. If Rev. Phelps had a strong base, maybe Sen. Obama would hook up with him, as well.
"
*It should also be noted that Reverend Phelps (godhatesfags. com) is no Republican, but a Democrat! Since it is now slightly past the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's murder (remember how Phelps and his forces were picketing at the funeral), it is a very timely moment to bring this up.
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times.
These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15% of the vote in 1998. In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993 and 1997.
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm". Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments. According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas.
2.) Barack Obama has refused to grant interviews to the gay media.
After courting anti-gay votes through affiliations with anti-gay preachers, and advocating segregation for gay Americans, Obama has refused to speak with the Philadelphia Gay News, one of the largest and most established LGBT papers in the country.
Unfortunately for Obama, the gay press has been operating increasingly independently of the Democratic Party as of late (FINALLY THANK GOD). They struck back and called Obama out on the carpet -- embarrassingly so.
Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, said, "Senator Obama's lack of dialogue with the local gay press is disappointing. The local gay press often is to the LGBT community what churches are to the black community.
"
3.) Barack Obama refused to be photographed with San Francisco's gay-friendly mayor, Gavin Newsom.
"I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama's) request at the Waterfront restaurant," said former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. "And he said to me, he would really appreciate it if he didn't get his photo taken with my mayor. He said he would really not like to have his picture taken with Gavin.
"
Insiders at City Hall, both current and former members of Newsom's staff, recall the incident well. And you can bet that Newsom hasn't forgotten it either. "He was pissed," said one former staffer.
In fact, early last year, Newsom alluded to the incident in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking to Reuters on Jan. 26, 2007, Newsom was asked about three potential Democratic candidates: Obama, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
"Barack Hussein Obama will not be photographed with me, will not be in the same room with me," Newsom told Reuters, "even though I've done fundraisers for that person - not once, but twice - because of this issue.
"
Obama was reluctant to be seen appearing in San Francisco altogether, much less side by side with the pro-gay mayor. "I would guess that is part of the rejection of the Obama campaign.
"
*On the other hand, being born and raised in John McCain's home state of Arizona, I recall that McCain's attitude toward a gay mayor was quite different. In the late 1990's, then Tempe, AZ mayor Neil Giuliano came out as a gay man. When the religious right started to attack, McCain was the first one to tell them to "back off" and that it did not make a bit of difference.
ELECTION 2008: It's your choice, but I hope you understand that with the right to vote also comes the responsibility to make the best decisions for this great country we live in.
Let's get real: Do we really want someone like Barack Obama as our next president? Just remember that if he wins this election, we're stuck with him the next four years whether we like it or not!
As a gay man, I have been shocked and downright ashamed of the way so many gay men blindly think that just because they are gay, they MUST vote for a liberal Democrat like Barack Obama. What is even more pathetic is the fact that so many of my fellow gay men do not realize that God gave them a brain so they can think intelligently FOR THEMSELVES about issues completely irrelvant to the gay agenda, such as: abortion, affirmative action, economy, edcuation, environment, national security, offshore drilling, the war in Iraq, etc., etc.
However, even if "gay issues" are all that you care about in this election, let's examine Barack Obama's record in that arena to "clear the air" once and for all (feel free to "fact check" all you want as everything I am about to say can be confirmed 100%):
1.) Despite protests from the gay community, Barack Obama has continued to stand behind an anti-gay minister, the Rev. Donnie McClurkin.
In fact, Rick Garcia, a long time gay rights activist who founded Equality Illinois, went as far to say the following:
“I thank God that the Rev. Fred Phelps doesn’t have a strong political base to follow him. If Rev. Phelps had a strong base, maybe Sen. Obama would hook up with him, as well.
"
*It should also be noted that Reverend Phelps (godhatesfags. com) is no Republican, but a Democrat! Since it is now slightly past the 10th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's murder (remember how Phelps and his forces were picketing at the funeral), it is a very timely moment to bring this up.
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times.
These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15% of the vote in 1998. In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993 and 1997.
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm". Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments. According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas.
2.) Barack Obama has refused to grant interviews to the gay media.
After courting anti-gay votes through affiliations with anti-gay preachers, and advocating segregation for gay Americans, Obama has refused to speak with the Philadelphia Gay News, one of the largest and most established LGBT papers in the country.
Unfortunately for Obama, the gay press has been operating increasingly independently of the Democratic Party as of late (FINALLY THANK GOD). They struck back and called Obama out on the carpet -- embarrassingly so.
Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, said, "Senator Obama's lack of dialogue with the local gay press is disappointing. The local gay press often is to the LGBT community what churches are to the black community.
"
3.) Barack Obama refused to be photographed with San Francisco's gay-friendly mayor, Gavin Newsom.
"I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama's) request at the Waterfront restaurant," said former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. "And he said to me, he would really appreciate it if he didn't get his photo taken with my mayor. He said he would really not like to have his picture taken with Gavin.
"
Insiders at City Hall, both current and former members of Newsom's staff, recall the incident well. And you can bet that Newsom hasn't forgotten it either. "He was pissed," said one former staffer.
In fact, early last year, Newsom alluded to the incident in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking to Reuters on Jan. 26, 2007, Newsom was asked about three potential Democratic candidates: Obama, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
"Barack Hussein Obama will not be photographed with me, will not be in the same room with me," Newsom told Reuters, "even though I've done fundraisers for that person - not once, but twice - because of this issue.
"
Obama was reluctant to be seen appearing in San Francisco altogether, much less side by side with the pro-gay mayor. "I would guess that is part of the rejection of the Obama campaign.
"
*On the other hand, being born and raised in John McCain's home state of Arizona, I recall that McCain's attitude toward a gay mayor was quite different. In the late 1990's, then Tempe, AZ mayor Neil Giuliano came out as a gay man. When the religious right started to attack, McCain was the first one to tell them to "back off" and that it did not make a bit of difference.
ELECTION 2008: It's your choice, but I hope you understand that with the right to vote also comes the responsibility to make the best decisions for this great country we live in.
Let's get real: Do we really want someone like Barack Obama as our next president? Just remember that if he wins this election, we're stuck with him the next four years whether we like it or not!
Gay and Voting For Obama? Read This First!
Gay And For Obama? Heres Some Facts For You!
1.) Obama stands by ‘ex-gay’ minister despite protests
The move angered some gays who have supported Obama’s campaign, including Rick Garcia, a longtime gay rights activist who helped start Equality Illinois.
McClurkin remains part of campaign event over HRC and donor objections Sen. Barack Obama angered some of his gay supporters when his presidential campaign refused to drop an anti-gay minister from a fundraising tour, despite protests from the Human Rights Campaign.
Senior members of Obama’s campaign talked with a handful of the Illinois senator’s prominent gay donors, according to sources who spoke to the Blade on condition of anonymity. But that meeting — and HRC’s protest — failed to persuade Obama to drop Rev. Donnie McClurkin from the gospel event in South Carolina.
“I thank God that the Rev. Fred Phelps doesn’t have a strong political base to follow him,” Garcia said. “If Rev. Phelps had a strong base, maybe Sen. Obama would hook up with him, as well.
”
2.) Did You Know Reverend Phelps (God Hates Fags) Is Part Of The Democratic Party?
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times.
These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15% of the vote in 1998. In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993 and 1997.
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm". Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments. According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps' son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser, which Al and Tipper Gore attended, at his home in Topeka. Fred Phelps, Jr. served as a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
3.) Obama Refuses To Talk With Gay Media
The Philadelphia Gay News is hammering Barack Obama for what they say is his consistent refusal to speak to gay media outlets.
In its latest issue, the paper features a front-page interview with Hillary Clinton and a large blank space under a photo of Barack Obama, with a banner headline reading, "Clinton Talks, Obama Balks.
"
Once again, Democrat Barack Obama has shown his contempt for gay Americans. After courting anti-gay votes through affiliations with anti-gay preachers, and advocating segregation for gay Americans, Obama has refused to speak with the Philadelphia Gay News, one of the largest and most established LGBT papers in the country.
Unfortunately for Obama, the gay press has been operating increasingly independently of the Democratic Party as of late. They struck back and called Obama out on the carpet -- embarrassingly so.
Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, said, "Senator Obama's lack of dialogue with the local gay press is disappointing. The local gay press often is to the LGBT community what churches are to the black community."
Despite concerted efforts, Senator Barack Obama has not granted a formal interview to the Philadelphia Gay News. PGN, now in its 32nd year and the nation's most-honored LGBT newspaper, is taking the unusual step of displaying Obama's lack of communication to the local LGBT press, leaving blank space on the newspaper's front page where Obama's interview would have appeared, illustrating his lack of accessibility to the local gay press. Obama has not granted a formal interview to any local gay press in 1,522 days, when he spoke to the Windy City Times during his Senate race in 2004.
4.) Obama Refused To Be Photographed With Pro-Gay Mayor
Just four years ago, current Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama declined to have his picture taken in San Francisco with Newsom, who was then at the center of a national uproar over his decision to allow same-sex marriage in San Francisco.
"I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama's) request at the Waterfront restaurant," said former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. "And he said to me, he would really appreciate it if he didn't get his photo taken with my mayor. He said he would really not like to have his picture taken with Gavin."
Today, of course, Obama's people are backpedaling away from that account like crazy. "Barack Obama gets his picture taken with gay people all the time," Hildebrand said. "Including me, his deputy campaign manager."
But insiders at City Hall, both current and former members of Newsom's staff, recall the incident well. And you can bet that Newsom hasn't forgotten it either. "He was pissed," said one former staffer.
In fact, early last year, Newsom alluded to the incident in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking to Reuters on Jan. 26, 2007, Newsom was asked about three potential Democratic candidates: Obama, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
Barack Hussein Obama will not be photographed with me, will not be in the same room with me," Newsom told Reuters, "even though I've done fundraisers for that person - not once, but twice - because of this issue."
Obama was reluctant to be seen appearing in San Francisco altogether, much less side by side with the gay-marriage mayor. "I would guess that is part of the rejection of the Obama campaign."
Though same-sex marriage is still a hot-button issue in 2008, it is no longer the shocker that had the country in an uproar four and five years ago. Until you go back and look at the news stories from those days, it is easy to forget how radical and unpopular Newsom's stand was.
On a side note Obama is no more for gay marriage then McCain is. They both share equal stances.
1.) Obama stands by ‘ex-gay’ minister despite protests
The move angered some gays who have supported Obama’s campaign, including Rick Garcia, a longtime gay rights activist who helped start Equality Illinois.
McClurkin remains part of campaign event over HRC and donor objections Sen. Barack Obama angered some of his gay supporters when his presidential campaign refused to drop an anti-gay minister from a fundraising tour, despite protests from the Human Rights Campaign.
Senior members of Obama’s campaign talked with a handful of the Illinois senator’s prominent gay donors, according to sources who spoke to the Blade on condition of anonymity. But that meeting — and HRC’s protest — failed to persuade Obama to drop Rev. Donnie McClurkin from the gospel event in South Carolina.
“I thank God that the Rev. Fred Phelps doesn’t have a strong political base to follow him,” Garcia said. “If Rev. Phelps had a strong base, maybe Sen. Obama would hook up with him, as well.
”
2.) Did You Know Reverend Phelps (God Hates Fags) Is Part Of The Democratic Party?
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times.
These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15% of the vote in 1998. In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993 and 1997.
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm". Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments. According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps' son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser, which Al and Tipper Gore attended, at his home in Topeka. Fred Phelps, Jr. served as a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
3.) Obama Refuses To Talk With Gay Media
The Philadelphia Gay News is hammering Barack Obama for what they say is his consistent refusal to speak to gay media outlets.
In its latest issue, the paper features a front-page interview with Hillary Clinton and a large blank space under a photo of Barack Obama, with a banner headline reading, "Clinton Talks, Obama Balks.
"
Once again, Democrat Barack Obama has shown his contempt for gay Americans. After courting anti-gay votes through affiliations with anti-gay preachers, and advocating segregation for gay Americans, Obama has refused to speak with the Philadelphia Gay News, one of the largest and most established LGBT papers in the country.
Unfortunately for Obama, the gay press has been operating increasingly independently of the Democratic Party as of late. They struck back and called Obama out on the carpet -- embarrassingly so.
Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, said, "Senator Obama's lack of dialogue with the local gay press is disappointing. The local gay press often is to the LGBT community what churches are to the black community."
Despite concerted efforts, Senator Barack Obama has not granted a formal interview to the Philadelphia Gay News. PGN, now in its 32nd year and the nation's most-honored LGBT newspaper, is taking the unusual step of displaying Obama's lack of communication to the local LGBT press, leaving blank space on the newspaper's front page where Obama's interview would have appeared, illustrating his lack of accessibility to the local gay press. Obama has not granted a formal interview to any local gay press in 1,522 days, when he spoke to the Windy City Times during his Senate race in 2004.
4.) Obama Refused To Be Photographed With Pro-Gay Mayor
Just four years ago, current Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama declined to have his picture taken in San Francisco with Newsom, who was then at the center of a national uproar over his decision to allow same-sex marriage in San Francisco.
"I gave a fundraiser, at his (Obama's) request at the Waterfront restaurant," said former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown. "And he said to me, he would really appreciate it if he didn't get his photo taken with my mayor. He said he would really not like to have his picture taken with Gavin."
Today, of course, Obama's people are backpedaling away from that account like crazy. "Barack Obama gets his picture taken with gay people all the time," Hildebrand said. "Including me, his deputy campaign manager."
But insiders at City Hall, both current and former members of Newsom's staff, recall the incident well. And you can bet that Newsom hasn't forgotten it either. "He was pissed," said one former staffer.
In fact, early last year, Newsom alluded to the incident in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Speaking to Reuters on Jan. 26, 2007, Newsom was asked about three potential Democratic candidates: Obama, Hillary Clinton and Al Gore.
Barack Hussein Obama will not be photographed with me, will not be in the same room with me," Newsom told Reuters, "even though I've done fundraisers for that person - not once, but twice - because of this issue."
Obama was reluctant to be seen appearing in San Francisco altogether, much less side by side with the gay-marriage mayor. "I would guess that is part of the rejection of the Obama campaign."
Though same-sex marriage is still a hot-button issue in 2008, it is no longer the shocker that had the country in an uproar four and five years ago. Until you go back and look at the news stories from those days, it is easy to forget how radical and unpopular Newsom's stand was.
On a side note Obama is no more for gay marriage then McCain is. They both share equal stances.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Obama and Odinga: VERY VERY Disturbing
About 50 parishioners were locked into the Assemblies of God church before it was set ablaze. They were mostly women and children. Those who tried to flee were hacked to death by machete-wielding members of a mob numbering 2,000.
The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist. He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.
Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle.
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President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.
Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
The 2008 New Year Day atrocity in the Kenyan village Eldoret, about 185 miles northwest of Nairobi, had all the markings of the Rwanda genocide of a decade earlier.
By mid-February 2008, more than 1,500 Kenyans were killed. Many were slain by machete-armed attackers. More than 500,000 were displaced by the religious strife. Villages lay in ruin. Many of the atrocities were perpetrated by Muslims against Christians.
The violence was led by supporters of Raila Odinga, the opposition leader who lost the Dec. 27, 2007, presidential election by more than 230,000 votes. Odinga supporters began the genocide hours after the final election results were announced Dec. 30. Mr. Odinga was a member of Parliament representing an area in western Kenya, heavily populated by the Luo tribe, and the birthplace of Barack Obama's father.
Mr. Odinga had the backing of Kenya's Muslim community heading into the election. For months he denied any ties to Muslim leaders, but fell silent when Sheik Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum, appeared on Kenya television displaying a memorandum of understanding signed on Aug. 29, 2007, by Mr. Odinga and the Muslim leader. Mr. Odinga then denied his denials.
The details of the MOU were shocking. In return for Muslim backing, Mr. Odinga promised to impose a number of measures favored by Muslims if he were elected president. Among these were recognition of "Islam as the only true religion," Islamic leaders would have an "oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions [emphasis in original]," installation of Shariah courts in every jurisdiction, a ban on Christian preaching, replacement of the police commissioner who "allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists," adoption of a women's dress code, and bans on alcohol and pork.
This was not Mr. Odinga's first brush with notoriety. Like his father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the main opposition leader in the 1960s and 1970s, Raila Odinga is a Marxist. He graduated from East Germany's Magdeburg University in 1970 on a scholarship provided by the East German government. He named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.
Raila Odinga was implicated in the bloody coup attempt in 1982 against then-President Daniel Arap Moi, a close ally of the United States. Kenya has been one of the most stable democracies in Africa since the 1960s. The ethnic cleansing earlier this year was the worst violence in Kenya since that 1982 coup attempt.
Mr. Odinga spent eight years in prison. At the time, he denied guilt but later detailed he was a coup leader in his 2006 biography. Statue of limitations precluded further prosecution when the biography appeared.
Initially, Mr. Odinga was not the favored opposition candidate to stand in the 2007 election against President Mwai Kibaki, who was seeking his second term. However, he received a tremendous boost when Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Kenya in August 2006 to campaign on his behalf. Mr. Obama denies that supporting Mr. Odinga was the intention of his trip, but his actions and local media reports tell otherwise.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama were nearly inseparable throughout Mr. Obama's six-day stay. The two traveled together throughout Kenya and Mr. Obama spoke on behalf of Mr. Odinga at numerous rallies. In contrast, Mr. Obama had only criticism for Kibaki. He lashed out against the Kenyan government shortly after meeting with the president on Aug. 25. "The [Kenyan] people have to suffer over corruption perpetrated by government officials," Mr. Obama announced.
"Kenyans are now yearning for change," he declared. The intent of Mr. Obama's remarks and actions was transparent to Kenyans - he was firmly behind Mr. Odinga.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama had met several times before the 2006 trip. Reports indicate Mr. Odinga visited Mr. Obama during trips to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Mr. Obama sent his foreign policy adviser Mark Lippert to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate his summer visit. Mr. Obama's August trip coincided with strategizing by Orange Democratic Movement leaders to defeat Mr. Kibaki in the upcoming elections. Mr. Odinga represented the ODM ticket in the presidential race.
Mr. Odinga and Mr. Obama's father were both from the Luo community, the second-largest tribe in Kenya, but their ties run much deeper. Mr. Odinga told a stunned BBC Radio interviewer the reason why he and Mr. Obama were staying in near daily telephone contact was because they were cousins. In a Jan. 8, 2008, interview, Mr. Odinga said Mr. Obama had called him twice the day before while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary before adding, "Barack Obama's father is my maternal uncle.
"
President Kibaki requested a meeting of all opposition leaders in early January in an effort to quell the violence. All agreed to attend except Mr. Odinga. A month later, Mr. Kibaki offered Mr. Odinga the role of prime minister, the de facto No. 2 in the Kenyan government, in return for an end to the attacks. Mr. Odinga was sworn in on April 17, 2008.
Mr. Obama's judgment is seriously called into question when he backs an official with troubling ties to Muslim extremists and whose supporters practice ethnic cleansing and genocide. It was Islamic extremists in Kenya who bombed the U.S. Embassy in 1998, killing more than 200 and injuring thousands. None of this has dissuaded Mr. Obama from maintaining disturbing loyalties.
The Economic Crisis: What Would Reagan Do?
I think the answer is clear from a 1985 speech that President Reagan gave from the Oval Office:
"In 1981, our critics charged that letting you keep more of your earnings would trigger an inflationary explosion, send interest rates soaring, and destroy our economy. Well, we cut your tax rates anyway, by nearly 25%. What what helped trigger was falling inflation, falling interest rates, and the strongest economic expansion in 30 years. Over the course of this century, our tax system has been modified dozens of times and in hundreds of ways. Yet, most of those changes didn't improve the system. They made it more like Washington itself- complicated, unfair, cluttered with "gobbeldy-gook" and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisors.
But there's more to it than that. Some years ago, a historian from the past said that every time a government began taxing at a certain level above the people's earnings, trust in government began to erode. He said it would begin with efforts to avoid paying the full tax. This would become outright cheating, and eventually a distrust and contempt of government itself, until there would be a breakdown in law and order.
How many times have we heard people brag about clever schemes to avoid paying taxes? Or watch luxuries casually written off to be paid for by somebody else? That somebody being you. I believe that in both spirit and substance, our tax system has come to be Un-American.
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"How would [my] proposal work? The present tax system has 14 different brackets of tax rates ranging from 11-50%. We would take a giant step towards an ideal system by replacing all that with a simple three bracket system, with tax rates of 15, 25, and 35 percent. By lowering everyone's tax rates ALL THE WAY UP THE INCOME SCALE, each of us will have a greater incentive to climb higher, to excel, to help America grow.
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"The power of these incentives would send one simple, straightforward message to an entire nation: America, go for it!"
*Recall that as a Senator, Barack Obama has voted against tax cuts over 90 times!!! Also recall that his running mate, Joe Biden, said that paying higher taxes is "patriotic." For Reagan's sake, I'm glad that he was no longer alive to hear such rhetoric.
It would have absolutely made his skin crawl!
"In 1981, our critics charged that letting you keep more of your earnings would trigger an inflationary explosion, send interest rates soaring, and destroy our economy. Well, we cut your tax rates anyway, by nearly 25%. What what helped trigger was falling inflation, falling interest rates, and the strongest economic expansion in 30 years. Over the course of this century, our tax system has been modified dozens of times and in hundreds of ways. Yet, most of those changes didn't improve the system. They made it more like Washington itself- complicated, unfair, cluttered with "gobbeldy-gook" and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisors.
But there's more to it than that. Some years ago, a historian from the past said that every time a government began taxing at a certain level above the people's earnings, trust in government began to erode. He said it would begin with efforts to avoid paying the full tax. This would become outright cheating, and eventually a distrust and contempt of government itself, until there would be a breakdown in law and order.
How many times have we heard people brag about clever schemes to avoid paying taxes? Or watch luxuries casually written off to be paid for by somebody else? That somebody being you. I believe that in both spirit and substance, our tax system has come to be Un-American.
"
"How would [my] proposal work? The present tax system has 14 different brackets of tax rates ranging from 11-50%. We would take a giant step towards an ideal system by replacing all that with a simple three bracket system, with tax rates of 15, 25, and 35 percent. By lowering everyone's tax rates ALL THE WAY UP THE INCOME SCALE, each of us will have a greater incentive to climb higher, to excel, to help America grow.
"
"The power of these incentives would send one simple, straightforward message to an entire nation: America, go for it!"
*Recall that as a Senator, Barack Obama has voted against tax cuts over 90 times!!! Also recall that his running mate, Joe Biden, said that paying higher taxes is "patriotic." For Reagan's sake, I'm glad that he was no longer alive to hear such rhetoric.
It would have absolutely made his skin crawl!
Fannie Mae and Barney Frank's "Boyfriend"
Obama's skeletons just keep falling out of the closet, along with his buddies!
Barney Frank Hit Over Boyfriend’s Fannie Mae Role
Body: Critics are crying “conflict of interest” over Democratic Rep. Barney Frank’s live-in relationship with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses while Frank was on the House Banking Committee.
Moses was Fannie Mae’s assistant director for product initiatives from 1991 to 1998.
He was also openly gay Frank’s live-in boyfriend during that time, while the Massachusetts lawmaker was on the committee that had jurisdiction over government-sponsored Fannie Mae, Fox News’ Bill Sammon reported.
Now that Fannie Mae is at the center of the recent financial meltdown, the relationship is coming under increased scrutiny.
“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute.
“He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive.
How is that not germane?
“But everyone wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.
A top Republican House aide told Fox News: “He writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever take note?”
Frank and Moses met in 1987 and lived together in Washington, D.C., until they split up in 1998.
National Mortgage News disclosed that Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.
Critics charge that such programs led to the mortgage meltdown and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae, according to Fox News, which noted that Fannie Mae and its financial cousin Freddie Mac “are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.
In 1994, Frank thwarted efforts by President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development to impose new regulations on Fannie Mae.
Barney Frank Hit Over Boyfriend’s Fannie Mae Role
Body: Critics are crying “conflict of interest” over Democratic Rep. Barney Frank’s live-in relationship with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses while Frank was on the House Banking Committee.
Moses was Fannie Mae’s assistant director for product initiatives from 1991 to 1998.
He was also openly gay Frank’s live-in boyfriend during that time, while the Massachusetts lawmaker was on the committee that had jurisdiction over government-sponsored Fannie Mae, Fox News’ Bill Sammon reported.
Now that Fannie Mae is at the center of the recent financial meltdown, the relationship is coming under increased scrutiny.
“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute.
“He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive.
How is that not germane?
“But everyone wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.
A top Republican House aide told Fox News: “He writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever take note?”
Frank and Moses met in 1987 and lived together in Washington, D.C., until they split up in 1998.
National Mortgage News disclosed that Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.
Critics charge that such programs led to the mortgage meltdown and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae, according to Fox News, which noted that Fannie Mae and its financial cousin Freddie Mac “are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.
In 1994, Frank thwarted efforts by President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development to impose new regulations on Fannie Mae.
Nothing Like Some Good Hate Mail!!!
This message was sent to my account earlier today on a gay chat site. The funniest thing is the claim that I'm the "hot tempered and angry" one.
daddabear: What a jerk! You are neither smart or successful until you can love your fellow human being... and its obvious you dont. you have a lot of hate and bitterness that you need to deal with man... just like your man mcInsane there.... hot tempered and angry!
You have what YOU want but you dont want anyone else to have what THEY want. Typical oximoran gay repugnant! YOURE AN ASSHOLE!!! You are a disgrace to ANYone gay or lesbian. Go find a woman and be done with it asswhipe!!!
*And I can tell that "daddabear" must be fully secure in his beliefs, since my attempt to respond to this tirade was unsuccessful since he BLOCKED me from mailing him back . . . oh well.
daddabear: What a jerk! You are neither smart or successful until you can love your fellow human being... and its obvious you dont. you have a lot of hate and bitterness that you need to deal with man... just like your man mcInsane there.... hot tempered and angry!
You have what YOU want but you dont want anyone else to have what THEY want. Typical oximoran gay repugnant! YOURE AN ASSHOLE!!! You are a disgrace to ANYone gay or lesbian. Go find a woman and be done with it asswhipe!!!
*And I can tell that "daddabear" must be fully secure in his beliefs, since my attempt to respond to this tirade was unsuccessful since he BLOCKED me from mailing him back . . . oh well.
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