To those of you who have sent in comments saying that I am such a blind follower of President Obama, accusing me of being a sheep who follows; here is the proof that I am not: I am going to offer a criticism or two when it is well deserved.
My reasons for doing this is that so far I have not found anything so terribly wrong that he has done.
True, he has dragged his feet in repealing DADT and therefore disappointed a lot of GLBT people. But he has indicated that he intends to do something about it, when? That is still an enigma, but his heart is in the right place.
Up until now, with some minor reservations on my part, President Obama has been on the same page as I have. I do think that he is a bit naïve in thinking that he is going to get Republicans to agree on any, I mean anything he proposes in the form of legislation. Bipartisanship is not an option and the sooner President Obama declares war on Republicans, and yes, it will be divisive, but it will allow Democrats to pass some meaningful legislation. Republicans are still going to be combative and they are still going to call him a socialist, so why not get things done and forget them. They want him to fail after all.
I think he has to come through and say it: No law will be signed by this President unless it includes a Public Option; which is what 77% of Americans want.
But yesterday, he made one of the biggest blunders in New Orleans. He was asked the question about why they still have not received full governmental assistance in regards to a hospital and his answer was disingenuous. He said that he just couldn’t write a check because the Constitution, etc. prevented him from doing so...really? Yet they have written billions of dollars to banks and insurance companies and to car dealers without even any conditions.
I find it hard to believe that if our Government can dish out billions of dollars to banks and Insurance companies so that their executives can get their bonuses and be able to afford their houses in the Hamptons, surely they can muster up a few millions and spend them in New Orleans. There is no doubt in my mind that if hurricane Katrina had made landfall in the Hamptons instead of New Orleans, the Hamptons would have been so rebuilt that by now you would not even be able to tell it had been hit by a hurricane a few short years ago.
The President can and should help the people of New Orleans; all efforts should be intensified to rectify the great blunder that was President’s Bush when Katrina hit the city. Write the fucking check and then some, this is my advice to the President.
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Republicans want Obama to fail…not surprising
Remember how vigorous the Republicans went after President Clinton? I can still see the image in my mind of Ken Star and his statements to the press. He was a perfect example of partisan witch-hunting. I can’t help but to think that the asshole is just a closeted homosexual who wished he was Monica.
From "The American Prospect":
“...it's worth remembering just how virulent the opposition to Clinton's presidency was. Republicans began plotting to impeach Clinton long before anyone had ever heard the name "Lewinsky," and many on the right simply refused to accept that he legitimately occupied the office he held. Then-House Majority Leader Dick Armey, when talking to Democrats, used to refer to Clinton as "your president."
It was a warped, hysterical campaign funded by wealthy Right Wing thugs like Richard Mellon Scaifeand propagated by wealthy Right Wing thugs like Rupert Murdoch who made sure the lies were jack-hammered into the headlines day after day, year after year.
And judging by its objectives, it was also a very successful campaign: it legitimized and metastasized Hate Radio; killed the credibility of the "objective" media once and for all; made the overt mass-slander of political opposition by the Right acceptable; moved radicals, militia nuts, bigots, Creationists and Limbaugh zombies to the center of the Republican Party; accelerated the exodus of reasonable moderates the hell out of the Republican Party; destroyed the possibility of public discourse; and kicked the door open to the use of Congressional hearings as instruments of political vendetta.
But as successful as it was, it was also an incredibly high-risk strategy, because of a thing called the "public record".
The public record meant that each and every time a Republican stood up to, say, slam the Democrat Commander-in-Chief during a time of war (from The Poor Man Institute:)
“You can support the troops but not the president”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
“President…is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation’s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.”
-Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA)
“American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
“If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.”
-Karen Hughes, speaking on behalf of George W. Bush
“I had doubts about the bombing campaign from the beginning…I didn’t think we had done enough in the diplomatic area.”
-Senator Trent Lott (R-MS)
“Well, I just think it’s a bad idea. What’s going to happen is they’re going to be over there for 10, 15, maybe 20 years”
-Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
“I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our overextended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
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“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?”
-Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99
“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”
-Governor George W. Bush (R-TX)
“This is President Clinton’s war, and when he falls flat on his face, that’s his problem.”
-Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN)
“Bombing a sovereign nation for ill-defined reasons with vague objectives undermines the American stature in the world. The international respect and trust for America has diminished every time we casually let the bombs fly.”
-Representative Tom Delay (R-TX)
they left a documentary trail wide and bright enough to be visible from space.
Or from the next election cycle.
The public record meant that every frivolous Republican witch hunt and every syllable of hate and demagoguery gleefully poured out through public megaphones and mega-church pulpits to malign and demonize the Left could potentially represent a thick bar on the cage of any future Republican president's imperial ambitions.
Because, after all, should the tables ever turn -- should there ever be a Republican President whose election really was suspect, or who really did lie to the American public and flagrantly abuse his office, and did it in ways that cost the nation trillions of dollars and thousands of lives -- after spending eight years establishing a public record in such clear and unambiguous language what the Hell could the Right possibly say?
After conspiring to bring about two of the most destructive events in modern American history -- the impeachment of a US President over trivia, and the probable theft of the subsequent Presidential election -- to what God could Republicans possibly pray that their eight years of insanity, venom and violence "might be wholly blotted out?”
On 09/11/01, their dark miracle came winging its way out of a clear, blue sky.
Eight years ago, this is what we all saw.
All of us, all together across all political, cultural and religious spectra watched the worst thing many of us had ever seen.
Together.
But in what now seems like less time than it took to wipe away our tears, the same depraved thugs who sponsored eight years of "Clinton Murdered Vince Foster!" hysteria began hijacking of our pain and patriotism to serve their partisan interests right before our eyes.
The minute the Bush Administration began trying to stretch the war they got into an excuse for the war they wanted, 9/11 stopped being merely a national tragedy and started being the Bush Administration's bottomless political ATM machine.
The minute the Party of Personal Responsibility began using the mantra "9/11 changed everything" as the political equivalent of the Blood of Christ -- as a means to absolve themselves of their personal responsibility for eight years of malice and derangement -- for them September 11, 2001 stopped being a moment of shared, national anguish and started being a suit of cultural 
body-armor which magically deflected any criticism of their lies and their and hypocrisy.
It was an impervious sniper's nest from which they could cynically escalate their war on the Left. Or don't you remember the day the Right robbed the graves of all those who perished on 9/11 to turn this into their all-purpose, blanket rationalization for all their excesses?”
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Relax you homophobic Evangelicals, you will still be able to be homophobic
If we ever get any legislation protecting the rights of LGBT Americans and even a Federal Law that allows for same sex couples to marry, serve in the military and receive all the benefits and have all the rights heterosexuals have in our society, there still will be room for a difference of opinion, there still will be people who embrace homophobia and that is ok. What they will not be able to do is use the law to discriminate against anyone.
Just as the passage of the Civil Rights in the sixties recognized that the Federal Government had to extend the same rights to blacks as those of whites, there continued to be racism in this country. Even fifty years later we have with us a lot of racism as was reported today in CNN when a white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, said it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long. The couple involved is planning on bringing legal action against him.
The up side to all this that they can no longer discriminate against black people legally. This is the parallel I see between the Civil Rights Movement and the LGBT effort to end discrimination. 
We will still have the fucking Evangelicals spewing their hatred; we will continue to see Mormons admonishing and saying that homosexuality is an abomination and some acquired predilection, not one you are born with. That is fine with me because if they tell me I am an abomination and will not gain access into heaven, I will be more than relieved. You see, if they are going to heaven, I don’t want to be there with them.
Much to their chagrin, I tell them that “you can’t humiliate anyone without t
heir consent”, something that Eleanor Roosevelt so eloquently said. They can tell me all this bullshit until they are blue in the face, after all, it is all based on an erroneous interpretation of the Scriptures; I will still think that they are not better than I am nor that if there is a God that he or she will look upon them more favorably than he/she looks at me just because they insert their penises into vaginas. FUCK YOU EVANGELICALS AND MORMONS
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