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President Obama Gives Marriage Equality a Leg Up: He Voices His Support for SSM
Same-sex couples should be able to get married. – President Obama I awoke this morning* to the momentous news that President Barack Obama had come out in support of SSM. Let me tell you, after the bruising defeat of Amendment One passing last night in NC and the aftermath, I…
Chris Matthews compares LGBT Republicans to indentured servants
MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Wednesday praised President Barack Obama for endorsing same sex marriage. “President Obama remains a maker of history,” he said. “He was the first African American to serve as our President and now he is the leader of another kind: the first President to state his…
Log Cabin Republicans: Obama manipulating LGBT families for political gain
The Log Cabin Republicans, a group dedicated to representing LGBT Republicans, on Wednesday derided President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same sex marriage. “That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous,” said…
Obama declares himself ‘evolved’ on marriage equality
In an interview with ABC News today, following a lot of back-and-forth about the nature of his position on marriage equality, President Obama announced that he had finally come to the conclusion that civil unions are not enough to guarantee that “gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and…
‘Forward’ — that frightening word
In the past, President Obama was criticized by Standard Political Pundits for supposedly failing to articulate his thinking on Health Reform, and other items on his agenda. They said he was overly complex; he was too remote; he didn’t offer cunning soundbites. Possibly this was the impetus for his committee’s…
NC’s latest Republican birther candidate says Arpaio is a ‘great American’
A Republican running for U.S. House in North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District is continuing to insist that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen because he has examined the birth certificate of one of his staffers who was born in Hawaii. Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday, Dr.…
Rights And Wrongs
I’ve talked about this before at ABLC and whenever I bring up the myth that African-Americans and Latinos are against gay marriage more than white voters are, it turns out that it just isn’t true. I explain why it’s garbage, I explain that the forces of inequality are trying to…
Dear Democrats, Progressives, Liberals & assorted American lefties – settle down.
I’ve been seeing a certain amount of glee across my side ofthe internet lately over the fact that Willard McMittington Romney is a terrible candidate. The Republican Party establishment doesn’t like him and never has — that’s been established time and again — and the Republican masses are avoiding him in droves. Whoot! They hate their candidate! Here’s the deal: We knew that.…
Economic trends strengthen Obama’s hand
WASHINGTON — There is no doubt Barack Obama is in a tough spot. With time slipping away before November’s elections, the economy seems to keep dealing him a sub-par hand. Unemployment, at 8.1 percent, is still high enough to induce mountain sickness, and the descent has been painfully slow. The…
Chuck Todd: ‘Gay money has replaced Wall Street money’ for Obama
NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama would announce his support for marriage equality before the November election because LGBT donors had become more important to his campaign than Wall Street donors. The MSNBC host said he believes that it’s no coincidence that…
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