Dan Savages's Response to Obama's Response

I always confuse the savages. i never remember where Mike or Dan in the evil one.

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He's so awful that even Rush Limbaugh sided with England.
epic lulz

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There are tons of quotes from his campaign that did indeed promise specific and unambiguous support for gay rights.

The only thing he made clear was that he was an advocate for GLBT rights (including marriage).

As I said on another thread I don't blame him for dropping the hot political potato that is GLBT rights. I do hold him accountable for blatantly lying about his intentions so thoroughly. It's not like he needed to presuade gays to vote for him. So, why all the deceptive rhetoric?

Did he just feel good saying those things? Knowing he had no intention of following through. He hasn't even *tried* to follow through.

Oh, except of course with that lame and empty pronouncement about June being gay pride month.
Hey Barak, it already was gay pride month. That gesture doesn't count.

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PalJoey was right.

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About Dan Savage?

Or about Obama?

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Well, thank you very much for saying so.

You may not not believe me, but I would have vastly preferred I be the one to say that to you.

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"You may not not believe me, but I would have vastly preferred I be the one to say that to you."

I do believe you.

You should know that this has been one of the biggest disappointments of my life. I'm not sure I'll ever fully recover from it. I truly believed in him. I talked him up to family, friends and co-workers, and supported him, for 4 years; but the stakes are too high and I have too much of a vested interest to stand by idly and continue to defend and support such a hypocrite and two-faced liar. He's just another slick talking politician making promises that he has no intention of keeping. Either that or he lacks the wisdom, vision, fortitude and know-how to affect the change that he promises, and that is long, long overdue. My feelings at this point are... If not now, when? If not him, who? And sadly, I don't have the answers.

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Updated On: 6/13/09 at 01:31 AM

Video rewind: Obama asking for our support on the campaign trail

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"You can't take God out of the mix."

One would think that someone who faced some bigotry and discrimination in his life would be more sensitive to the concerns of another long-opressed group. Guess not.

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'50 years ago how many gays and lesbians were involved in the civil rights movement to get equal rights for the black population. Now it is payback time and Obama, Jesse Jackson, and other a**holes use the excuse of the Bible or "let the states decide themselves".'

Your capsule history there seems to imply that the the "many gays and lesbians" who were involved in the civil rights movement were white. Some were. But Bayard Rustin, the architect of the March on Washington was gay and black. AND FROZEN OUT of the movement because the FBI had dug up evidence that he was homosexual and Martin Luther King couldn't risk being associated with that.

The thing is, people of all hues and sexual orientations worked on civil rights in the early '60s because it was the right thing to do. No one is ever going to do something because "it's payback time," whatever the frig that means.

People need to move on this because it's the right thing to do. As Pal Joey keeps pointing out, things are changing, but Obama doesn't want to be part of it.

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I recently trimmed my facial hair, talking the talk is all I have left.

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