Obama Appoints Openly-Gay Hochberg To Run Export-Import Bank

[pab]

Obama Appoints Openly-Gay Hochberg To Run Export-Import Bank#1

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:11pm

"Human Rights Campaign sends over a statement from its president, Joe Solmonese:

The chair of the Export-Import Bank of the United States is an important position in President-elect Obama's economic team. Fred is one of the most highly qualified and experienced public servants in our community and the fact that President-elect Obama has tapped him for such an important economic position speaks well for the LGBT community."
Hochberg to head Ex-Im

"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"

[JustAGuy]

re: Obama Appoints Openly-Gay Hochberg To Run Export-Import Bank#2

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:21pm

"Fred is one of the most highly qualified and experienced public servants in our community and the fact that President-elect Obama has tapped him for such an important economic position speaks well for the LGBT community."

Why does this speak well for the LGBT community?

To me, it speaks well for Hochber, who happens to be a member of the LGBT community. The idea that a person speaks well for a community is silly to me.

"Just a Guy. Your feelings are touching. I am gladdened by the thought that you will one day wind up 6 feet under as we all do." - MrRoxy ------ "I do not suggest you walk out the door onto a New York street with your vulnerable child part exposed and not protected..." - Jason Bennett

Updated On: 1/9/09 at 02:21 PM

[papalovesmambo]

pebho tosses off gays with import export head#2

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:26pm

i have always spoken well of the lgbt community.

r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

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pray to st. jude

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he was the gimmicky sort

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[JustAGuy]

pebho tosses off gays with import export head#3

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:29pm

Yes...yes you have Papa, and I think Joe Solmonese should acknowledge that.

"Just a Guy. Your feelings are touching. I am gladdened by the thought that you will one day wind up 6 feet under as we all do." - MrRoxy ------ "I do not suggest you walk out the door onto a New York street with your vulnerable child part exposed and not protected..." - Jason Bennett

[Mother's Younger Brother]

pebho tosses off gays with import export head#4

Posted: 1/9/09 at 2:31pm

Good. Maybe Mr. Hochberg can help me import my German partner.

[PalJoey]

pebho tosses off gays with import export head#5

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:04pm

I would have preferred Fred for Secretary of Commerce. It would have "spoken well for the gay community" to have had a cabinet-level appointment.

[papalovesmambo]

pebho tosses off gays with import export head#6

Posted: 1/9/09 at 3:27pm

pj, you just take that attitude to the back of the administration, mister! pebho has already done and will continue to do more for the glbt community than anyone else in the history of recorded time. say it. say it!!!!

r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

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