By Michael Crawford
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My Michael Crawford
In yet another sign of the “enthusiasm gap” between supporters of Barack Obama and supporters of John McCain comes this clever and funny take on Les Miserables.
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By Michael Crawford
There may have been a time when John McCain could have been considered a “maverick,” but that time has clearly come and gone. McCain has hired Karl Rove’s henchmen to run what even the traditional media is calling one of the nastiest campaigns in recent memory.
By Waymon Hudson
Cross-posted at Bilerico – Florida
More information is coming out about Palin and her quest to ban books from the Wasilla Library during her time as Mayor. A New York Times article details disturbing information about Palin’s push for censorship of books she considered “immoral”. Care to guess the focus of her ire?
Daddy’s Roommate, a book that helps kids understand same-sex families.
Laura Chase, the campaign manager during Palin’s first run for mayor in 1996, as well as Palin’s mayoral predecessor John Stein, both confirmed that she pushed to have the book removed from the library because it “didn’t belong there.” Ms. Chase read the book, found it inoffensive, and suggested Palin read it. Palin’s response was that she “didn’t need to read that stuff.”
By Michael Crawford
Okay, this clip from last night’s Saturday Night Live is just for fun. But the barbs that fly between Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton are the kind of sharp commentary lacking from much of the traditional media’s reporting on this election cycle.
By Michael Crawford
You may have heard the reports that as mayor of Wasilla Sarah Palin considered banning books from the local library. Now the traditional media is finally picking up on the story. Among the book she may have looked into banning was Pastor, I am Gay by former PFLAG regional director Reverend Howard Bess.
Palin, now the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, was elected mayor of Wasilla in 1996 with strong support from the Wasilla Assembly of God. The Assembly of God is well known for preaching anti-gay rhetoric from the pulpit.
Good Morning America aired this investigative report into the controversy:
By Jeremy Hooper
Cross-posted at Good As You
Here is a new McCain-Palin ad in which Barack Obama’s usage of the old “lipstick on a pig” cliché is being unfairly decontextualized so that it’s made to sound like a pointed reference to Palin:
But beyond the “lipstick” comment itself, there are several other points of opportunistic impropriety here. Like, for instance — what campaign was Katie Couric actually talking about when referencing sexism? Was “that campaign” referring to Obama’s, as Team McCain implies, or was it referring to…
Michelle Obama one ups Barack in the dancing category on Ellen Degeneres’ talk. Check it out.
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By Michael Crawford
Despite the spin being put on John McCain’s anti-gay record by Log Cabin Republicans, there is ample evidence that McCain is no “maverick” on LGBT equality. As an example check out this ad from 2006 promoting an anti-gay constitutional amendment in in Arizona:
By Michael Crawford
You don’t have to be all that smart to get how dumb it is that more than 50 military-trained Arabic linguists have been fired for being gay when we are fighting two wars in countries were the predominant language is Arabic. In all, some 12,000 soldiers have been kicked out of the military for being gay or just being rumored to be gay. That’s one of the reasons I don’t understand Republican presidential candidate John McCain statement on repealing the current ban on openly gay and lesbian soldiers:
“So I think it would be a terrific mistake to even reopen the issue. It is working my friends. The policy is working.”
I mean seriously. 9/11 happened in part because our intelligence agencies did not have enough trained Arabic linguists to translate the backlog of intercepted messages and McCain supports the firing of dozens of Arabic specialists because they may be a little too attached to their collection of Madonna memorabilia?
More than 25 of our allied countries including our international BFF Great Britain allow gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly and proudly while McCain wants the military to continue engaging in witchhunts, electronic snooping and gossip-mongering.
We can do better than that.