Elizabeth Birch, longtime LGBT activists and former Executive Director of the Human Rights Campaign talks about the stark differences between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain on LGBT issues.
By Bil Browning
Cross-posted at Bilerico
I don’t know why I’m continuously amazed at the sheer chutzpah of the Republican ticket. While the dastardly duo has clearly sunk to the lowest possible depths in an attempt to keep control of the country, the lengths they are willing to go still shocks me.
This latest news that Sarah Palin is refusing to cooperate with the bipartisan investigation into her alleged improper use of the Governor’s office to demand her ex-brother-in-law’s termination from the state troopers. When her public safety commissioner refused to fire the trooper, she canned him instead.
She’s claiming that the investigation has been “tainted and run by partisan individuals” because state senator Hollis French, the Democratic lawmaker managing the investigation is an Obama supporter. Keep in mind that the legislature deliberately made the investigation non-partisan, Palin supported the investigation originally (while suddenly finding evidence that her office just might have tried to influence the termination), and the person investigating her is an independent counsel.
By Waymon Hudson
Cross-posted at The Bilerico Project
Remember when the campaign said it was taking a “hands off approach” to writing of the GOP platform? Turns out they weren’t telling the truth. Again.
The Minnesota Independent is reporting that the McCain camp directly tapped right-wing fundie Gary Bauer, the president of American Values (a non-profit organization committed to “defending life, traditional marriage, and equipping children with conservative values”) to consult on the campaign’s behalf on what many are touting as “the most socially conservative platform in the party’s history.” Bauer appeared on the Focus on the Family radio show and explained his involvement, saying:
I was immediately amazed, surprised and happy to hear them say, “Look, we think it’s a great platform already, it’s pro-life, but we know people might want to strengthen it and we’re open to that.”
By Waymon Hudson
Cross-posted on The Bilerico Project
When the Prince of Darkness Karl Rove says you are going too far in your campaign and being dishonest, you know you have a problem.
In an interview with Fox News Sunday, Rove slams the McCain Campaign:
McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the ‘100 percent truth’ test. …They ought to — there ought to be an adult who says, ‘Do we really need to go that far in this ad’?
I never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I agree with Karl Rove. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little…
More – including the new hard-hitting Obama ad – after the jump.
By Michael Crawford
Voter registration deadlines across the country are coming upon us quickly. I don’t want you to miss out on the electoral fun of saying buh-bye to George Bush and Dick Cheney so I am posting registration deadline information for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The fight between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain is a fight for the future direction of our country and we can’t have any sitting on the sidelines.
Visit Vote for Change to register to vote, request to vote absentee, or find your polling location.
Registration deadlines are after the jump.
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 Michael Crawford
With little more than 50 days to go before election, we are coming down to the wire in being able to reach out to friends and families about why this election is so crucial to the LGBT community. The information that gets shared here on LGBT for Obama is a great resource to help explain why a vote for John McCain is a vote against LGBT people and our families.
So spread the word about why an Obama victory matters and get involved.
Tuesday
America: Yours, Mine, and Ours – Pt. 1 – Terrence Heath
LGBT Political Roundtable – The Republican Convention – Michael Crawford
Wednesday
The Chickens are Voting For Colonel Sanders – Joan Garry
Thursday
Obama Pledges ‘Equality for All’ - Michael Crawford
McCain: Impropriety and Double Standards We Can’t Believe In – Jeremy Hooper
LGBT Groups Step Up Campaign Efforts – Michael Crawford
Saturday
Did Sarah Palin Seek to Ban Gay Book? – Michael Crawford
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…
By Joan Garry
Cross-posted at Huffington Post
I thought the Log Cabin Republicans would withhold their endorsement of John McCain. Maybe I just hoped they would. After all, they withheld their endorsement of President Bush in 2004. So I thought it was possible.
In making its endorsement today, the group pointed to the Arizona senator’s opposition to a federal constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as being a man and a woman. The group also indicated that it had honest disagreements with Senator McCain on the subject of same sex marriage. The Log Cabin gang has traveled to St. Paul to carry the message that Republicans are on the “wrong side of history” when it comes to the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Where to start?
In this must see video Joan Garry, co-chair of the Obama campaign’s LGBT Finance Committee and former Executive Director of GLAAD, Log Cabin Republican Executive Director Patrick Sammon and Washington Blade Editor Kevin Naff discuss the presidential elections. The video is featured on Logo.
Garry gives an impassioned rationale for why LGBT voters and our friends and families must vote for Sen. Barack Obama. As expected, Sammon made excuses for Sen. John McCain’s failure to include LGBT people in his convention speech or even express any support whatsoever for LGBT civil rights.
For anyone who cares about LGBT civil rights, the choice is clear: Barack Obama for President.