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Yeah (5.00 / 1) (#30)
by Kathy on Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 12:32:02 PM EST
"Some of my best friends are gay, even the ones whose names I can't remember."

I also love the line about how the gay proff was comfortable in his own skin and didn't "proselytize."  Yeah, don't you hate it when they rub it in your face?  Ew!

This takes the cake, though:

Had the race stopped cold in the snows of New Hampshire, gays and lesbians would have been left with one interview of record for each Democratic candidate in total.

Which is BULLSH*T.  Clinton called the HRC to her senate office and strategized with them on how to defeat the gay marriage ban and how to make sure it never came back.  She was the first first lady to march in a gay pride parade.  She has been a staunch supporter of gay rights from the get-go.  Some of y'all might not remember what it was like to be gay in 1992, but it wasn't all Will and Grace.  It was death threats and hate out in the open.  

It just gobsmacks me that anyone in the gay community can get excited about taking these scraps from Obama.  The disloyalty is gut wrenching to me.

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The message that I get from him (none / 0) (#36)
by andgarden on Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 12:35:15 PM EST
is "I can take you or leave you." He makes me feel like I'm trying to sell a car or something. It's really the perfect antidote to Hillary's (admittedly quite generic) "you are not invisible to me" slogan.

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I really don't find that "generic" (none / 0) (#53)
by Kathy on Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 12:46:00 PM EST
and I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, but the Advocate really ticked me off making it sound like Clinton was just as bad as Obama about giving interviews to the gay press.  The Advocate is not the only gay "news" mag she has spoken with:

Clinton has done interviews with Dallas Voice, The Washington Blade, The Philadelphia Gay News, and two gay newspapers in Ohio. Last week, The Philadelphia Gay News left a blank space next to the newspaper's interview with Clinton to draw attention to Obama's snub.

As a senator, Clinton worked very hard to open a gay and lesbian only high school in NY city.  She was appalled by the statistic--which has held since I was in high school--showing glbt teens have a significantly higher rate of suicide.  She used a lot of political clout and ticked off a lot of upstate conservatives with this, but she helped get it done.

She's not just there for interviews when she's running for election.  She knows the issues, she knows what is important and she knows how to get things done.  How many US senators do you think summoned the HRC during the gay marriage amendment bullsh*t to try to figure out what to do?

And don't even get me started on O's macho "Don't-worry-folks-I'm-a-real-man!" chuckling about being tested for HIV during one of the debates.  People in the Community who let him get away with this crap, when we've got one of the staunchest defenders of gay rights running against them...should not talk to me about this right now because I can really, really cuss really well.

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You missed this paragraph (none / 0) (#124)
by facta non verba on Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 02:18:59 PM EST
that prefaced the interview:

Unlike his rival Hillary Clinton, who's given interviews to Logo and several local papers since appearing on the cover of The Advocate last fall, the Illinois senator has only talked once, to address the Donnie McClurkin controversy.

So I didn't get that impression. Of course I have also read some of the Clinton interviews in the gay media. I think most gay men who read the Advocate (which is subscription and national) would also be reading their local gay newspaper (which are free). I love my BAR (Bay Area Reporter) and read several more online.

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