I know it’s cruel to place videos of speeches by Barack Obama and John McCain side by side, but John McCain is asking for it. McCain has challenged Obama to a series of ten town hall meetings so that they can go mano a mano on on policy issues big and small.
Republican Sen. John McCain challenged his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, to a series of 10 joint town hall meetings, starting next week in New York City, and said the American people deserve “a new tenor” in its presidential campaigns.
Less than a day after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, McCain delivered a letter to his campaign, formally proposing what he had raised last month. In the letter, he proposed that the two men fly to the first town hall meeting in the same plane as symbol that they are “embracing the politics of civility.”
As a stronger supporter of Obama, I say “bring it on.”
The Human Rights Campaign PAC has released a blistering report on Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s pathetic record on LGBT civil rights. The report entitled John McCain: A Record of Opposing the Interests of GLBT Americans shows that while McCain maybe be a “straight” talker, he is no maverick when it comes to supporting the right of LGBT Americans to equal treatment under the law.
As an antidote to the straight-washed version of history foisted on us by traditional media and educational institutions, I present to you 10 Gay Documentaries Everyone Should See. These ten films only begin to scratch the surface of the rich and amazing history of LGBT people. Find out more at the GLBT Historical Society.
If you have other suggestions of gay documentaries that people should see, leave the titles in the comments section.
1. Before Stonewall - shows that gay history did not begin with the Stonewall Riots, but in fact existed far before it. Through the use of archival footage and interviews, the film shows vividly what life was like when gays were forced to hide their sexuality for fear of reprisals.
Barack Obama delivered an amazing speech in Iowa last night. He traces the journey of the campaign from the beginning when few believed that he had a chance at winning the nomination to now when he is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency.
In this speech Barack shows again why he is the president that we need now to help lift the country from the wreckage of nearly eight years under George Bush.
The full text of Barack Obama’s speech in Iowa is after the jump.
Did you know that John McCain is older than the state of Alaska, the polio vaccine and the chocolate chip cookie? He is also older than Mount Rushmore, the nation of Israel and FM radio.
While McCain’s staff and supporters are likely to try to spin this as “ageism,” I agree with Ezra Klein:
That’s all sort of funny, but it also points to a more serious critique of McCain’s mindset, which mixes a deep desire for World War II-style heroics with a habituation to the paranoia and fear typical of the Cold War-era. What you don’t see in McCain is much recognition that the world has changed, that today’s threats are considerably less deadly than yesterday’s dangers, and that it’s been a very long time since America was a rigidly ordered society that needed its leaders to provide appropriate martial values.
While there is no shame in being older than the ballpoint pen, it is McCain’s stuck in time mindset that makes him unfit for the challenges that we are facing. McCain is trapped in the kind of mindset that led us into the Iraq war and that promises to keep American troops there for many years to come. We need and deserve better.
We need someone who is not stuck in the past to challenge Americans to unite to solve the current crises that we are facing including global warming, our crumbling healthcare system and our shattered international reputation.
The world has changed greatly even in just the last 7 disastrous years of the Bush administration.
We need a president who will inspire us to rise to met the challenges of our generation not ask us stick our collective fingers in our ears while shouting “We’re number 1! We’re number 1!”
That is the question that must be asked after Clinton said:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
Hard-working white Americans? As opposed to the shiftless and lazy Negroes who tried to steal HER rightful claim to the presidency by voting for Barack Obama?
During this primary season Hillary Clinton has morphed into the worst kind of politician. She has proven again and again with Bill invoking Jesse Jackson before the South Carolina primary, Andrew Cuomo using the term “shuck and jive” in reference to Obama and Geraldine Ferraro saying that Obama is only where he is because he Black, that she is willing to campaign in ways that are racist and divisive.
I was telling a friend just yesterday that I was beginning to feel sorry for her because she had worked so hard to win the nomination but was coming up short. Now I just want Clinton and her cynical, manipulative and divisive politics to just go away.
The boys at Queerty have a series of interviews with three of Barack Obama’s key gay supporters including Stampp Corbin, Eric Stern and Tobias Wolf. Definitely a must read.
In a discussion of recent comments made by Michelle Obama, Bill O’Reilly took a call from a listener who stated that, according to “a friend who had knowledge of her,” Obama ” ‘is a very angry,’ her word was ‘militant woman.’ ” O’Reilly later stated: “I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels — that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever — then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.”
