Posted on 07/06/2009 7:53:57 PM PDT by Libloather
The Note: Little Hurts -- Obama Guards Against Angst on Left
By RICK KLEIN
June 29, 2009 8:04 AM
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“The conflicting signals from the White House about its commitment to gay issues reflect a broader paradox: even as cultural acceptance of homosexuality increases across the country, the politics of gay rights remains full of crosscurrents,” Adam Nagourney writes in the Sunday New York Times. “The Obama White House in particular is reluctant to embrace gay rights issues now, officials there say, because they do not want to provide social conservatives a rallying cry while the president is trying to assemble legislative coalitions on health care and other initiatives.”
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...Jarrett Barrios, incoming president of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (and husband of former Gore and Hillary Clinton spokesman Doug Hattaway), writes in a Washington Post op-ed.
“As President Obama, he has presided over an administration that has stumbled -- sometimes symbolically, sometimes substantially -- in its commitment to include us on the agenda,” Barrios writes.
There will be movement, one way or another: “House Democratic leaders are starting to show signs that they are now ready to push key aspects of the gay rights agenda,” Roll Call’s Jennifer Bendery and Steven T. Dennis report. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her leadership team met privately last week with Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Jared Polis (D-Colo.) -- the three openly gay Members of Congress -- to chart a strategy for advancing gay rights issues this Congress.”
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“The rising tensions between Democratic legislators and constituencies that would typically be their natural allies underscore the high hurdles for Obama as he tries to hold together a diverse, fragile coalition,” Ceci Connolly writes in the Sunday Washington Post.
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Put America first? Fegitaboudit...
It’s Wake Up And Smell the Defeat time for Hussein and Congress!
The Tea Party movement all across America is drawing Democrats,
Republicans, and Independents. 2010 and 2012 is Vote Out Incumbents! Yes, the anger is real! Read the Tea Party signs stupid!!
Well now that I’ve cleaned the Dr. Pepper out of my keyboard, I don’t think we need to ask here.
parsy, who couldn’t find the Indian Chief.
Is that the ‘local’ YMCA? LMAO!
Check the picture closely... Yes, that is Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco City hall.
They got Obama to proclaim the whole bloomin’ month of June as LGTBDA month (or whatever the alphabet soup du jour is today). What do they want Barack to do already, dress in drag and go strutting in a parade?
Palomino!
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