Posted on 10/13/2014 3:14:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When President Barack Obama launched his campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat in late 2002, his wife Michelle enlisted the help of a longtime friend, Kevin Thompson. Michelle had gotten to know Thompson back in the early 1990s, when she was still Michelle Robinson and the pair worked in the policy shop of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Over the years, the two had stayed close, working together again at the University of Chicago Hospitals and swapping home improvement ideas over meals.
Obama, who was then a state senator, would be facing off in the Democratic primary against businessman Blair Hull and State Comptroller Dan Hynes. Both had much greater name recognition and resources. Thompson dedicated himself to helping build support for Obama on the liberal Lakefront on the North Side of Chicago, which included the uber-gay neighborhood of Boystown centered on North Halsted Avenue.
At that time, Obama had very little gay support to speak of. Thompson, who is gay, wanted to fix that. In early 2003, he organized a Sunday afternoon meet-and-greet at a small bar called Cocktail. Obama drank beer, smoked cigarettes, and chatted with the crowd of a few dozen for a couple hours.
After Obama cruised to victory in the March 2004 primary, the race shifted from urban Cook County to the entire state. Thompson joined the campaign fulltime to become Obama’s “body man,” which meant he’d be with the candidate from morning to night, helping him prepare for events. The two men got along well, and they had something else in common: they were both biracial, with a white mother and black father.
One day they were driving to a Democratic Party event in Schuyler County in the very rural west-central part of the state, known in the Illinois political world as Forgottonia....
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he’s a liar and could care less about morality
Obama didn’t “evolve” on this issue. He was ALWAYS for gay rights (being a closeted homo himself). He simply originally lied about his views knowing at the time they could cost him the election.
He was pro-homosexuality from the beginning. There was no “evolution”.
The bar is called cock tail. Sick!
It was only to be expected.
Because Obama is a creepy, marxist, dog-eating faggot.
Is Barack Obama Gay?
http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay
There was no “evolution”. He is a liberal and lied about his position on gay marriage in order to get elected.
Evolution? Gimme a break. He always planned to support the homo agenda just like he had always planned to attack the 2nd Amendment. He didn’t flip flop on either issue he just lied to get elected and re-elected.
1. A teenaged Obama meets with Frank Marshall Davis, a communist and notorious pervert.
2. Obama ends up smoking Davis' joint.
Obola’s brain has been rotted by all the feces he has eaten. Also, Stonewall was a riot over a homo’s right to molest a teenager. In my opinion, the cops should have SHOT all of those rioters.
Hard to believe anyone would take this pablum seriously.
But then, it’s hard to believe anyone would read New Republic.
In a word - money (and a few more - from another special interest group)....
I would best low-information Russians pretty much accepted whatever came out in Pravda during the Soviet era. No difference with our own media today.
Being a pro-gay rights president shouldn’t mean anything in the constitutional republic. But as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught about 10th Amendment-protected state powers versus constitutionally enumerated rights, voters don’t understand that the Constitution needs to be amended to expressly protect so-called gay “rights,” the states having never done so.
What evolution? He was always a radical leftist, he just his his views from the voting public.
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