And that, in a nutshell, is what this administration thinks of us.

This is why we need GetEqualRobin wouldn’t have said “oh, hey, good to see you.”  She would have proudly made a scene right there on the sidewalk, asking him (rather loudly) why the Obama administration has been backtracking on DADT repeal for months.  Being polite sure as heck hasn’t gotten us anywhere.

meanwhile, dateline: fantasy island(TPM) The AFA thinks we’re running the military — along with Muslim fundamentalists.
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpoin…
The Onion couldn’t make this up.

The text, vic! Don’t say the text!
– M. Python, “The Bishop”

Oh EXCELLENT… yep there is the proof… HRC sold us out AGAIN!

Go get’em GETEQUAL….and please join in anyone who truly does want DADT repealed, and full CIVIL RIGHTS for  ALL.

Screw Em All. Starting on Pennsylvania Av.Now tell me again why I’m so much better off with a Democratic majority in the Congress and a Democratic President?
Is it because the Congress will do something about DADT, ENDA, or DOMA? Is it because the President’s DOJ will refuse to defend DOMA and DADT, or at least will refuse to use insulting Republican memes like incest and pedophilia and two wars? Is it because they will include benefits to me and my family in their health reform (sic) law?
Tell me again why I should vote Democratic. Or vote at all.
Screw ‘em all.

Well,there is that little thing we call the Supreme Court…

Im with yaIm not giving money, I’m not giving my time, I’m not canvassing, stuffing envelopes, phone banking, or anything else until this situation is a reality:  DADT and DOMA repealed, ENDA enacted.  Im done here.  Next stop Lisbon.

But, but see Here is the INSIDE SCOOP….http://tinyurl.com/34shkoxGay Activitst v The Whitehouse The Inside Story.Well, do you believe it? 

…got link from AnnaMarie Cox tweet.

I lost my ear trumpet.I couldn’t hear.  What did Mr. Messina say?

hilariousdid he have to take a shower after brushing shoulders with the uppity gays?

I believe it was “alright, take care”AKA, The “brush off”.

Even I Even I could hear the subtext.  Thanks.  :)

That damage control piece made me barfGee, for an “inside story” he sure missed a lot of relevant fact, like SLDN’s being locked out of the talks.
It’s almost as though it’s propaganda, not actual real reporting.  

That damage control piece made me barfGee, for an “inside story” he sure missed a lot of relevant fact, like SLDN’s being locked out of the talks.
It’s almost as though it’s propaganda, not actual real reporting.  

Consider the content; consider the source.

FIRST THE CONTENT:
The Atlantic’s incurable ObamaRahmbot, Marc Ambinder, seems to assert that just because one theorizes there is a conspiracy to stall/kill repeal in the White House that there can’t be one. Huh?
How is a coordinated plan by members of the administration [Obama, Messina, Gates] to work against [stall, slow walk, obstruct] something gays very much want [repeal] different from “a conspiracy in the White House against gays” except to those fools who still naively believe that Gates presented his stall-a-repeal-vote plan to Congress without the knowledge and permission of his boss, the President.
As for whether Messina and/or Obama are personally “homophobic.” WHO THE F CARES??? As Forrest Gump might say, “Homophobic is as homophobic DOES.”
Let’s contrast Ambinder’s assertion that Messina’s “not while two wars are going on” excuse for stalling is just echoing the President’s official position with what Obama said at the HRC dinner last October, echoing what he’d often said during the election campaign:

“I’m here with a simple message: I’m here with you in that fight. For EVEN AS WE FACE EXTRAORDINARY CHALLENGES AS A NATION, we cannot-AND WE WILL NOT-PUT ASIDE ISSUES OF BASIC EQUALITY. Now, I’ve said this before, I’ll repeat it again — it’s not for me to tell you to be patient, any more than it was for others to counsel patience to African Americans petitioning for equal rights half a century ago.
We should not be punishing patriotic Americans who have stepped forward to serve this country. We should be celebrating their willingness to show such courage and selflessness on behalf of their fellow citizens, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE FIGHTING TWO WARS. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO CUT FROM OUR RANKS PEOPLE WITH THE CRITICAL SKILLS WE NEED TO FIGHT any more than we can afford — for our military’s integrity — to force those willing to do so into careers encumbered and compromised by having to live a lie. I will end Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. That’s my commitment to you.” - Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama, HRC dinner, October 10, 2009.

ADD TO THAT WHAT HE TOLD LGBTS at the White House last June:

“[T]hese [discharges of patriots who often possess critical language skills and years of training and who've served this country well] underscore the URGENCY of reversing this policy not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY.” – Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama, June 29, 2009.

TEN MONTHS LATER, it’s obvious Obama got his definition of “urgency” from the same unique dictionary that he got definitions of “equality” and “imperative” [as in "Equality is a moral imperative."], “compromise” and “equal” [as in "I will never compromise on my commitment to equal rights for all LGBT Americans." and civil unions vs. marriage], “leadership” [as in "Join with me, and I will provide that leadership."], “fierce,” “support,” “end,” and “fight.” I’d guess who gave that dictionary to him but I wouldn’t want to be accused of being a conspiracy theorist.
Most have forgotten the amazing irony [now] in something Pentagon shill Geoff Morell added last May when he was telling the truth about nothing being seriously started yet toward repeal [before he was forced to correct himself, read: LIE two days later and say they had started]:

“[Secretary Gates] has not asked his service chiefs, his service secretaries, his combatant commanders-anything of that sort-to sort of start to do, you know, polling on that matter. I DON’T THINK THIS IS A QUESTION OF POLLING ANYWAY. I mean, this is A QUESTION OF WHERE THE PRESIDENT WANTS TO LEAD THE COUNTRY ON THIS ISSUE, and it’ll be a determination made BY HIM as to IF and WHEN he wishes to pursue this matter WITH THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.”

Ah, we wonder what Geoffy is thinking now?
AS FOR CONSIDERING THE SOURCE:
What’s mindboggling is that he’s an equal opportunity apologist. Here’s brilliant gay civil rights attorney, author, & Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald last August on one of Ambinder’s previous follies, in this case after the revelation, as many suspected, that the Bush Reich had, indeed, used phony terror alerts to manipulate the public. Ambinder had accused those who’d made such charges of being driven by “gut hatred” of Bush. Greenwald could just as easily be writing about Ambinder’s defense today of Obama, Inc./Messina:
“The reason journalists such as Ambinder saw no such evidence wasn’t because it didn’t exist. It existed in abundance; you had to suffer from some form of moral, intellectual or emotional blindness not to see it. It’s because they didn’t want to see it, because — as Ambinder said — they trusted the Bush administration as good and decent people who might err but would never do anything truly dishonest. It’s because only loser Leftist ideologues distrusted Bush officials and the overriding goal of establishment journalists is to prove that they are not like them, that they’re much more serious and responsible and thus would never attribute bad motives to government leaders such as those who ran the Bush administration. [Ambinder believes] that journalists can and should vest the pronouncements of political leaders with faith and trust rather than skepticism.”
So Ambinder’s a reckless apologist for Bush AND Obama?????? Does somebody have a “Daddy complex”?

White House ‘Fixer’ Jim MessinaHours after Max Baucus slipped out the back door of Room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building — in the middle of his committee’s health-care deliberations on Sept. 25 — he pulled up a seat at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas next to Jim Messina, the White House’s political fixer for the reform effort.
http://www.wellnessstarts.com/…

Maybe I should send Obama a letter –A nice, big dictionary with a note suggesting that he look up the words “fierce” and “advocate”.

Good Lord, Michaelthose essays…:)