Chris Crain, on Obama vs. Clinton on gay rights:
I know what life is like for gays who live in my native South, and I’ve seen firsthand how the issue can rip apart families and friendships. And laws like the Defense of Marriage Act have a direct impact on my life, since my partner and I cannot live together in the U.S. because of it. It makes a real difference to me that Barack Obama favors full repeal of DOMA and Hillary only half, and because she has consistently tried to defend the nefarious law signed by her husband in 1996.
I still see no difference. Both call for repeal. There is no half repeal.
I STILL expect Obama to apologize for pandering with Donnie McClurkin in South Carolina and allowing the homophobic minister Kirbyjon Caldwell to push for him as well. Hillary hasn’t, to my knowledge, been caught running around with homophobes to win votes and that still carries weight to me.
It does look like Obama’s all but sealed up the nomination at this point, whereupon I hope he stops trying to be all things to all people and realizes that you don’t bring two divergent opinions together by pandering to both sides, you do it by providing the actual solution to the problem.
Uhm. The nomination is hardly wrapped up. Hillary still has bunch of superdelegates pledged to her, and getting out of that pledge will be tough, politically, for those people.
it’s going to come down to the superdelegates in the end, which may be good or bad for Obama, or for the democratic party.
At least the republicans are facing the same problem the democrats have been facing for a decade: We don’t like any of these fuckers.
Let’a debate on Tin Man’s blog! :-)
Do you really think that Dean and the DNC would let it drag down and actually come down to the party establishment choosing a candidate over the popular vote winner?
Of course, my opinion is that we’ll see the convention roll around with, say, Obama holding the delegate lead and Clinton leading in votes (Which is how Super Tuesday panned out), giving both a “legitimate” claim to the superdelegates’ support.