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    (Newsweek)

    It won't be nearly as controversial as Time magazine's breastfeeding cover, but Newsweek's May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country's "first gay president."

    The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular--and openly gay--political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo.

    Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family."

    The full cover story is not yet online, but in a blog post published earlier this week, Sullivan wrote that Obama's support of gay marriage brought him to tears:


    I do not know how orchestrated this was; and I do not know how calculated it is. What I know is that, absorbing the news, I was uncharacteristically at a loss for words for a while, didn't know what to write, and, like many Dish readers, there are tears in my eyes.

    So let me simply say: I think of all the gay kids out there who now know they have their president on their side. I think of Maurice Sendak, who just died, whose decades-long relationship was never given the respect it deserved. I think of the centuries and decades in which gay people found it impossible to believe that marriage and inclusion in their own families was possible for them, so crushed were they by the weight of social and religious pressure. I think of all those in the plague years shut out of hospital rooms, thrown out of apartments, written out of wills, treated like human garbage because they loved another human being. I think of Frank Kameny. I think of the gay parents who now feel their president is behind their sacrifices and their love for their children.

    The interview changes no laws; it has no tangible effect. But it reaffirms for me the integrity of this man we are immensely lucky to have in the White House. Obama's journey on this has been like that of many other Americans, when faced with the actual reality of gay lives and gay relationships. Yes, there was politics in a lot of it. But not all of it. I was in the room long before the 2008 primaries when Obama spoke to the mother of a gay son about marriage equality. He said he was for equality, but not marriage. Five years later, he sees--as we all see--that you cannot have one without the other. But even then, you knew he saw that woman's son as his equal as a citizen. It was a moment--way off the record at the time--that clinched my support for him.

    Today Obama did more than make a logical step. He let go of fear. He is clearly prepared to let the political chips fall as they may. That's why we elected him.



    (The New Yorker)

    The New Yorker, which is also out with a cover story on gay marriage, took a bit more subtle approach with its May 21 issue.

    "It's a celebratory moment for our country, and that's what I tried to capture," Bob Staake, the artist behind the New Yorker cover, said. "I don't especially like those rainbow colors, but they are what they are—I had to use them."

    He added: "I wanted to celebrate the bravery of the President's statement—a statement long overdue—but all the more appreciated in this political year. We are on the right side of history."
    satisfaction is the death of desire...

    its still "We the people"...right?

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    As much as I hate Obamas guts, I'm glad he did it. I have little doubt he only did it for political gain, but the fact that it is out there at least sets a precedent.

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    • #3
      Just because someone supports gay marriage it does not make them gay.
      I don't like Republicans, but I really FUCKING hate Democrats.


      Sex with an Asian woman is great, but 30 minutes later you're horny again.

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      • #4
        Obama is at the very least bi-sexual but probably more gay than straight. There are several rumors of Barack Obama being gay, memberships to gay bath houses, former students who attend college when Obama taught filing complaints against him for sexual related issues, Larry Sinclair's claims and also the guy who ended up dead from Chicago that attended church with Obama and was rumored to be his lover.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by talisman View Post
          As much as I hate Obamas guts, I'm glad he did it. I have little doubt he only did it for political gain, but the fact that it is out there at least sets a precedent.

          Mighty convenient this comes out at the same time charges of contempt against Eric Holder are recommended by the House Oversight committee.
          Men have become the tools of their tools.
          -Henry David Thoreau

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          • #6
            Originally posted by BERNIE MOSFET View Post
            Mighty convenient this comes out at the same time charges of contempt against Eric Holder are recommended by the House Oversight committee.
            Yep, you hit that one on the head.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by LANTIRN View Post
              Just because someone supports gay marriage it does not make them gay.
              I think it's figurative, not literal.
              Originally posted by mightyp View Post
              Obama, Sullivan writes, "had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family."
              Originally posted by Broncojohnny
              HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by LANTIRN View Post
                Just because someone supports gay marriage it does not make them gay.


                Gay lover! lol
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                • #9
                  I have a feeling this one political pander is going to play a big part in Obama eating shit this election. Great way to alienate yourself from 70% of the voters.
                  "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                  "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
                    I have a feeling this one political pander is going to play a big part in Obama eating shit this election. Great way to alienate yourself from 70% of the voters.
                    Exactly my thoughts on it. This is an "all in" strategy. There is a good chance that he just fucked himself over.
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                    What's your beef with NPR, because their listeners are typically more informed than others?
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                    Voting is a constitutional right, overthrowing the government isn't.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Broncojohnny View Post
                      Exactly my thoughts on it. This is an "all in" strategy. There is a good chance that he just fucked himself over.
                      He's about to find out liberals make up 22% of our population.
                      "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                      "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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                      • #12
                        So he's going for the, "ich bin ein Berliner," angle, but using a shill to declare it for him? What kind of fuckery is this?
                        ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by 5.0_CJ View Post
                          I have a feeling this one political pander is going to play a big part in Obama eating shit this election. Great way to alienate yourself from 70% of the voters.
                          You think? I'm not arguing, just seems like people are a lot more open about it (gay marriage) than they used to be over all. At least from a legal point of view, even if they are not gay themselves.

                          I'm opposed to it, but refuse to argue about it because I won't change my mind. If you're gay that's one thing...anyway, my point is I see a lot of people supporting it that I never though would've.
                          Originally posted by MR EDD
                          U defend him who use's racial slurs like hes drinking water.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by ceyko View Post
                            You think? I'm not arguing, just seems like people are a lot more open about it (gay marriage) than they used to be over all. At least from a legal point of view, even if they are not gay themselves.

                            I'm opposed to it, but refuse to argue about it because I won't change my mind. If you're gay that's one thing...anyway, my point is I see a lot of people supporting it that I never though would've.
                            There's no doubt that the overwhelming majority of people do not support gay marriage. This is different from civil unions. Every single time it's put up for a vote, it goes down in flames. Even in California.
                            "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin
                            "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." -Alexander Fraser Tytler

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