Clinton leads among gay super delegates

[cboy4]

McClurkin!

Campaigns aggressively courting uncommitted Dems

LOU CHIBBARO JR
Friday, February 15, 2008

Twenty-one openly gay Democrats have been identified as super delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer, and 12 have declared their support for presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As of this week, just two of the gay super delegates had declared their support for presidential contender Barack Obama, while seven were listed as undeclared.

Under party rules, super delegates — who consist mostly of party activists, Democratic governors and members of Congress — are not obligated to commit themselves to any candidate and are free to switch from one candidate to another.

In a telephone briefing for the news media on Tuesday, the National Stonewall Democrats, the gay partisan group, released the names of the known gay male and lesbian super delegates. Officials with the group noted that, similar to most of the 796 super delegates, the gay and lesbians among their ranks are longtime party activists in their respective states.

http://www.washblade.com/2008/2-15/news/national/12027.cfm

[susankh4]

1. Thanks for the update!

This is helpful.
I'll be passing it along.

[terrya]

2. Thanks for posting this - recommended

[DDQ]

3. Thank you for posting this

[Obamaniac]

4. Who cares???

What difference does that make. She's still going to lose.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Yeah

It's great to know your guy has the homophobe vote wrapped up...


I hear Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are endorsing him...

[Name removed]

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. I Will Probably Leave The Presidential Part Of The Ballot Blank In November

When you vote for a candidate you empower their followers as well as him or her and I don't want that on my conscience...

[MethuenProgressive]

16. You need to put " "s around that Obama quote about LGBT rights. "Who cares???"

[bowens43]

8. So it's ok for super deligates to throw

the election and undermine our system of government because they think Hillary is more gay friendly? That's fucking disgusting. These people lack integrity just like Hillary. Truly pathetic.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. I Don't Think The OP Suggested That But Hate Away

And what the fuck does "gay friendly" mean coming from this straight guy?


Gay folks should not have one more right than straight folks or one right less for that matter...

[terrya]

10. There are Obama super delegates, you know

You DO know that, right?

And the super delegates who are gay chose Hillary, I'm sure, for a variety of reasons. But if they're like me, they did also take into consideration that she IS more attuned to the GLBT community and its issues than your candidate.

And by the way...learn to fucking spell, all right? It's "delegates" not "deligates". There IS Spell check here.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. This Board Is Ridiculous

You can't come here anymore without getting in a fight...Sad...However, these bullies wouldn't begin to scare me in real life and they aren't going to scare me over the "internets"...

[terrya]

14. I've had with the "who cares" and "get over it" shit around here.

If you don't fucking care about GLBT people and their issues, fine. But don't come piss into a thread about issues that other people DO care about. I don't do it...I don't go into a positive thread about Obama and make snarky, bullshit comments like the above asshole did in this thread.

[cboy4]

18. Yea, actions have consequences don't they bowens43?

It's a good lesson for you and Obama.

[DDQ]

23. Yeah just keep spewing out hatred for people who are LGBT

and for women...And you call yourself a Democrat? You sound like a Republican to me.

[NMMNG]

24. I'm sorry you have so little regard for Human/Civil Rights

But thankfully you aren't one of the super delegates.

[Straight Shooter]

26. You have a lot of nerve to talk about "fucking disgusting"

Looked in the mirror lately?

[InsultComicDog]

12. interesting

And I guess it makes sense.

(Sorry, and I realize this is wrong in so many ways: am I warped for getting a mental image of drag queens dressed like Hillary?)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. It's Not Wrong

We have come to expect the latent or not so latent homophobia among a certain candidate's supporters...

L'Affaire McClurkin tipped us off...

[MethuenProgressive]

15. Kick & rec #5!

:kick:

[xchrom]

17. ...

:kick:

[IndianaGreen]

19. Including Barney Frank, who removed the transgender from ENDA protection

and caught a lot of hell for doing so.

[Yurem2008]

20. Obama is more handsome than Bill

Obama just needs to resurrect his photo in swimming trunks and Hillary is toast with the Superdelegates in question...sorry, I know, bad taste on my part...

[terrya]

21. Um, yeah it is.

Barack Obama is a handsome guy. But we're not looking for some j/o fantasy. Believe it or not, we're not silly, frivolous people. We gay people have the same concerns as you heteros...the war in Iraq, the economy, global warming, etc. There are some gay guys who have decided that Obama would be the better President. And, in the case the OP mentioned, those gay super delegates have decided on Hillary. It's that simple.

[dsc]

22. yeah

somehow I imagine if I suggest Hillary served black superdelegates watermelon and chicken it would be viewed as a bit more than bad taste.

[NMMNG]

25. Yes, that would work because all gay people care about is sex.

Jesus Christ I get so sick of the bullshit around here some times. :banghead:

[Nutmegger]

27. R&K

Thank you for posting this.