Hillary's gay problem and her gay face

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From The Personal Is Political:

watch this interview Hillary did with the gay cable network, Logo.

First, the issue comes up about her never using the g-word, and she does use it, once during an entire 5 minute interview with a gay station about gay issues, while mentioning "gay organizations." But notice how repeatedly in the interview Hillary hesitates and stumbles at places where you would naturally expect her to say the word "gay" - she doesn't say it - she kind of stops, doesn't say gay, then moves on. Watch the video for yourself. She's not comfortable saying the word. Obama is. I think that tells you something about how they feel about the issue inside. It's likely generational - he's in his 40s, my generation, she's 60. A transcript of the worst part follows the video, below - note particularly the question and her answer 1 minute and 2 seconds in:

(watch the video)

1:02 LOGO: "Your opponent, Senator Obama, regularly mentions gay people in his stump speech... You don't mention gay rights all the time in your stump speech, you do when you're in front of gay audiences, why is that?"

1:21 CLINTON: "Well I do mention, uh, from time to time, um, you know I don't mention, you know, everything in every speech that I give, but uh people, you know, know how committed I am and they know what I've done, and that I led the efforts uh to try and defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment*, working with you know all of the major uh gay rights organizations, uh, so you know I'm gonna continue to not just talk about what I will do but demonstrate by my actions what I have done and will do."

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...more at the link
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/04/hillarys-gay-problem-her-gay-face.html

[xchrom]

1. donnie mcclurkin, mary mary, etc --

no aplogy -- support for the ex-gay movement, talk about loving the sinner and hating the sin.

obama has a far far worse problem with ''gay'' than any of the other candidates who ran this year.

[mac2]

2. Hillary gay?

Low blow and propaganda to win a primary don't you think?

[msongs]

3. dems for true equality were voted out of the primaries months ago leaving obamahillary. ugh nt

[maddiejoan]

4. Who the hell cares?

seriously.

On LGBT issues, Clinton and Obama are exactly the same "on paper". Though I trust Hillary on these issues more, as she seems to have a deeper understanding of the history and and struggles of the LGBT rights movement.

One thing I'll note, however --is that while Obama has used LGBT organizations to raise funds for himself -- Hillary actually has a history of helping to raise funds for LGBT organizations.

To suggest that Hillary is uncomfortable with gays is ridiculous.

[lumpy]

5. Couldn't agree more. The comment that Clinton is reluctant to

use the word gay is trying to make something out of absolutely nothing.

[goletian]

6. "I THINK WE WERE JUST BOTH RELIEVED THAT ATER 20 DEBATES WE MIGHT'VE FINALLY REACHED THE END OF THE

DEBATE ROAD."

this is the woman you trust? shes got lies for days.