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SteveAudio —
The wingnut monkeys are throwing crap through the cage bars, trying to hit anything. Among the latest is this mailer from the Yes on Prop 8 idiots: Lying hypocritical bastards! Oops, I mean Republicans. As usual, the No on Prop 8 campaign responded immediately with an ad quoting Barack Obama: The publishing and advertising geniuses who put this trash together made a Freudian proof-reading error, that's almost comical: Yep. The SCARED institution of marriage. If these folks were tools, ...
The Fight Over Obama's Franchise
Open Left - Front Page —
This is a flyer being used by conservatives in California to pass Proposition 8, a segregationist proposal to deny marriage rights to gay people. And the quotes in it are absolutely true. Obama has consistently been against marriage equality, both as a Christian and a politician. It's clear to diehard progressive supporters of Obama that he's simply pandering to conservatives, that he is essentially lying about his position because he knows that there's no way to win as a black man supporting gay rights this strongly. It's equally clear to conservative supporters of Obama that he's telling ...
Using Obama against Prop. 8
Ben Smith's Blog —
I mentioned earlier that the backers of a same-sex marriage ban in California used Obama in a mailing to black voters.
The "no" side in California's gay marriage ban fight, a friends notes, is also using him, in the ad above.
Californians, Please Vote NO on 8
The Washington Note —
It's time for tolerance to break out in this country.
I was the first blogger to put the disgusting Republican National Committee mailers from the 2004 race on line which suggested that Democrats would ban the Bible and turn their states into havens of homosexuality. These flyers were sent to church parish rosters in Arkansas, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and other key battleground states in that Bush-Kerry race.
That flyer was not about homosexuality breaking out everywhere or that Dems would not support the Christian religion. It was ...
Obama, Schwarzenegger, Feinstein
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
A strong new ad by the No On 8 campaign:
William Bradley: The Tragedy of California's Prop 8
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Whether we like it or not, the proponents of Prop 8 ran a devastatingly effective ad campaign.
The California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8, last November's successful initiative against same-sex marriage is all the more tragic in that the initiative never should have passed in the first place.
California has a long history of initiatives, dating back to the Progressive era efforts to smash special interest corporate stranglehold -- principally in the form of the railroads -- over state government. But, while still a useful ...
