WaPo: Obama's HRC speech will focus on 'incremental advancements as evidence of progress'
by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Oct 09, 2009 at 00:49:46 AM EDT
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13414/wapo-obamas-hrc-speech-will-focus-on-incremental-advancements-as-evidence-of-progressOh man, if this is the stale message that the President is going to serve up to the dressed-to-the-nines crowd at the HRC annual dinner, how will they react? And how will that reaction compare to that of the marchers on Sunday? Via the WaPo:
[W]ithin the gay leadership in Washington, established politicians and a freshman class of bolder legislators disagree as to whether the Maine campaign should be central to a larger federal push for equality. Those frustrated voices are lobbying Obama to include a reference to the Maine referendum in his speech. Any failure to do so would be the last straw for many gay activists fed up with the small-bore approach of the Obama White House, the Washington-based gay lobby and the Democratic Party's gay elders.
