I'll write the exact same thing I wrote at Pam's here.
And he's absolutely spot-on when it comes to that and we are often the absolute first ones to ride that bus. To our own harm.
Ya know, I could give a hoot if he supports "Nichole" 100% in whatever she chooses to do with her life and how to lead it. For me, that's not the point. Nor is whether or not he can personally support 'gay marriage.'
That he recognizes us as "brothers and sisters" is about 10 light-years past what McBush is willing to admit. That in enough is reason to support him and to reject McBush and the spin-meisters who are hoping profoundly to set-up the typical, congenital Democratic in-fighting as we each try to get the candidate to support every individual hope and dream, idea or belief we subscribe to. Karl Rove, go to Hell! And take your machinations & the ghost of Lee Atwood with you!
It would be nice if my partner and I had our marriage recognized by the Federal government, but that's a congressional issue not an executive one till it comes to signing the bill. I believe Obama will sign it.
I KNOW what will happen if we get 4 more years of the 8 we're just finishing. That is the ONLY damned issue I see as relevant for us all.
So, we can pick at how he feels specifically about most anything and everything, or we can actually realize that there is no candidate ever who will support all the things each of us want to see occur. And allow the spin-meisters to achieve their goal: the election of McBush.
Or we can just realize that someone with a heart, mind and the strength to stand for something that doesn't totally dismiss us out-of-hand is much to be preferred over his super-annuated prisoner-of-war and not at all enthusiastically inclusion-inclined opponent.
Can we get this right for the first time since FDR? Please?
