This is an insult to us all. Kaine's delivery is almost as repulsive as that of LA Gov. Bobby Jindal's to Obama's SOTU speech. We are not children to be talked down to and won't take this kind of tripe anymore.
Watch this (try not to toss your cookies) and listen for the many topics asked in those 5,000 questions not addressed in this video release. It boggles the mind.
From Washington Blade online:
The DNC and the White House ought to be ashamed of this pathetic "effort" to answer a few thousand questions in a 3.3 minute video with no mention of some important issues and concerns.
Sorry Mr. Kaine you have to do better than this, and until you do, the GayTM remains closed here.
The story is HERE.
And so it goes.
Update from John Aravosis at AMERICAblog Gay:
Yes, the DNC did a video about us. All about us. And if it were 1985, we'd be on our knees thanking them for acknowledging our pathetic existence. But since it's 2010, it's not enough for the Democrats to keep doing these very public but very lacking in substance efforts to buy off our money and our votes.Read it all HERE.
I've made the comparison to high school before. And how when we were all insecure children, we practically waited on pins and needles for that one moment in the hallway when one of the popular kids might look our way and smile, or maybe even said "hi."
But we're not pathetic kids anymore. And doing a video about us, showing up at some organization's dinner, or throwing us a cocktail party in the White House isn't going to cut it anymore. We no longer feel the overwhelming need to be accepted into the cool kids club. We are the cool kids now. Our community has the money, the votes, the power. We are a key constituency of the Democratic party, and you'd better damn well be wooing us, because you need us. And we've finally come to realize that point. YOU need US.
Couldn't agree with both of you more. For the first time in my life I may not vote at all for either party. The Dems ALWAYS take the GBLT vote for granted. They think we have nowhere else to go. I won't vote for the Repugs. I can't vote for the spineless, afraid they'll lose a few straight votes, Dems. Oh when will the Democratic leadership wake up to the fact that the country is way ahead of them as to the war and GLBT rights? Probably not in in my lifetime. To quote Peter Finch "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Fuck 'em.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like Mr. Rogers reading letters he received from Lori in California.
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a single politician that my GayTM will function for this year.
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