Yawn, HRC Endorses Obama
Just realized I had neglected to post on that the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) endorsed Barack Obama for President soon after the Illinois Senator won enough delegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination. I guess I forgot about it because HRC endorsing the Democratic nominee is about as newsworthy as Fred Phelps’ church protesting a funeral. It’s what they do.
I mean, HRC even refused to rescind its endorsement of Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection after that Democrat signed the Defense of Marriage ACT (DOMA).
There may be an interesting wrinkle to the HRC endorsement this year. A source told me the Board’s vote was far from unanimous. Apparently some Board members expressed strong reservations about backing the Democratic nominee this year. I am trying to verify that.
Such dissension would help confirm what I’ve been noticing about Gay Democrats backing John McCain as it suggests the HRC Board may be more broad-minded that its overwhelmingly Democratic membership would indicate.
UPDATE: As part of my attempt to verify dissension on the HRC Board about the decision to endorse the Democratic nominee, I contacted some politically-connected friends in DC who might be “in the know.” One wrote back: “I haven’t heard that… I would be a little surprised if that were true. I know most of the HRC folks were all in for Hillary but I would be shocked if there was any dissension on that board about backing the Democratic nominee.”
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I’d be curious to know their excuse for supporting Snobama.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — June 10, 2008 @ 7:56 pm - June 10, 2008
This would be a fabulous candidate for Taranto’s “bottom stories of the day” Complete with double-entendre
• “Owners of Hardware Store Unsure About Future”–headline, BayNews9.com (St. Petersburg, Fla.), June 9
• “Catfish Named After Mailroom Supervisor”–headline, Chicago Sun-Times, June 9
• “Rep. Kucinich Calls for Bush Impeachment”–headline, Reuters, June 9
• “Gay Group Backs Obama”
Comment by American Elephant — June 10, 2008 @ 7:57 pm - June 10, 2008
But, so much the better since, as a study found, the endorsement of gay groups hurt, not help, a candidate
Comment by American Elephant — June 10, 2008 @ 8:04 pm - June 10, 2008
I pay this as much heed as I did when I was in a union and they similarly prostituted themselves regularly to the Dems…
Comment by John — June 11, 2008 @ 9:23 am - June 11, 2008
And in other late-breaking news, the sky is blue and grass is green. /SARC
Why oh why is HRC backing someone whose ethnic and religious upbringing focuses so much hatred on gays and lesbians? Simply because they have a (D) after their name??
Words fail me.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — June 11, 2008 @ 12:16 pm - June 11, 2008