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		<title>by: bernarda</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-463093</link>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Apparently now McJerkin has claimed that Jeebus saved him from being a homo. Do I smell a musty damp closet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Apparently now McJerkin has claimed that Jeebus saved him from being a homo. Do I smell a musty damp closet?
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		<title>by: CaseyL</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462826</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462826</guid>
					<description>&lt;i&gt;Democratic field is getting more and more distasteful every day.&lt;/i&gt;

Only if you've decided that Clinton is &quot;nothing more than Bush-Lite&quot; or &quot;Dick Cheney in a pants suit.&quot;

And if you've decided that, then you've bought into the best self-sabotaging meme the Right could sell us:  that our strongest, toughest,most kick-ass-and-take-names candidate is the only one not worthy of our support.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><i>Democratic field is getting more and more distasteful every day.</i></p>
	<p>Only if you&#8217;ve decided that Clinton is &#8220;nothing more than Bush-Lite&#8221; or &#8220;Dick Cheney in a pants suit.&#8221;</p>
	<p>And if you&#8217;ve decided that, then you&#8217;ve bought into the best self-sabotaging meme the Right could sell us:  that our strongest, toughest,most kick-ass-and-take-names candidate is the only one not worthy of our support.
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		<title>by: Hector B.</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462705</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Pam, I don't want to be a total jerk. You have to face &quot;Christian&quot; homophobia all the time. How do you survive? Will McClurkin's embrace of Obama make things a lot worse for you?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Pam, I don&#8217;t want to be a total jerk. You have to face &#8220;Christian&#8221; homophobia all the time. How do you survive? Will McClurkin&#8217;s embrace of Obama make things a lot worse for you?
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		<title>by: tinfoil hattie</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462669</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462669</guid>
					<description>&lt;i&gt;...they have been bamboozled to think that a quick thrust in the dark is all they deserve as gay men.&lt;/i&gt;

and for the married ones, all their wives deserve in a partner.

Democratic field is getting more and more distasteful every day.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><i>&#8230;they have been bamboozled to think that a quick thrust in the dark is all they deserve as gay men.</i></p>
	<p>and for the married ones, all their wives deserve in a partner.</p>
	<p>Democratic field is getting more and more distasteful every day.
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		<title>by: Swedgin</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462640</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462640</guid>
					<description>Obama is sort of turning into the Left's Fred Thompson...people are more in love with the idea of Barack Obama than his actual candidacy.  So far his biggest assets are who he isn't married to and what he wasn't in office to vote for...and the money he has raised from those that history or the lack thereof.

The '08 elections are really just disappointing me on more and more levels every day.  There were so many opportunities lost, so many chances to move the country forward, and to a candidate every position has been more calculated than inspirational...and the few times anyone has gone off script we've had a train wreck (Bill Richardson).  It's all pissing contests and chest beating on the right, and this sort of half-assed, &quot;see, I'm not really librul&quot; shit from Obama and Hillary.  

Tough week for Oprah.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Obama is sort of turning into the Left&#8217;s Fred Thompson&#8230;people are more in love with the idea of Barack Obama than his actual candidacy.  So far his biggest assets are who he isn&#8217;t married to and what he wasn&#8217;t in office to vote for&#8230;and the money he has raised from those that history or the lack thereof.</p>
	<p>The &#8216;08 elections are really just disappointing me on more and more levels every day.  There were so many opportunities lost, so many chances to move the country forward, and to a candidate every position has been more calculated than inspirational&#8230;and the few times anyone has gone off script we&#8217;ve had a train wreck (Bill Richardson).  It&#8217;s all pissing contests and chest beating on the right, and this sort of half-assed, &#8220;see, I&#8217;m not really librul&#8221; shit from Obama and Hillary.  </p>
	<p>Tough week for Oprah.
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		<title>by: CaseyL</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462611</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462611</guid>
					<description>I'm really amazed at what an empty suit Obama turned out to be, considering how enthused I was about him when he first announced.  I thought he'd be a breath of fresh air precisely because he had not been part of the national political trauma of the last 15 years (or, for that matter, part of the racial trauma of the last 200+ years).  

It's a damned shame, because he really did have the potential to be that fresh start.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>I&#8217;m really amazed at what an empty suit Obama turned out to be, considering how enthused I was about him when he first announced.  I thought he&#8217;d be a breath of fresh air precisely because he had not been part of the national political trauma of the last 15 years (or, for that matter, part of the racial trauma of the last 200+ years).  </p>
	<p>It&#8217;s a damned shame, because he really did have the potential to be that fresh start.
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		<title>by: deep6</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462609</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>I caught Maher too.  Yeah, Sullivan's tantrum was just weird.  Especially when he started arguing with Wes Clark and Clark was just looking at him like, what's your problem?  You really want to argue about this now??

Apparently Sullivan is also an optimist about global warming: excellent weather in northern climates.

Idiot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>I caught Maher too.  Yeah, Sullivan&#8217;s tantrum was just weird.  Especially when he started arguing with Wes Clark and Clark was just looking at him like, what&#8217;s your problem?  You really want to argue about this now??</p>
	<p>Apparently Sullivan is also an optimist about global warming: excellent weather in northern climates.</p>
	<p>Idiot.
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		<title>by: deep6</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462602</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462602</guid>
					<description>Why are people looking at the McClurkin episode as a one-off?  Pam, I'm not sure if you heard, but at the Obama rally on Boston common last week he also didn't mention marriage equality or gay rights at all, and neither did our Democratic governor, Deval Patrick.  That the marriage equality win wasn't even addressed indirectly was a conspicuous sign that if Obama's not going to stand behind progressive values in &lt;i&gt;Massachusetts&lt;/i&gt; he's not going to do it anywhere.  And you'd better believe he won't have a workaround for Don't Ask, Don't Tell that's of any importance to his agenda.

Has anyone else here been to see him and also conspicuously missed any reference to gay rights?  I think we're starting to see a pattern here.

As for Edwards - I'd rather half a couple support marriage equality than neither member.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Why are people looking at the McClurkin episode as a one-off?  Pam, I&#8217;m not sure if you heard, but at the Obama rally on Boston common last week he also didn&#8217;t mention marriage equality or gay rights at all, and neither did our Democratic governor, Deval Patrick.  That the marriage equality win wasn&#8217;t even addressed indirectly was a conspicuous sign that if Obama&#8217;s not going to stand behind progressive values in <i>Massachusetts</i> he&#8217;s not going to do it anywhere.  And you&#8217;d better believe he won&#8217;t have a workaround for Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell that&#8217;s of any importance to his agenda.</p>
	<p>Has anyone else here been to see him and also conspicuously missed any reference to gay rights?  I think we&#8217;re starting to see a pattern here.</p>
	<p>As for Edwards - I&#8217;d rather half a couple support marriage equality than neither member.
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		<title>by: Swedgin</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462600</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462600</guid>
					<description>Anyone else watch Andrew Sullivan on Maher's show Friday night?

He made a big point about supporting Obama simply because Hillary is a political machine, triangulating her war/terra stance (specifically the Iran Revolutionary Guard resolution) to position herself as a moderate in the general election to gain the most votes.

Obama has decided that he will gain more christy-democrat votes than lose gay votes by endorsing homo-bigot clergymen.  Sullivan again sells out his brethren without conscience.  </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Anyone else watch Andrew Sullivan on Maher&#8217;s show Friday night?</p>
	<p>He made a big point about supporting Obama simply because Hillary is a political machine, triangulating her war/terra stance (specifically the Iran Revolutionary Guard resolution) to position herself as a moderate in the general election to gain the most votes.</p>
	<p>Obama has decided that he will gain more christy-democrat votes than lose gay votes by endorsing homo-bigot clergymen.  Sullivan again sells out his brethren without conscience.
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		<title>by: Hector B.</title>
		<link>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462591</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/10/29/mcclurkin-hangs-tough-at-obama-concert/#comment-462591</guid>
					<description>Obama hired the McClurkin who &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week836/profile.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; has sung for millions, whose three solo albums have topped the Billboard charts and Gospel and secular R&amp;amp;B play lists, who won a Grammy in 2003 for his CD, AGAIN, who wrote Oprah Winfrey's favorite song, his hit single, &quot;Stand.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;

Obama did not hire the self-hating pedophile victim who blames his gayness on being raped as a youth, whose faith tells him his homosexuality is a &quot;curse.&quot; To resolve his cognitive dissonance McClurkin irrationally but understandably claims to be &quot;cured&quot; of being homosexual. We all know this is impossible, so McClurkin deserves our tolerance and understanding, not our hatred. 

Further, Obama's message is clear: he's not a homophobe, because he requested a gay pastor from his own church to open the shows. Further, Obama is not [literally] embracing homophobia because he did not hug McClurkin; he did not shake his hand, etc. because he did not appear on stage. 

Finally, once you rub out your bus tread marks, please don't vote for either the homophobic-pastor-courting Hillary, or the but-my-wife-supports-gay-marriage having it both ways Edwards. I urge you to vote only for a true supporter of full equality for gays.



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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Obama hired the McClurkin who <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week836/profile.html" rel="nofollow"> has sung for millions, whose three solo albums have topped the Billboard charts and Gospel and secular R&amp;B play lists, who won a Grammy in 2003 for his CD, AGAIN, who wrote Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s favorite song, his hit single, &#8220;Stand.&#8221;</a></p>
	<p>Obama did not hire the self-hating pedophile victim who blames his gayness on being raped as a youth, whose faith tells him his homosexuality is a &#8220;curse.&#8221; To resolve his cognitive dissonance McClurkin irrationally but understandably claims to be &#8220;cured&#8221; of being homosexual. We all know this is impossible, so McClurkin deserves our tolerance and understanding, not our hatred. </p>
	<p>Further, Obama&#8217;s message is clear: he&#8217;s not a homophobe, because he requested a gay pastor from his own church to open the shows. Further, Obama is not [literally] embracing homophobia because he did not hug McClurkin; he did not shake his hand, etc. because he did not appear on stage. </p>
	<p>Finally, once you rub out your bus tread marks, please don&#8217;t vote for either the homophobic-pastor-courting Hillary, or the but-my-wife-supports-gay-marriage having it both ways Edwards. I urge you to vote only for a true supporter of full equality for gays.
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