Was she truly ‘proud’ to speak to gays?
According to an Associated Press news item (“Hillary Clinton woos gay voters,” March 6), neither Hillary Clinton’s “campaign nor her Senate office made any announcement” that she would be making a keynote speech to the “nation’s leading gay rights group,” the Human Rights Campaign.
“Asked twice at a Monday campaign stop in Iowa why she did not publicize her speech to the group,” the report went on, “Clinton said: ‘You’ll have to ask my campaign.’”
And yet Clinton supposedly told the group, “I am proud to stand by your side.”
Where? In the closet?
Neither she nor her campaign nor her Senate office publicized her appearance. Why? Was she embarrassed? Was she concerned about how her reaching out to the gay community would affect her reaching out to Christians, Jews and Muslims who frown on homosexuality? Was she or they or someone hoping for a better offer on where to be that night?
She may have said that she was “proud” to appear before the gay-rights group, but everything else seems to indicate that she really was not-so-proud to be there or to be associated with them.
Robert E. Forman, Lakewood
I didn't know Barack Obama was coming to Denver. I just saw it on the news that night.
So now the new Gay Rule is to advertise and with much fanfare tell every living person that a candidate is coming to speak at a Gay Pride event held to further human rights of gay people.Well whoop-de-do !
Can't gay people just shut up and get over themselves.The world does not revolve around your sexual preferences.Geez!!
Posted by Sick of whiny gay people on March 19, 2007 07:22 AMAdmit you are gay or atheist and you will not be elected dog-catcher. Be content to know that Clinton, or any democrat, is not going to roast you as surely as the Bush and Coulters (GOP) will pursuant to the high value they place on their common sense (a collection bias and prejudice in the human brain). Thanks god I'm not an atheist: I am intelligent enought but not courages enough so I admit to being a deicide just like you in which I slay every god except mine. r22037yahoo
Posted by Richard Grimes on March 19, 2007 09:38 AMHillary is your typical pay both sides when convenient politician. It's goes with out saying she supports the homosexual agenda and will calculate when it serves her purpose when she will go and smooze with them. But as
"Sick of Whiny of you know what" said and also they are a very insecure needy group of people that need all the attention they can get. Thats why so many of them are in the intertainment business and especially Broadway. Love Me! Adore Me! Yuk!
Just look at their parades if you dare!
So, it's now out in the open. Hillary is a politician. Thanks for the heads up.
Posted by on March 19, 2007 10:19 AMTo Whiny: let me modify your comment:
Can't the religious right just shut up and get over themselves.The world does not revolve around people's sexual preferences.Geez!!
Posted by on March 19, 2007 10:21 AMHillary's attempts to remain neutral when asked point blank about gays in the military simply displays her loyalty for convenience. She's first and foremost a politician, and she has proven that she wants to garner as many supporters as possible. By actually showing she has a heartfelt opinion about something so controversial would undermine her desires for power.
It has nothing about the whinings of gay people, who for the most part want nothing more than nationally recognized equal rights. Instead, when it comes to legislating morality based on religion, the USA is more akin to theocracies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt and Vatican-dominated countries like Poland and Ireland, instead of progressive, literate, peaceful nations like those in northern Europe.
Posted by Judge Joe on March 19, 2007 10:22 AMJudge Joe
Yawn! and Boring!
To much information that has nothing to do with the original letter. As far as her heartfelt
opinions, Don't you have to have a heart first?
She's one of the most conniving, backstabbing, cunning dangerous politicians since Richard Nixon that was ever spawned in this country. Just ask Barrack Obama as he found out for himself.
Judge Joe's is a rarity in the letter's column. It shows an objectivity and reasoning which is sorely lacking. More common are the asinine remarks by 11:20 who should boot up his brain as well as his computer.
Posted by on March 19, 2007 11:51 AMGee! Good comeback 11:51AM.
Judge Joe has as much objectivity and reasoning as a speed bump or lets say as "You" do!
So tell me what part of my informative letter didn't you like? There is much more where that came from.
Would you like to hear?
Maybe Hilary was just glad that MAYBE she could address a group that Billy boy probably wouldn't be drooling over.
Posted by Rick on March 19, 2007 02:00 PMWhy should gays "shut up and get over themselves," as "Sick" suggests? Every time gay people want to do something "normal" (get married, join the Army, adopt a child that some heterosexual couple brought into the world and now can't be bothered with), people like "Sick" wet their pants, get all upset, and predict the end of the civilized world! The only parts of the Bible we hear about anymore are the allegedly anti-gay passages, presumably because there's nothing else important in there. Christian organizations like Focus On the Family (which would seem to be a misnomer: their primary focus is on Homosexuality, the demonization of) can't seem to shut up about gays, or get over them.
I guess that's what's meant by "gay power."
Posted by Hans Christian Brando on March 19, 2007 07:44 PMGay and normal should not be used in the same sentence.I think we should kill them all and let God sort them out. No I am not religious.Just doubt you can suck your way into heaven, if there is one.
Posted by Sick of whiny gay people on March 21, 2007 12:47 PM