More Sour Grapes From McCain

You would think that after Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama citing the negative tone of the GOP, that John McCain would lay off the sour grapes. And, you would be wrong.

Check out this hostile interview between McCain and Chris Wallace of Fox News. Yes, McCain is now on the offensive against Republican Party-loving Fox News.

McCain is defending the slanderous robo-calls that his campaign is using to attack Sen. Obama. How bad are these robo-calls? Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is asking McCain to stop running the calls in her state.

Show Your Hometown Pride

With little more than two weeks before election day, now is the time to pull out your little black book and contact everyone in it about Barack Obama.

This election is the most important in at least a generation and for LGBT Americans it is even more crucial. We have the chance to play deciding role in electing the most pro-LGBT president in history. And, the difference between Sen. Obama and John McCain could not be clearer.

Allowing McCain to be elected as president would four more years of the kind of anti-LGBT policies that we got from George Bush. Electing Sen. Obama has president opens up the definite chance for us to finally pass an inclusive ENDA and the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act, to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and to finally develop a national AIDS strategy.

No Way. No How. No McCain/Palin.

Cross-posted at LGBT for Obama

A couple of days ago I wrote that gays won’t let their friends vote McCain and with less than four weeks before election day that message has taken on an increased urgency. This post the second is a series that I am writing urging LGBT people to talk to our family, friends and co-workers about why a vote for John McCain is a vote for discrimination against LGBT Americans.

John McCain and Sarah Palin have unleash a wave of negative attacks in speeches and ads against Barack Obama and our fight to change our country for the better. They have, as a New York Times editorial stated, moved “into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia.”

What makes you think that if elected they will not turn that same mean-spiritedness and willingness to engage in divisive politics against us?

Gays Won’t Let Friends Vote McCain

Just as friends don’t let friends drive drunk, we should declare right here, right now that as LGBT people we won’t let our friends vote McCain. At least not without a fight.

If you think I am overstating the importance of this, watch this video by the Human Rights Campaign on McCain’s long record of opposition to LGBT equality.

I understand that voting is a personal thing, but it is critical that we let our friends, family and co-workers know how much a McCain/Palin administration would hurt us and our families.

McCain Strategy: Attack, Attack, Attack

Its lines like this that make me more than a little gay for Markos Moulitsas, founder of Daily Kos:

Many people will warn against “getting complacent”. I like to approach this potential problem differently — we have a chance to rip out the GOP’s jugular. We can throw them an anvil. We can kick them while they’re down. No matter the metaphor, the underlying meaning remains — we can destroy the Republicans. Now’s not the time to slack, it’s the time to pick things up. We’ve got them in a near rout. Let’s destroy them.

Sarah Palin: Out of Touch and Out of the Loop

She’s a spunky one that Sarah Palin. Unfortunately, not only is she out of touch with the issues facing most Americans, she is also out of the loop in decisions made by the McCain campaign.

Check out this clip from Fox News in which Palin shares her “yes we can” reaction to reading about the decision by McCain to pull out of Michigan.

On a side note, notice that the reporter mistakenly labels Palin as the Democratic VP candidate. As if.

h/t: TPM Election Central

Is Sarah Palin George Bush in Drag?

I don’t mean to offend drag queens when I ask that question, but look at this video from Progress Accountability and see for yourself.

Obama: McCain Wants to Run Healthcare Like They’ve Run Wall Street

Barack Obama unloads on John McCain about McCain’s inability to see that the fundamentals of our economy are not strong.

McCain is on record saying that he wants to run healthcare the same way they have run the bank industry. I guess when you own so many houses that you can’t remember exactly how many houses you own it is not such a big deal to gamble with working people’s money.

h/t: AmericaBlog

McCain Out of Touch on More Than Just LGBT Issues

Okay, we were told that there was no money to provide healthcare to poor kids, properly take of our soldiers who had their minds and bodies shattered in Iraq, fix our crumbling schools, repair our national infrastructure or rebuild New Orleans. But, now George Bush is requesting $700 billion to bail out the financial services industry that he, Dick Cheney, John McCain and the rest of the “of the rich, by the rich and for the rich” Republican Party has destroyed?

Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration on Friday laid out a radical bailout plan with a jawdropping price tag _ a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions.

And, now John McCain, who is still in some economic Never-Neverland thinking the “fundamentals of our economy are strong,” wants our healthcare system to be more like the banking system.

Seriously?

McCain Afraid

Cross-posted at LGBT for Obama

There may have been a time when John McCain could have been considered a “maverick,” but that time has clearly come and gone. McCain has hired Karl Rove’s henchmen to run what even the traditional media is calling one of the nastiest campaigns in recent memory.