My daughter tends to like to play it cool, so it is unusual to see her so uninhibited in her enthusiasm.
She said that her gay friends are equally energized and that many of them are volunteering to help with the Obama reelection campaign in response to his historic support of equal rights.
I asked her what it means to her, and she replied that it means that not only does her daddy love and support her just the way she is, but for the first time in history so does the President of the Untied States.
I have to admit that kind of choked me up.
By the way, you can ignore the people on the Right who are saying that Obama is going to lose some of his support from the Black community over this. The facts are that the African American community is ALL IN for Obama, and are now beginning to follow his lead in accepting gay marriage as well.
So let's take some political inventory shall we?
Right now the President is polling 5at 4% among women to Romney's 34% (And we know that will only go up for the President as we get nearer the election), Blacks support the President 90% to Romney's pathetic 5%, 42% of Independents also favor Obama while only 30% like Romney, and of course the gay vote is now solidly in Obama's corner.
The only place that Romney out performs Obama is with the white male vote, and even that is even higher among white males who did NOT finish college.
In other words Romney has the ignorant Caucasian heterosexual man vote all sewn up. Color me unsurprised.
This is beginning to look like a very interesting election indeed.
Now if you will excuse me I have a t-shirt to buy.
Apparently Gino dumped Bristol while filming their reality show! Ouch. Bristol posted this on her facebook page yesterday
ReplyDeleteWell, hades, expect Bristol´s weight to skyrocket now that her Meth pipeline is gone.
DeleteSeriously? She blew another show? Maybe this time LIfetime will quit trying to make stars out of these hillbillies...but I bet she still applies for a tax crdit..thanks, Mommy Dearest.
Deletelink pls.
DeleteBristol Palin gets e-kicking over gay marriage comments
DeleteTHE TWITTERSPHERE has rounded on Bristol Palin, daughter of gun-toting science-denier Sarah Palin, for condemning US president Barack Obama’s stance on gay marriage. She allowed the world to see into the shallowest recesses of her mind with a brain-dump on her blog, her ill-informed comments so reminiscent of her mother’s that fears are growing that Palin Jr too may be planning a career in politics.
http://www.minute15.com/?p=10763
Ah, how time flies and dreams crash...
DeleteBristol Palin Has A New Man & Wants Another Baby In 2011!
While most people’s New Year’s resolutions usually include shedding a few pounds or quitting smoking, Bristol Palin reportedly has an entirely different plan for 2011–you think she’d feel burned but she apparently wants another baby with her new boyfriend, asap!
http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2010/12/21/bristol-new-man-new-baby/
Pimp Daddy Tawd must have stopped sending Gino $$$ to screw his daughter.
DeleteWhere on bristols FB page does she repot that Gino left her
DeleteWe need a link, or something written ny BRANCEY
Gotta link?
DeleteSo where the hell is the link??
DeleteFellow Businessmen Prefer Obama Over Romney On the Economy
ReplyDeleteIn a recent article by Bloomberg, “Global investors increasingly prefer President Barack Obama to Republican challenger Mitt Romney and most say they believe the incumbent will remain in the White House for another four years.”
President Obama crushed Romney, 49% to 38% in this quarter’s global investor poll. Within the same margin 49-38%, global investors believe more in Obama’s vision for the U.S.economy also.
In a quote, Obama “managed the U.S. economy pretty well, solving a lot of imbalances created by the previous administration,” says poll respondent Mario Di Marcantonio, 35, a senior portfolio manager at Eurizon Capital in Milan.
“I believe the second Obama term will be better than having a U-turn with Romney,” he says. “More stability will mean more visibility and more investment in the future.”
Now the Republicans consistently talk about stability and confidence, yet their candidate doesn’t bring that to the table in the global marketplace.
47% of respondents give President Obama credit for the improving economy, despite Republicans saying the economy improved despite the President.
Finally, Global investors also see another Obama term as favorable to U.S. markets, with 48 percent saying the president’s re-election would be a “good thing” for domestic markets compared with 36 percent who predict it would be detrimental.
There are obvious issues these investors have with President Obama, but nonetheless, they feel that this President has done well in his handling of the economic crisis and the U.S. economy as a whole, no matter what the right wing pundits say. These are numbers people; they don’t pay attention to the political rhetoric coming from either party.
Bottom line, this should throw out the “Obama is bad for business” mantra, but it won’t change the mind of the Republican base.
http://www.politicususa.com/bloomberg-global-investors-favor-obama-romney-improving-future-economy.html
Obama Winning Investors by 49%-38% Against Romney in Poll
“I believe the second Obama term will be better than having a U-turn with Romney,” he says. “More stability will mean more visibility and more investment in the future.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-11/obama-winning-investors-by-49-38-against-romney-in-poll.html
Fun fact: a quarter of the LGBT vote went to Bush in 2000...in FL that works out to several thousand votes...if Obama can get that number down to 15 percent and up the number of gay people who show up to the polls to five to seven percent -- only 4 percent of voters identify as LGBT -- he should win every single swing state, easily.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't think that gay marriage is the kind of thing that will make people change their mind and vote for Romney...it might swing some MALE independent voters...but...independent voters are unreliable in that you can't count on them to show up and they seem to change their mind every three seconds. And, anyway, independent voters tend to break towards the person who's winning. And who do you think THAT'S going to be????
Here's a hint -- his name rhymes with Flobama...
NOBODY
Deletelikes to vote
for a
LOSER,
Romney...
John Dean (@JohnWDean) Tweeted, "Sorry, But I Don't Believe Rasmussen's Automated Polling: Romney Takes Eight Point Lead over Obama http://shar.es/2IE7F via @sharethis"
ReplyDeleteThe link leads to a Breitbart.com article written and posted today by the wingnut heir to AB, John Nolte, titled "TIME TO PANIC?: ROMNEY TAKES EIGHT POINT LEAD OVER OBAMA" with a leading sentence, "Yesterday, Rasmussen had Governor Romney up 7 points over Obama, 50-43. Today, the poll's rolling three-day average has increased Romney's lead to 8, 50-42."
The poll was conducted by Scott Rasmussen, who's acknowledged to lean right.
Nolte notes at the end of the short article, "Finally, it's important to note that if Rasmussen's results look like an outlier, that's because the respected pollster only polls likely voters. By comparison, other pollsters, like Gallup, poll registered voters. Sometime after Labor Day, though, when election day is closer, most everyone will move to likely voters because that's the more accurate way to judge the outcome of the election.
--------------
Oh, puh-leeze! Nolte's neocon compatriots are doing everything they can to eliminate as many "likely voters" they can in GOP-run states that have enacted new restrictive voter registration laws. The only thing that's going to change that is if the DoJ sues every state claiming the unconstitutionality of the law and it's not in effect for November.
And if there IS a difference between "likely voters" and "registered voters", the latter number will probably increase because of the Dem grassroots efforts between now and November to get folks re-registered whose previously unquestioned rights are in jeopardy.
The only people reporting that poll were on Fox..who'd have guessed. The rest of the media knew it was meaningless.
DeleteAutomated polls are untrustworthy. Who the hell stays on the line when they get an automated voice? Dumb people, that's who. I'm surprised it's this close...
DeleteMr. Knishes got a poll by email the other day that he suspected was from our pals on the Right. So for shits and giggles, he decided to reply--each time he varied from the usual robotic Rethuglican script, the poll would NOT accept his answer, and send him back to the same question (until, I guess, he got it "correct." Bad boy! Bad!) I'd bet that the "poll" results we'll be seeing in the coming months will be based on hijinx like this. We'll just have to duck the elephant shit flying over the fence from the other side.
DeleteWe're finally moving forward as a country I think--gut feeling. And I couldn't be happier!! LOVE the shirt and poster, BTW! Off to check 'em out...
As soon as the connection seems automated, I hang up. Usually the calls come when I'm in the middle of fixing or eating dinner. And that really annoys me. Besides, if someone wants to know my opinion on an issue, then a real person should call or come to my front door. I just love to tell Republicans that I wouldn't vote for a Republican for any remotely possible reason.
Deletewhat a joke.
Deleteplease.
"In other words Romney has the ignorant Caucasian heterosexual man vote all sewn up."
ReplyDeleteAs well as the ones who post such as this on the Craigslist in the M4M Casual Encounters section:
"Straight masc dude looking for a masc TOP - m4m - 24 (Uptown/ downtown )
Date: 2012-05-12, 7:04AM .DT
Reply to: [redacted]
Looking for masc tops , I'm straight bottom that likes to play wih masculine dudes on the DL, I have a great ass and I know how to take it! YOUR PICS GETS MINE."
So "straight". Such hypocrites.
On page 173 of the course catalog for Liberty University, the country's largest Evangelical Christian college, there's a graduate course labeled Theology 678—Western and New Religions.
ReplyDeleteIts innocuous title belies the description of its curriculum:
"The history, doctrines, and present state of the major cults such as Mormonism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventism. The course will also include a study of the Occult Movement. Emphasis is placed on the errors of these groups and on methods and materials for confronting them effectively."
The course is just one reminder that when Mitt Romney takes the stand on Saturday to deliver the commencement speech at Liberty U, he will be addressing more than 2,000 evangelical students who have been taught that his Mormon faith is a cult that must be defeated.
But that doesn't mean they won't vote for him. As the Republican Party sits poised, for the first time in modern history, to nominate a presidential candidate who's not a protestant Christian, conservative Evangelicals across campus — and, indeed, across the country — are struggling to reconcile their theology with their politics. Can they really support a heretic for president?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/cultist-for-president
You know, even if they decided that a Mormon is a Christian, can they support a man whose beliefs cahnge with the wind? I just hope Romney doesn't get so whacked out that they deny him the nomination in Tampa....'cause we all know even more dangerous people are waiting in the wings with their fangs bared.
DeleteMormons are NOT Christian. Right down to their magic underwear.
DeleteHistorically, only until recently have Mormons wanted to be called Christians, preferring not to be included with Christian denominations which Joseph Smith said were, ". . .all wrong...all their creeds were an abomination in his sight, and that those professors (Christians) were all corrupt." (Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith, 2:18-19)
DeleteIn the past Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) have preferred to be called "saints." However, in the recent years the LDS church has spend millions in an intense public relations campaign aimed at moving their church into the mainstream of Christianity.
The political and economic benefits of Mormons being included in the mainstream of Christianity are obvious. Further, for Mormons to be accepted as traditional Christians would greatly aid in their proselyting the members of Christian denominations into the LDS church.
This is why the LDS church is trying so hard to present themselves as Christians and trying to overcome the stigma of being a cult.
Hopefully, this article will help the both Mormons and non-Mormons to see that Mormonism worships a different god and Jesus Christ and not the God and Jesus Christ of the Bible. The Constitution of the United States gives every citizen the right of freedom of religion and the LDS people have the right to believe as they desire.
However, biblical Christians also have the right to defend their historic faith as revealed in the Bible and expose those who misuse their historic name.
http://bible-truth.org/arelds.htm
Attractive beliefs notwithstanding and whether they do good stuff or not, "Mormon" is a cult, plain and simple. A successful, long-lived enduring scam.
DeleteIt isn't yet another "version" of Christianity. Far from it. They don't worship Jesus; they worship the angel Moroni, self-identified human "Prophets," and special rocks that placed inside a hat, provide visions to special people.
Like the Emperor's New Clothes, the Prophet can't say he _doesn't_ see a vision from the rock, can he?
It got started when a bunch of people started following one particular guy, Joseph Smith.
He was a classic cult figure - in a position of authority over others, charismatic, punishing, demanding loyalty at any cost, narcissistic, selfish and supremely arrogant.
He gave the appearance of righteousness and "special" knowledge and power.
Smith was born in Vermont in 1805 to tenant farmers. The family moved to Palmyra, New York, for work. The Eerie Canal was under construction.
His mother had magical ideas about God. From his father, he was into the occult, black magic, crystal-gazing, divining stuff, and seer-craft.
Smith was a consummate natural confidence man man. He was a "money digger" and professional scryer. In the first part of adult life, he was paid to find buried treasure.
In 1823, the angel Moroni visited him late at night and the rest is history.
Moroni told him where to find a buried box containing magic documents with text printed on golden plates in a long-dead language described as "reformed Egyptian."
He also received from the angel, a pair of magic glasses which allow the wearer to comprehend the exotic hieroglyphics.
Of course, everything went missing. But he magically got the text back, except not the magic glasses.
But not to worry, because he had special powers. He'd place a magic rock in an upturned hat, bury his face in it, and dictate the lines of scripture that appeared to him. That was "The Book of Mormon."
In 1830, Joseph Smith incorporated the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Not kidding. This is the history of Mormons.
Before voting for a Mormon, read Krakauer's "Under the Banner of Heaven."
I suppose Romney's relying on the Osmond Family vote? I heard a little of his "speech" today on MHP, he seemed to dodge the whole "Mormon" issue at Liberty U commencement ceremonies.
DeleteMy straight white male husband is a lifelong Democrat who is definitely voting for Obama again.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead, GOP, keep up your anti-gay bigotry -- keep it up!
Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse on Gay Issues
Without being too nosy, white college educated males are breaking for Mr. Obama. Of course a minority of High School educated white males are also Democrats.
DeleteMine too.
DeleteBeaglemom
/Whereas kids of yesterday were seen as "queer" and "different" (per Romney and his ilk),
Deletekids today see gay kids across the lunch table, and sitting in the passenger seat of their cars on the way to lunch.
It. Doesn't. Matter. To. Our. Youth.
They have not been swayed by the RIDICULOUS arguments that children can be TAUGHT to be GAY.
They know perfectly well who they like early on, and it had NOTHING to do with outside influence.
I hope this does send the GOP into extinction.
They deserve it.
You know what's funny?
Delete_WE_ are the "kids of yesterday." _I_ am. I'm a child of the 60s/70s. That's _ME_ and _YOU_.
Did you not know about gay/lesbian? I did. I had more friends that were openly gay in 1977, than I do _now_!
Being "bisexual" was vogue and popular in the era of Blondie and The Beegees. Saturday Night Fever. Come on folks, you were there.
What happened to cause everyone to get so intolerant and pretentious?
Obama Gay Marriage Support Forces GOP to Evolve or Die
ReplyDeleteIn the wake of Obama’s historic support for gay marriage and Mitt Romney’s Cranbrook bullying of a gay student, public opinion researcher and Bush’s 2004 pollster Jan van Lohuizen issued a warning to Republicans – change your stance on gay marriage or become irrelevant.
Citing poll numbers, van Lohuizen makes the case for why Republicans need to change their position on gay marriage and they need to do it yesterday. See, it’s not just Democrats and young people who support equal rights for gay couples anymore. Support among Republicans is on the rise.
Politico reported (read the full memo on Politico):
"an accelerated rate with no sign of slowing down."
3. Polling conducted among Republicans show that majorities of Republicans and Republican leaning voters support extending basic legal protections to gays and lesbians. These include majority Republican support for:
a. Protecting gays and lesbians against being fired for reasons of sexual orientation
b. Protections against bullying and harassment
c. Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
d. Right to visit partners in hospitals
e. Protecting partners against loss of home in case of severe medical emergencies or death
f. Legal protection in some form for gay couples whether it be same sex marriage or domestic partnership (only 29% of Republicans oppose legal recognition in any form).
...Republicans have used the social issues to catapult them into a semblance of relevance since they can’t get there on their failed policies alone — and now it’s time to pivot. In other words, thanks Republican Jesus, but they’re all done with you now. Please go away.
I doubt Republicans are going to be able to sell van Lohuizen’s talking points to the fundamentalists. Instead of admitting their pivot, Republicans will pull a Romney with the public by just refusing to discuss this issue anymore. Get ready for more condescending, smug talking points that the general economy is all they want to talk about (but never the actual result of their economic policies; see Wisconsin) as Republicans hide from their past and their Tea Party base.
Republicans can’t afford to alienate their base on this issue but they can’t win elections if they keep attacking gay rights. If the base catches on to the GOP dropping the gay ball, a Republican Party civil war may be on the horizon.
http://www.politicususa.com/irrelephants-gop-warned-change-position-gay-marriage.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/bush-pollster-change-in-attitudes-on-gay-marriage-123235.html
(I read the article; its interesting.) But why should the Republicans think they can't keep winning without the gays when they think they can make it by bashing women?
DeleteI LOVE that article/e-mail!
DeleteElizabeth,
You are correct.
Hopefully this will be the tipping point, and the GOP will finally go the way of the dinosaur.
Obama's gay-marriage endorsement is a moral and political win
ReplyDeletePundits are eager to pontificate on how supporting same-sex marriage will cost Obama in November. They couldn't be more wrong
http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/227887/obamas-gay-marriage-endorsement-is-a-moral-and-political-win/1
Romney has the white cracker vote or odes he? Sorry, no Baptist I know will ever vote for a Mormon, they'll vote for the black guy over a magic panty wearer
ReplyDeleteThey may have tens of millions of dollars,
Deletebut they don't have tens of millions of votes.
Mrs. Screechalot can be heard briefly here:
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin at the SALT Conference May 11, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQV7TFS6234&feature=youtu.be
The scan of the audience showed that many seats were empty. I guess she ain't all that exciting anymore.
DeleteThey are now saying too that President Obama is not respected in Europe!!! But, I have friends in a couple of the countries and from what the tell me he is well thought of and they think the Republicans in the U.S. a total disaster the way they keep trying to obstruct!
ReplyDeleteI sincerely believe President Obama will be reelected. I want to see the Republicans knocked out of the U.S. Congress in November - especially in the House w/that asshole, boozer Boehner!
All of our European friends (France, Germany and Denmark) really like President Obama.
DeleteWho is "they"?
DeleteAnd, since I think they are morons anyway...
Fuck "them".
They're so wrong, it's laughable.
Gryphen, I love when you share tidbits of your life with your daughter, it really is great to have that 'pulse' on the youth out there and you sharing with us helps us to be aware of that as well. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteDon't crow over the polls. Remember the Republicans cheat. They cheated in 2002 and 2006.
ReplyDeleteFluff and popularity are nice but can the Dims grow that "still" spine they will need in every local, county, state, and federal election just 6 months away?
If they don't this country may well be doomed.
I'm afraid you're right. Like Scott Walker's "divide and conquer," they're just wearing the average person down into sheer complacency. Very few fight back and that's what they're counting on.
DeleteThat ANY Palin gets press shows just how far we've sunk.
Our President isn't "fluff", bitch.
DeleteJesse, Tell your daughter that there are lots and lots of us "straight" folks who are absolutely delighted too. Years ago, my husband and I stood on a corner of a very conservative town collecting signatures for an initiative allowing full rights for LBGT folk in the workplace. Now we have to make the President's statement real in every state and town. Washington will vote FOR retaining our gay marriage law with all of us working for it.
ReplyDelete“Jesus’ Gay Marriage sing-a-long”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gPTeCZ_gpDo
“Screw Thou!”
hahahahahahahahahaha
h/t Democratic Underground
If the GOP takes this election, they'll have to steal it like they did in 2004, 'nuff said.
ReplyDeletemargaret and helen have a new post up!
ReplyDeleteGryphen,
ReplyDeleteWhile I applaud President Obama's public support for gay marriage, he is STILL not exactly out in front leading the charge for full GLBT equality. He still thinks the matter should be left up to individual states. THAT is wholly unacceptable.
I would bet my reproductive organs that there are still states in the old South where the Civil Rights Act would not pass today if it were put to a referendum. Putting GLBT rights to a vote in Homophobavania makes no more sense. Civil rights for ANYBODY cannot EVER be subjected to the ballot. THAT is a slippery slope that leads to tyranny and no rights for anyone outside the majority.
The President has come a long way, but he ain't quite there yet.
Wait until he wins Re-Election, Gas.
DeleteYou gonna see some SHIT then!
O, Boy!!
;)
Maggie, you got that right. Even his "open mic" situation with Medvedev belies the fact that after President Obama's win in '12 the kid gloves will come off. I. Cannot. Wait!!
DeleteMaggie & Smirnonn,
DeleteI've gotta' call a giant BULLSHIT on both of you. EVERYTHING about President Obama's record in the Illinois Senate, in the U.S. Senate, and as president indicates that he is a barely left of center moderate. He's not going to suddenly become überliberal. Nothing would please me more than if he did suddenly become a REAL socialist, but it ain't gonna' happen.
President Obama will go through his second term about the same way he did his first - rather timidly letting the Dems in the House and the Senate do most of the heavy lifting. Don't get me wrong, I think he is capable of totally owning the GOP, however, he doesn't seem to be willing to get all up in their business often enough for me.
I'll be the happiest guy in the country if the president suddenly becomes Ted Kennedy or Noam Chomsky, but I just don't see it happening.
Sorry to whizz on your BBQ. No offense intended.
How about "I'm Out for God"? That'd be great!
ReplyDeleteWell, *that*
Deletedoesn't make sense.
But thanks for playing...
:?
I think menopause is hitting screech hard. She no longer wears heavy suit tops when she speaks but now wears those silk shirts Red before and now blue at the salt conf
ReplyDeleteIf she was in menopause,
Deleteshe would be sweating like crazy through silk.
Not quite yet.
What are you talking about? Maybe you sweat in menopause but I sure didn't and none of my friends did either.
DeleteMy straight white male college-educated husband campaigned for Obama last time and will do the same this time for the president's re-election. ROCK THE VOTE, Dems! Let the bully Romney drag his party downticket. Let's take the House. Let's take the Senate!
ReplyDeleteI honestly think most Repugs will just sit this out.
DeleteThey won't "actively" vote FOR Obama,
but they know in their hearts,
they CAN'T vote for Romney.
Gryphen, I share your and your daughter's elation regarding President Obama's newly evolved stance on gay rights. As does my entire family. I have a nephew and a niece that are both gay. We had a family dinner last night and the atmosphere in the house was absolutely electric with positivity! Over dinner my nephew, his boyfriend and my niece all shared what this means to them and their responses were very much in line with your daughter's. And, they all expressed hope. Hope that the future will be better for them and that they'll have an easier time just being themselves.
ReplyDeleteAll I could think is THAT is a perfect example of the hope and change that Obama campaigned on. This is a step towards the USA as it should be, the USA that I want to give to my children.
Let's rock the vote in November! Obama/Biden for 4 more!!!!!!!
Gryphen thank you for posting this. I just ordered a Women for Obama pack and the I'm Out for Obama shirt (it looks really cool)! It's an early Mother's Day Present for me from my 3 kid and my husband. If you use the code FORMOM, you get 15% off. Happy ordering and Happy Mother's Day!
ReplyDeleteObama/Biden 2012
Thanks for sharing, Uncle G. I'm glad your daughter is "fired up and ready to go.". Think there's a typo in STL stats. He beats Romney by more than 10 pta, I think.
ReplyDeleteMeant WFO (women) stats. Curse you auto correct and tiny keyboard!
ReplyDeleteI sent my nephew and his partner of eight years this link. They're enthused over President Obama's speech. To hear a sitting President take a stand on the right side of history while validating them as individuals with equal rights and liberties is, to quote Joe Biden "A big fucking deal".
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing a slice of your life in this post, and tell your daughter she's got lots of support from people who don't even know her.
I'm getting a few birthday gifts from that site.
Rough week for older uneducated white men: first the president comes out in favor of gay marriage and then Goober Pyle dies...
ReplyDelete