Courtesy of TPM:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced her support for gay marriage on Monday in a Human Rights Campaign video.
"I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law," she says. "To deny the opportunity to any of our daughters and sons solely on the basis of who they are and who they love is to deny them the chance to live up to their God given potential."
For those of you who may have trouble understanding EXACTLY what Hillary is saying here, let me translate for you. What she is saying is, "I am running for President in 2016."
If ANYBODY is still in denial about that you must be a Right Winger, and the very thought has frightened you into a panic induced delusion.
Oh, and by the way, she already won too.
Update: It looks like this video has rattled the cages over at Fox News:
“Nice makeup, soft lighting, it looks like a campaign commercial,” Scott said, after showing clips from the video Clinton recorded for the Human Rights Campaign’s Americans for Marriage Equality initiative.
Goldberg took Scott’s assessment one step further, saying it looked to him like the “wedding scene from The Godfather, a little ominous looking.” He asked, “what private citizen comes out with this kind of highly-produced video unless they’re planning to run for office?” Goldberg called it a “weird choice” for her to deliver something that looked like a “campaign commercial” when “it’s not like she doesn’t have a Rolodex full of reporters that could ask her softball questions” that just happened to include the gay marriage issue.
Yep, comparing Hillary Clinton to the Godfather, nothing over reacting about that.
Fox Noise is all over it:
ReplyDeleteFox Contributor Hits Hillary Clinton’s Godfather-Esque, ‘Campaign’-Style Gay Marriage Announcement
Were there any secret, ulterior, political motives behind Hillary Clinton‘s gay marriage endorsement video yesterday? That’s the question that Fox News’ Jon Scott and his guest National Review columnist and Fox contributor Jonah Goldberg set out to answer Tuesday afternoon.
“Nice makeup, soft lighting, it looks like a campaign commercial,” Scott said, after showing clips from the video Clinton recorded for the Human Rights Campaign’s Americans for Marriage Equality initiative.
Goldberg took Scott’s assessment one step further, saying it looked to him like the “wedding scene from The Godfather, a little ominous looking.” He asked, “what private citizen comes out with this kind of highly-produced video unless they’re planning to run for office?” Goldberg called it a “weird choice” for her to deliver something that looked like a “campaign commercial” when “it’s not like she doesn’t have a Rolodex full of reporters that could ask her softball questions” that just happened to include the gay marriage issue.
Goldberg continued to question the political benefit of Clinton making a bold stand on gay marriage, noting that her ability to stay above politics during her time as secretary of state is precisely what has kept her so popular. “She hasn’t had to get down into the partisan muck the way a lot of cabinet officials have, the way a lot of prominent Democrats have.”
Both men agreed that Clinton was making a politically risky move by declaring her support for same-sex marriage as her “first shot out of the cannon,” pointing to a recent Fox News poll that shows an evenly split electorate on the issue. Scott referred to an even more recent Washington Post-ABC News poll on the issue that shows 58% of Americans in favor of gay marriage as an “outlier.”
Watch video below, via Fox News:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-contributor-hits-hillary-clintons-godfather-esque-campaign-style-gay-marriage-announcement/
Jiminy Crickets, they are so out of touch!
Delete"Both men agreed that Clinton was making a politically risky move..."
DeleteExcept that it isn't politically risky, you out-of-touch dinosaurs (rolls eyes).
With the GOP eating their own, Hillary will have them for lunch! Can't wait! Here's one of the wingnuts now:
ReplyDeleteMark Levin Tears Into ‘Loser’ GOP Leaders, Politicians: Party Will ‘Split, And There’s Going To Be Two Parties’
The “GOP civil war” is a phrase we’ve been hearing often, and Mark Levin offered his particularly dramatic take during Monday night’s broadcast when he weighed in on the RNC’s so-called autopsy report. Tearing into the report’s proposed change of course, Levin reminded his audience that America is a conservative country — but Republicans will continue to lose under current leadership.
Referring to the likes of Jeb Bush and Karl Rove, Levin recalled the trend of the Hispanic vote during elections since the 1980s. “The truth is, this community is the most reliable Democratic-voting bloc, other than blacks and Jews,” he asserted, adding that the Democratic Party doesn’t say they need to reach out to the middle class or white vote.
The Republican Party doesn’t push its agenda “because it doesn’t have an agenda — other than one that’s written by the left,” he argued.
“They don’t even know how to name a report,” Levin later remarked, referring to the term “autopsy.” Along those lines, he criticized RNC chair Reince Priebus specifically, questioning why he hasn’t been fired after Mitt Romney‘s loss. (Same goes for Rove.) “These losers are not going to save the Republican Party.”
If majority of Americans identify as conservative, as polling suggests, and President Obama still wasn’t defeated, there’s an issue. The “problem is your being outworked, you’re being outsmarted,” he continued. “The problem is you’re not standing on ‘conservative principles.’ You’re not believable.”
The times may have changed, but principles don’t change, Levin asserted, but modern politicians and the party’s leadership are incapable of articulating them. “The fact that the chairman of the Republican National Committee can’t do it and the speaker can’t do is a problem with the Republican Party and it’s leadership.”
“And damn it, if it’s not changed, if these people aren’t thrown out, we’re going to lose,” Levin charged. “And there’s going to be two parties.”
Listen below:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/mark-levin-tears-into-loser-gop-leaders-politicians-party-will-split-and-theres-going-to-be-two-parties/
I actually consider myself conservative. I am against war, I am for equality and the dignity of all people, I would never have an abortion, but I realize I am not God and it is a woman's decision, I believe in a well-funded public school system, I believe in religious freedom for all, I think any gun deemed 'military' belongs just there, I think kids have a right to attend school, without worrying about the gun in the teacher's desk, purse, or gunbelt, and I think taxes are needed to maintain a well-run society. I also think that subsidies for oikl-bloated CEOS are wrong, and that we should be subsidizing industries to get us off fossil fuels. So how come 'conservatives' call me liberal?
DeleteWell said, Sally in MI.
DeleteI think a lot of us would agree with you, Sally in MI. These used to be middle-of-the-road views that most people took for granted.
DeleteNow you're an extremist to think abortion is a private choice, that free public education is and has been the salvation of our country, that guns belong in the military, and that we all pay taxes because we all benefit from the things they provide.
Ethics Committee Investigating
ReplyDeleteThe House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it is forming a special panel to investigate whether Alaska Rep. Don Young failed to report gifts on his annual disclosure forms, misused campaign funds and lied to federal officials.
The allegations against Young, a Republican who has served in the House since 1973, focus on his expenses and travel costs for trips that were already the subject of an ethics investigation. The investigative subcommittee will look at whether he, or persons acting on his behalf, obtained or received improper gifts, misused official resources or campaign funds for personal use or failed to report gifts on required disclosure statements.
The committee said in a statement that it will investigate the allegations after a referral from the Department of Justice. The department had previously investigated allegations Young accepted gifts in exchange for political patronage.
Michael Anderson, a spokesman for Young, said Young would cooperate with the investigation.
“Congressman Young has cooperated with the committee and will continue to do so,” he said.
"She hasn’t had to get down into the partisan muck".... Well, now that just made me laugh. I guess they'll see that she gets some of their partisan muck on her. No sense wasting time.
ReplyDeleteShe looks good, rested and ready to go!
GODDAMN PUSSY DEMS! Can't seem to stand up to the Right Wing for shit! Just OUTRAGEOUS! WTF is all I can say and my heart goes out to the victims and families of the rampant gun violence that happens every single day and these WADS in Congress can't seem to get anything done!
ReplyDeleteSenate Dems Drop Assault Weapons Ban
A proposal by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to ban certain assault weapons and high-capacity magazines will be excluded from a Democratic-led gun reforms package expected to reach a full Senate vote in the coming weeks, Feinstein’s office tells TPM.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/assault-weapons-ban-sidelined-in-senate?ref=fpa
Many are registered as Independent, as I am. We vote the candidate, not the party, and right now there is no one that seems appealing for 2016.
DeleteRightwingers panties are all wadded up over this huge, all encompassing shift in America's views.
ReplyDelete'A BETRAYAL': Evangelical Leaders Slam GOP Shift On Gay Marriage
Social conservatives are generally horrified by Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman's endorsement of same-sex marriage today.
In an email to conservative leaders obtained by Business Insider, conservative Christian radio magnate Rich Bott called the Ohio Senator's gay marriage shift a "betrayal," and suggested that it was further proof that the GOP has abandoned its conservative principles.
"Another Republican establishment figure betrays the party platform and damages the 'brand'," Bott wrote. "Portman was an early Romney supporter and was reportedly on the short list for Romney’s VP selection. What’s wrong with this picture? Lack of good, clear religious/moral teaching for starters."
As Bott's email suggests, the same-sex marriage debate has deepened divisions within the GOP, reigniting old frictions between the conservative Republican base and the party's more moderate Establishment.
But there are indications that the influence of hardline religious conservatives is waning in the GOP, particularly on the marriage issue. While Portman is the only sitting Republican Senator to have endorsed same-sex marriage, other Republican leaders, including top 2016 contenders Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, have started to dodge the gay marriage question, passing it off as a states' rights issue.
And social conservatives aren't happy about that either.
From an email from American Family Association firebrand Bryan Fischer, on Paul's recent statements about gay marriage:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/portman-gay-marriage-republicans-conservatives-2013-3#ixzz2O13Je72a
Opponents of gay marriage are literally dying off. New Washpost poll shows 81 percent -- 81 percent -- of under 30s support gay marriage.
ReplyDeleteSenate Democrats Cave And Drop Assault Weapons Ban From Major Gun Legislation — For Now
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.businessinsider.com/politics#ixzz2O157buEe
The Right is terrified of Hillary. They know she's qualified to be POTUS, they know that her time has come and she'll have the support of the Democrats and most important, they know that the world is Ready For Hillary...
ReplyDeleteWell, Hillary will have her own 'Right Wing Conspiracy' to deal with if she runs and if she DOES run, they will drag out all the big political guns to massacre her character, starting with this underhanded plan:
ReplyDeleteThe Republican Party Wants Activists To Track Democrats' Every Move
“Well-funded conservative groups should seek to hire activists to track Democrat incumbents and candidates with video cameras constantly recording their every movement, utterance, and action,” the report states.
Added the report: “An allied group dedicated solely to research to establish a private archive and public website that does nothing but post inappropriate Democrat utterances and act as a clearinghouse for information on Democrats would serve as an effective vehicle for affecting the public issue debate.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/18/republicans-desire-new-outside-opposition-research-group-to-track-democrats/#ixzz2O15sgrUr
Ready for Hillary Chair Allida Black drafted an op-ed following the release of Hillary's video on LGBT rights and marriage equality.
ReplyDeleteThe op-ed follows - it's worth the read!
When my partner and I married last April, we invited Hillary Clinton to attend our small ceremony. Alas, we couldn't change our date and Hillary had to be across the globe. But when Judy and I got home that night, after saying goodbye to family, friends and toastmaster Kirsten Gillibrand, a letter from the Secretary awaited us. Even though she was two continents away, she wanted to make sure we knew how happy she was that we married after twenty-one years. “At long last,” her note began.
Yesterday the world got to see more of the woman I have known for more than two decades – the woman who is as loving as she is tough and wise.
Why I can say this so unequivocally? It’s not just her letter. It’s not just that I am a human rights historian and activist. It’s not just that I have seen her in action on the ground, watched her press human rights in international arenas, or that I work with people whose lives she changed in ways most Americans cannot imagine.
It’s not just the respect with which I have been treated, the welcoming hug she always gives Judy, or the support she has always given our love for one another. It’s not just the tenderness she displayed when she learned my mother was dying – and the comfort her call gave my frightened mom. She must have been a great mother, Hillary said to a dying woman she had never met, to raise such daughter and welcome the love she found.
It’s not just the respect and support she gave to LGBT people around the world and the support she gave LGBT couples who worked for our country at State and in embassies around the world – less than a month after she moved into her office at Foggy Bottom.
It’s that Hillary understands what universal human rights means. She understands that love is precious, that people need to feel worthy to build communities grounded in respect, that fear and prejudice slaughter dreams, and that without dreams, visions cannot take root and democracy fades.
This is the reason that I spent almost seventy weekends traveling to fourteen states for Hillary in 2007 and 2008. It is why I helped found and chair the Ready for Hillary PAC and why I will work as hard as I can to assemble a coalition that mirrors the breadth of her heart and the scope of her vision. It is why I want her to be President of the United States.
Hillary does not make declarations lightly. She is a private, thoughtful woman. But when she does speak out, she does not retreat. Ask those diplomats who heard her proclaim in Geneva that “gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” Ask women the world over how much she meant her declaration that “women’s rights are human rights.” Ask her staff how strong her commitment is. Ask friends who have needed her how she rearranged an overwhelming workload to offer stalwart support.
Hillary is not new to LGBT rights. She has been with us for a long, long time. Her declaration for marriage equality is just the latest example of her support.
Santa Fe leaders ask county clerks to honor same-sex marriage in New Mexico
ReplyDeletehttp://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_a9e2eedf-977d-5b8a-bc36-afcf35c31ee2.html
Every statement or appearance by somebody outside of the GOP is considered by them, campaigning.
ReplyDeleteThe flailing against equal rights is pathetic.
It's odd that they should complain about the lighting and set decorations of this statement having the tone of a campaign commercial when it's not. I always think that the lighting and sets that they use make them look like a news channel when they're not. It's funny that way.
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