Obama’s Divisive Strategy : Prez hopeful takes a page from the GOP’s racist playbook.

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Obama is the candidate of the same liberal elites who supported Howard Dean, ecstatic about the opportunity to challenge the old guard represented by Hillary Clinton. He’s promising to end the cynicism embodied by Clinton, the sort that “triangulates,” as he put it in a thinly veiled attack several weeks ago. He is also hungry, however, for black southern voters, many of whom are social conservatives on the subjects of homosexuality and the separation of church and state. So Obama decided to sign Donnie McClurkin, a Grammy-winning, African-American, “ex-gay” singer, onto his campaign as part of a Gospel tour of the important primary state of South Carolina.

McClurkin denies being homophobic (explaining away his views with the usual “Christian” apologetics, loving the sinner but hating the sin), yet his message about gay people is exceptionally egregious. He states that he was drawn into homosexuality by the rape and abuse he suffered as a child. Homosexuality, he says, is an affliction that its victims can overcome.


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WOULD ANY MAJOR presidential candidate associate with a black pastor who spoke of Jews or black people in the denigrating way that McClurkin talks about gays? It’s inconceivable. But gays are the one minority group that it’s still acceptable to ridicule, and Obama—despite his preachy talk of “hope”—is perpetuating this phenomenon. The Obama campaign’s continued advertising of its endorsement by McClurkin once again signifies that the Democrats are perfectly willing to use homophobia for their electoral advantage.

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During the 2004 presidential election, gay activists were rightly angry that President Bush and the GOP would use homosexuality as a wedge issue to whip up fear and win close elections across the country. Singling out a class of Americans as a basis for that fear—as Nixon did 1968—is reprehensible and destroyed Bush’s pledge to be a “uniter, not a divider.” For many years, the Human Rights Campaign and the Democratic presidential candidates have promised to offer us something different.
But the events of the past week have shown that even the most platitudinous of liberals is not immune from utilizing the cynical election tactics concocted by the right.

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[Clintonista2]

1. I'll put it simply:

If Hillary Clinton had done a "tour" with a man who said "I don't want to play with those who are trying to kill my children" in reference to African-Americans, her campaign would be over. Yet, Obama meets with a man who says "I don't want to play with those who are trying to kill my children" in reference to gays, and some on DU/The media doesn't think it's a big deal.


Says alot.

[NMMNG]

5. Very true

It's still fully acceptable to many throw LGBT people under the bus in the name of religion and/or political expediency. And sadly people don't get why we're so offended by it.

[ellacott]

2. I liked this part of the article

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The Clintons perfected the art of speaking out of both sides of their mouths on gay rights—passing the Defense of Marriage Act along with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” all the while scooping up massive amounts of campaign contributions from gay bigwigs—and it appears that Obama is learning from his party’s most skilled set of campaigners. So much for his arecent promise to part ways with the cynics who “tout their experience working the system in Washington.” Obama’s starting to “work the system” just fine himself.
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[NMMNG]

6. Yes

So much for the man who claimed he was going to bring change to the system, and who said that he was different from Bush and Clinton, eh?

[ellacott]

7. yep

No different than Clinton.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Howard Dean's support came from "liberal elites"?

Oy. That article lost me on the first sentence.

[CyberPieHole]

4. Although I am dissapointed that Clinton, and Biden failed to vote yesterday...

Obama failed to surprise. Furthermore, Obama's campaign of divide and conquer is not anything I could ever join. It is wrong to say or imply that "we are better" because "we" are of a younger generation than "they" are. It is also wrong to give a homophobe and a bigot a stage. McClurkin is the human equivalent of FLAMEBAIT: His sole desire is to stir up controversy. McClurkin thrives on it. His record sales must be up, as other homophobes join in the rapture of bigotry against the GLBT community. Clinton and Biden have left me disillusioned. But not enough to embrace the politics of hate.

[NMMNG]

9. Indeed

Obama is seeming more and more like GWB each day. He claims to be a uniter but he's throwing more and more people under the bus each week.

[CyberPieHole]

10. It will cost him in the end...

even if he did get the nomination he will have to come backt to the very same people he disrespected and ask for their support.

Check your mailbox.:hi:

[NMMNG]

12. The question is,

Will they be there for him?

[Scriptor Ignotus]

11. Obama = GWB = Hitler eom

[William769]

8. Well pigs do roll around in the mud together.

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13. And they get mighty dirty doing so