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In response to the attack ad by the McCain campaign in which Obama is compared to celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, Ms. Hilton sent out this video. Clever girl!
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McCain’s recent interview in the New York Times gets into LGBT rights, adoption for same sex couples, and his perhaps unlikely Republican approach of not supporting a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He instead supports the rights of each respective state to decide its legality there:
Mr. McCain, who with his wife, Cindy, has an adopted daughter, said flatly that he opposed allowing gay couples to adopt. “I think that we’ve proven that both parents are important in the success of a family so, no, I don’t believe in gay adoption,” he said.
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Many social conservatives strenuously oppose California’s decision to allow same-sex marriage. But Mr. McCain, who also opposes same-sex marriage, has always said that the issue is up to the states, and in the interview he said he would stick to that position as president even if California chose to continue allowing gay marriage after putting the matter to a statewide vote in November. “I respect the right of the states to make those decisions,” he said.
McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is) - NYTimes.com
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Fred Barnes advises John McCain to make gay rights an issue in the election to divide America.
The Obama campaign released a video Sunday night that covers his stance on LGBT issues and rights.
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Not everyone was so enthused, however. Andrew Malcom at the LA Times speculated that it was too much of nothing, too late in the game:
“Exactly what Gore was waiting for in the past two weeks since Obama sewed up his party’s nomination is unclear. Maybe he just wanted to go to Michigan where his prize-winning environmental pitch is so very less welcome than other places that don’t make so many large cars.
Or maybe he was waiting until his endorsement meant absolutely nothing.”
Here’s an interesting op-ed from nytimes.com on how despite Hilary’s exit from the race, Obama still embodies some of the same gender ideas in the media:
The attacks are already under way, as is evident if one enters the words “Obama” and “effeminate” into a search engine. The effeminacy canard lurks in Mike Huckabee’s imaginings of Mr. Obama tripping off a chair and diving for the floor when confronted by a gunman, and in the words of Tucker Bounds, Mr. McCain’s campaign spokesman, who depicted Mr. Obama as “hysterical.”
News media blatherers and bloggers are taking up the theme. On MSNBC, Tucker Carlson called Mr. Obama “kind of a wuss”; Joe Scarborough, the morning TV talk show host, dubbed Mr. Obama’s bowling style “prissy” and declared, “Americans want their president, if it’s a man, to be a real man”; and Don Imus, the radio host, never one to be outdone in the sexual slur department, dubbed Mr. Obama a “sissy boy.”
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