For those who say, he's only been in office for six months, and he has to prioritize, why did he prioritize defending DOMA with Bush personnel? He could have pushed that on the backburner.

I was wondering what was going to happen as we get to re-election "I know you're disappointed but I'm sure you'll like what I do by the end of my second term."

Finally, it's ludicrous to suggest the reason he's not exerting executive privilege is a concern for the historic balance of power between the arms of goverment.He doesn't seem to want to give back the Bush arbitrary arrests powers or have the courts decide the Gitmo prisoner disposition.

Next year will have elections in the house. Then the presidential election cycle begins again. So this is the year for action. ENDA passage and DADT & DOMA repeal have to happen now, or they won't happen until after the next election. Or never, which I'm sure the Democratic party would prefer - that way they keep the gays on the bridle through eternal election cycles.

(at the risk of feeding the trolls...) if you can't even spell "hors d'oeuvres," for the love of Pete, refrain from lecturing us about "homosexual's problems."

You are right, a lecture is not in order. PARTY ON! A "cure" is just around the corner.

Isn't that a little like saying, "Get Aids and die?" Millions got Aids and died because of your type of encouragement of deadly behavior. Because of your attitude, millions of homosexuals have died an early death. How caring! You are like Michael Jackson's enablers. PARTY ON! You either own stock in a pharmaceutical company, or you own an advertising agency, a television station, or network, or you are simply deluded.

You need to read my article: "Are you deluded?"

At some point, he'll get terse with the gay community, is my sense. America will have no problem with the gay community gradually being set up as bothersome, noisy, needy--alien, by this president. In Obama, they elected in a president who seems to share the same discomfort with gay people, that Colbert and Stewart convey.

The rhetoric will translate into action once Obama determines that he needs the gay vote more than he needs the votes of those against the gay agenda. So it will be a calculated "when" that may never arrive.

--"homosexual's problems."

Well maybe he was just talking about one gay person. At least he didn't say, like so many thousands if not millions of internet posters:

"Your an idiot!"

Oh--well I know that "you're an idiot," short for "you are an idiot," would be a heavy insult, but "your" means "belonging to you. "My an idiot?" What does "your an idiot" mean?? Does it mean "the idiot belonging to you!"?? That would seem to indicate that, if there are only two people speaking to one another, then the person speaking is the idiot. Hm.

Sorry, everybody. I'm back. But I have to say, finally: "Obama 'woos' LGBT leaders?" (Snicker) Is there something we don't know? :D Okay, I'll stop. But hecka choica headline.

What is the murder and assault rate against gays, compared to the rest of the population?

So we're not deserving of equal rights because not enough of us have been killed yet by kooks and gay bashers?

Please don't stop taking your medications.

The USA is behind the times in this gay military thing. Most of the allies of the USA in its fight against terror allow gays to have equal rights with straight military. Worse the USA is willing to compromise the safety of its own and other countries' soldiers by not having the best people for the job. Dismissing Arabic speaking service people because they are gay is an example of this. How many Arabic speaking people does the USA have in its army? Not many judging from what we saw on the news with soldiers yelling at Iraqis in American-accented English, "Get out of the car."

The US military is more like the Iranian army than any in the west with its DADT. Come on join us in the West.

Sean Collins

Australia

I'll never do it again, I give you my word!

President Obama is the most progressive leader the US has probably ever had. We need to let him move forward with his agenda and not be so fickle. He will get there.

We shall see. Looks like mere damage control to me. Words, words, words, just words. The spin-doctors are working overtime. The LGBT community better wake up because the wool is being pulled over your eyes, your lack of legal education is being exploited. You are being fed Madison Avenue propaganda. A really smooth hustle. See salon:

"The Big Chill: Why Obama Must Defend DOMA as He Works For Repeal"

and

"Obama, DOMA, Treachery, Betrayal and Invidious Gay Jim Crow Laws. "

Read and come away being able to think for yourself instead of being spoon fed propaganda designed to manufacture your consent.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ....

The useful idiots are taking the bait again! More of the old HOPE & CHANGE song and dance...

What is so funny is homosexuals actually think a muslim is going to help them. In Iran they hang them.

YOU WON'T READ THIS IN THE STATE-RUN MEDIA:

June 28, 2009

Media nervous on new Duke U. rape case (updated)

Thomas Lifson, American Thinker Blog

A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage.

Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account.

Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't:

Frank Lombard is the associate director of Duke's Center for Health Policy. The university administrator was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old son for sex. I tried to contact Frank Lombard over the weekend to probe his expertise regarding the health benefits of raping small children. So far, he's declined to comment.

University administrator Lombard is accused of logging on to a chat room online and describing himself as a "perv dad for fun." The detective who wisely looked into the suspicious screen name says that Lombard admitted to molesting his own adopted son. All this was before allegedly inviting a stranger to travel to North Carolina from another state to statutorily rape his already-molested adopted son.

It gets worse. The allegations are stunning and sickening. Adams spares us what he says is the worst.

However, identity politics are probably also involved in understanding the media response. Again, Adams:

The Associate Press (AP) did not mention the fact that the five-year old offered up for molestation was black. Bringing that fact to light might be damaging to the political coalition that exists between blacks and gays. Nor did the AP mention that the adopted child is being raised by a homosexual couple. Bringing that fact to light might harm the gay adoption movement.

I am afraid that as far as the media and academic communities are involved, it is not the crime itself that matters, but rather whether the alleged perp is a member of an "oppressor" group. Although white, Lombard is gay, so in the interest of avoiding unpleasant stories involving homosexual adoption, the media is anxious to shut down public interest in the affair.

However, the outspokenness and willingness to judge in advance a case involving white jocks - easy targets - of Duke and media, inevitably place a spotlight on their handling of another Duke rape allegation.

Update: Thomas Lifson notes that Stanley B. Chambers of the Raleigh News and Observer (hat tip: C. Edmund Wright) brings is the following nugget:

Lombard, a licensed clinical social worker with a master's degree in social work, is a health-disparities researcher who studies HIV/AIDS in the rural South.

This means that Lombard toiled in fields of the victimology industry, mining data for correlations that would underwrite government favoritism of victim groups.

A victimologist victimized at least one child in the most heinous way. The ultimate victim(s). And the media see no hypocrisy, and want to make sure the public doesn't either. Nothing to see here, move along.

All this coming in the wake of another highly publicized incident at the same prominent university? I don't think they can suppress this one. The conservative media have the power to put this case on the national agenda. It is too dramatic.