“Former vice president Dick Cheney said yesterday that he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.

‘I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone,’ Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. ‘I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish.’

Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said marriage has always been a state issue. — http://www.boston.com/news/

As a liberal I find Dick Cheney’s stand on most issues anathema, but I commend him for taking an enlightened view on same-sex marriage.

Cheney has an intelligent, attractive and very accomplished gay daughter, it makes it very difficult for him to accept the conservative view that homosexuals are degenerates. If evangelicals and conservative Republicans realized how many of their friends, family members, and co-workers were gay, they would be forced to admit that gays are just like everyone else — no better, no worse.

I disagree with Cheney that same-sex marriage should be a state issue. Having the freedom to marry the person that you love, regardless of gender, is such a basic and fundamental right, it should be protected by the Constitution. Didn’t we learn anything from history, when Southern states argued that slavery was a states rights issue?

Dick Cheney has taken a more enlightened view on same-sex marriage than the President of the United States. Obama is against same-sex marriage, he throws gays and lesbians the civil unions bone.

Why are human rights organizations giving Obama a free pass? Everyone who believes in human rights, and not just gays and lesbians should demand that the cowardly Obama come out in favor of same-sex marriage.

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Huffingtonpost: SAVANNAH, Ga. — Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.

“Now all of a sudden I’ve got someone who wasn’t a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for,” Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. “So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money.” — [ READ MORE ]

I caught this just before I went to bed.

Uncle Steele is getting more and more ridiculous by the day.

Malcolm X, in his “Message To The Grassroots” famously said: “This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He’ll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about ‘I’m the only Negro out here.‘ ‘I’m the only one on my job.‘ ‘I’m the only one in this school.’” [ READ MORE ]

Michael Steele is your quintessential House Negro — not a very smart one. Colin Powell knew how to weasel his way around the racist GOP Labyrinth, and so did Condoleezza, to a lesser extent.

Not Brother Mike. He is a DUMB Negro — just the way a southern white racist slave owner likes his Negro — A CLOWN!

Ever since he was elevated to chairman of the RNC (Republican National Committee), it seems like Uncle Mike is really desperate — clamoring to impress his ARMED CHRISTIAN MASTERS every opportunity he gets — at all costs, by any means necessary. Oh! Boy …I wish Malcolm were alive.

I wonder what he (Malcolm) would have said to brother Steele if he were still alive? Probably: “Mike, You’re nothing but a ‘Gut-Eating,’ ‘Limbaugh Butt-Licking‘ house Negro.”

Here is some wisdom from Malcolm X — Malcolm X, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. He has been described as one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history. [ READ MORE ]

Who Taught You To Hate Yourself?

Brother Steele Needs To WATCH Denzel’s depiction of Malcolm 100 Times

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Former DC Mayor and currently Councilman Marion Barry argues against gay marriage because he’s got the moral compass of God. LOL!

Barry earned a Masters of Science in organic chemistry from Fisk University in 1960.

On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with a former girlfriend, Hazel “Rasheeda” Moore, in a sting operation at the Vista Hotel by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine use and possession. The incident was widely broadcast on television, showing an enraged Barry excoriating Moore, who had become an FBI informant.

Barry was charged with three felony counts of perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine; however, in October 1990, he was convicted on only one charge: a single previous misdemeanor count of possessing cocaine which occurred during November 1989. He was acquitted on one possession charge and a mistrial was declared on the 12 remaining charges.

As a result of his arrest and the ensuing trial, Barry decided not to seek reelection as mayor. In the midst of his campaign for a city council seat, Barry was sentenced to a six-month federal prison term in October 1990.

My brother Barry — please stop mis-using the word MORALITY, you are beginning to sound like a REPUBLICAN!

White in America – The Children

Larry Wilmore proves to white kids that they’re not sentenced to a life of whiteness by getting Robin Thicke to sing for them.

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When a certified IDIOT like Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher becomes the main focus of your party — because he is quitting, then you are in deep trouble….

   Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher a.k.a ‘Joe The Plumber’ [ ENLARGE ]

Politico — Team of rivals: GOP base rips new group — Social conservatives are blasting the National Council for a New America, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s (R-Va.) nascent effort to rebrand the Republican Party, as a misguided and weak-kneed initiative that is out of touch with the GOP rank and file.

The council, unveiled last week by Cantor and Sen. John McCain, is designed to be a “forward-looking, grass-roots caucus” that formulates policy prescriptions and communicates with voters in a way that could expand the Republican ranks. In announcing the formation of the group, McCain said he hoped the group would attract moderates and “like-minded Democrats” to a series of public forums around the country.

But social conservatives couldn’t help but notice that the policy areas the group will focus on included no mention of same-sex marriage, immigration or abortion. And the roster of GOP luminaries who signed on to the effort was missing a few of the pols who are most popular with values voters.

“The moderates have been saying the same thing all these years, and now they’re just seeing a renewed opportunity to push their ideas,” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a leading opponent of gay marriage.

“It’s a losing proposition to try to divide social and economic conservatives,” Ken Blackwell, a one-time Ohio secretary of state and former candidate for Republican National Committee chairman, told POLITICO. “They will constantly find themselves backpedaling and apologizing and repositioning because the composition of that group does not reflect a basic reality, which is that social and economic conservatives complement one another.” [ READ MORE ]

Militia-Man Glenn “Cry-Baby” Beck on ACORN “brownshirts” and “their henchmen”
at SEIU: “[T]hey break kneecaps… Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, I don’t know”

Joe The Quitter: ‘Joe The Plumber’ Quits The G.O.P — These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter.

Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities.

And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian ? in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to “regain our status as a national party” and creating woe-is-us groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America and 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation.

John McCain’s campaign manager recently described his party as basically extinct on the West Coast, nearly extinct in the Northeast and endangered in the Mountain West and Southwest. [ READ MORE ]

What’s Sarah Palin’s Problem

G.O.P Threatens To Investigate Clinton in Retribution

‘Grand Old Patriotism’ — Another Civil War in The Making?

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Move over Gingrich — Rudy Giuliani is now The GOP’s ‘FAMILY VALUES’ Guy!

Politico: Rudy Giuliani, the thrice-married former New York City mayor, has come out strongly against Democratic Gov. David Paterson’s proposed gay marriage bill.

Giuliani’s opposition, articulated in an interview with The New York Post published Monday, was widely interpreted as an attempt by the moderate Republican to position himself for a possible run for the party’s 2010 New York gubernatorial nomination.

Same-sex marriage is shaping up as a hot-button 2010 issue both in New York and nationally, and Giuliani’s comments generated a quick backlash from gay rights groups, which had considered Giuliani an ally during his days in Gracie Mansion. [ READ MORE ]

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