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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (43558)	11/6/2008 3:47:45 PM
From: nigel bates	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>>the other is something far deeper.<< I agree entirely. >>But perhaps you have to be in a group who has been and/or would be denied human rights to understand the depth of what it means to truly betray another. << No, I get it. I just fundamentally disagree with you that he's done that. He's someone who is hated by a considerable number of republicans precisely because he's been calling them on their bigotry since he went over to the US. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that it's been a very painful road at times. Part of being 'normal' means people accepting that a gay republican isn't unusual. Refusing to be shunned, calling you fellow party members out as bigots, and if necessary endorsing the other side's candidate is part of that: it is refusing to accept that sexual orientation should be a matter of political consequence.