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To: RetiredNow who wrote (542347)	1/9/2010 11:55:17 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576768

‘Disconnected’: Krauthammer Accuses Obama of Addressing Terrorism ‘Casually’ breitbart.tv

To: RetiredNow who wrote (542347)	1/9/2010 12:08:47 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576768

There are pragmatic non-leftwing Democrats - I voted for Bob Lanier and thought he was a good mayor. So that disproves your charge right there. Liberal is a dirty word, even liberals know it and try to avoid it.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (542347)	1/12/2010 1:06:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576768

Parker on gay issues: It's complicated Melissa Philip/Chronicle Mayor Annise Parker, at a police cadet class, is more focused on basic services than gay rights During her successful mayoral campaign, Annise Parker made it abundantly clear that advancing the interests of Houston's gay community wouldn't be near the top of her policy agenda. She was, after all, seeking to take the helm of a city government facing serious financial and service-delivery challenges. Much of the national news coverage of Parker's election focused on her history-making role as the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. Parker sat patiently through all the interviews and gave various versions of the same answer: Yes, I'm a lesbian and proud of my community, but I'm running to make life better for all Houstonians. If any local pundits don't think this was a wise political strategy, we haven't heard from them. But one journalist, writing in the Boston Globe, has questioned Parker's stance on moral grounds, suggesting that first-of-a-kind public figures such as Parker and President Barack Obama feel they must "water down the fight for equality" to avoid the pitfalls of identity politics. Another recent piece on the Web site Daily Kos notes the origins of Parker's political activism in the mid-1980s, a time when the "Straight Slate" of anti-gay candidates drew a lot of attention. The Daily Kos post also links to an article written by Parker herself in OutSmart magazine in 2008, recounting her attendance at the funeral of Louie Welch and recalling Welch's notorious "shoot the queers" remark during his unsuccessful bid to reclaim the mayor's office in 1985. I covered that campaign and recall hearing Welch tell a gathering of ministers that the AIDS epidemic might be God's way of sending a message about steering a proper moral course. The reference to homosexuality wasn't explicit, but might as well have been. That Parker could write without rancor about a man who had made this statement says much about her. And it suggests that her decision not to make gay civil rights her administration's top priority is more than a cynical political calculation. blogs.chron.com BTW Louie Welch was a Democrat who served as mayor of Houston for 5 terms.