While the pundits try and spin the election from here to eternity, the 2009 election was the last one I will participate in.
No more money to candidates, no more signs on the lawn, no more support of ANY candidate or cause. I am no longer going to support a political system that – as David Mixner so eloquently stated today in his blog – continues to create a system of Gay Apartheid in America.
I’ve had enough.
What angers me most is knowing I supported the wrong candidate for president. I was blinded by my dislike of Bill Clinton and took it out on Hillary.
I believed. I had hope. I thought you were serious when you spoke about change.
What a laugh. I was lied to and used again by another politician who had no intention of ever doing anything about my civil rights. Your silence has been deafening. Your lack of leadership in anything at all is unparalleled in modern history.
Your attorney general had the gall to state that you had “no opinion” on Amendment 1 in Maine? NO OPINION?!? The President of the United States, whose Democratic Platform stated “We support the full inclusion of all families, including same-sex couples, in the life of our nation, and support equal responsibility, benefits, and protections.” had NO OPINION?!?
That mixed race couple in Louisiana who were denied a marriage license a few weeks ago by that racist, Justice of the Peace (what an oxymoron) have filed a Federal lawsuit claiming their 14th Amendment rights were violated.
THEIR 14th Amendment rights…not mine…not ours…but THEIRS. *I* don’t HAVE any rights under the 14th Amendment. The Defense of Marriage Act took them away. Gay Apartheid.
Well, Mr president, let me tell you MY opinion. It is MY opinion that you are going to be a one-term president. Your huge grassroots campaign – your high-tech internet followers – will not be there for round two.
You’ve lost me – a Vietnam Veteran – whose first ever presidential ballot was cast absentee for George McGovern.
Your lack of leadership has finally done what years of Nixon, Reagan and the rest of them couldn’t do – it has made me lose faith in America.
It is also my opinion that your lack of leadership is going to cost your party both the House and the Senate – not that either makes any difference since all of you seem to be beholding to the very special interests you said you were campaigning against. I can’t tell the difference between a Democrat and a Republican, anyway.
Change. I can’t believe I actually thought you would be different.
What a moron I was.
I’m 55 years old and this was the first election I ever fully participated in. By that I mean that I believed this man was going to change the country. I believed so strongly that I donated money and time, I campaigned for Obama, I sent monthly contributions I could ill-afford. I drove many hours in the dark one morning to take our daughter to St. Louis to be a part of one of the largest political rallies in the country’s history, where we stood in line for hours to stand in a crowd and stare at people’s backs just to catch a glimpse of Barack Obama and cheer him to victory. I wept like a baby on election night. It was going to be a new day in our country.
I love the Obama’s as a couple in the White House. They did a bang-up job turning throwing a Halloween Party there. They’re cute as a button and he looks very presidential. The world loves them.
Big fucking deal. I’m farther away from gaining my civil rights today than I was under Bush. I’ve been thrown under so many buses I’ve got tire tracks. I’ll join you in the Big Meh.
Not another dime. It was a mistake to get so involved in this man’s election. I won’t make the mistake of putting my eggs in anyone else’s basket. Way to go, Obama … that’s change I can believe in … the one where I never believe in this country again. Excellent work.