Mr. President, the GayTM is no longer in service.

[IdaBriggs]

156. My original statements stand, with a subsequent clarification:

I said, "If he got up and spoke about the values he has in common with the Democrats, then unfortunately, he had a right to be there."

I also said I hadn't paid attention to him, and that meant my original comments were (politely) uninformed. I have since googled the speech (http://www.salon.com/2012/09/07/dolan_spoils_the_party/) and am officially in the appalled camp that he was actually nervy enough to come on stage at the convention and try to scold.

I believe in the Big Tent, but I think a better analogy in this case is a Life Raft, and this is a guy who wants to toss many of us into the drink to drown.

Very inappropriate, and a mis-step by the organizers. (I have also said "not as a big of a mis-step as Clint Eastwood talking to a chair, but a mis-step nonetheless.&quot

I am debating donating (again) to Obama. I really don't want these people near power over anyone's lives but their own. I am also very proud of our speakers, and am choosing to be "energized" by them, as opposed to "demoralized" by this man's "scolding."

I'll give the man this: it took nerve. Yes, I'm definitely going to go donate again....