Why I became an "Obamabot"

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133. Gee, your animus is so helpful

All I'm saying is, if you withheld your vote in 1990 or 1996 for Paul Wellstone (who wrote in his book, Conscience of a Liberal, that he regretted his DOMA vote and had been mistaken), you were de facto acting to install the Republican, Bushie Rudy Boschwitz: someone who was never going to regret a DOMA vote and change. Or maybe, to protest that vote in 1996, you voted for the crazy-ass Reform Party candidate, Dean Barkley, an accolyte of Jesse Ventura and Ross Perot.

Paul Wellstone, had he not been killed, would have gone on, like his colleagues, to repeal DOMA. He died before he could. You can curse his name all you want and ignore the work he did for labor, the environment, peace: you're entitled. But YOUR vote or refusal to vote always has consequences.

So stop gaysplainin me: I don't need it. It sounds bigoted, and I am secure enough in my long-time LGBT rights creds that I can, in return, say: I do not have to agree with you on this.