To all my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, I sincerely apologize.

[Tatiana]

I've had some free time this morning and reading some of the posts on the board this morning, I am left shaking my head.

So this is what it's like.

Someone says our candidate is "palling around with terrorists," and we're supposed to ignore it. Just for three weeks.

At one of the McPalin rallies, someone shouts "kill him!" likely referencing the potential murder of our candidate. And we're supposed to just ignore it. Only for three weeks.

Because we don't want to get into a "race war."

Think about the DOMA and ask yourself how and why marriage needed "defending." The conservative argument goes something like this:

Letting the gays get married will jeopardize all of our pure and holy heterosexual marriages. We've got to stop gay marriage!!!!

I'm reading http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7379282">Dana Milbank's columns and I can literally feel his growing sense of horror. Now we have a growing underbelly being incited by the McPalin campaign which goes something like this:

Letting this black man become President will jeopardize our pure (white) and holy (Christian fundamentalist) nation. We've got to stop Obama!

Now McPalin know that Obama isn't a terrorist or a Muslim or dangerous. Just like the anti-gay members in Congress as well as President Clinton knew that gay marriage wasn't going to do a damn thing except let two committed people enjoy the same benefits heterosexual couples currently have. But acts like Prop 8 and DOMA appeal to the worst segment of American society: stupid people who DO believe that shit. In the same way, allowing McPalin to continue to suggest that Sen. Obama has terrorist ties or that somehow "we don't really know who he is (after two years of campaigning)" without any sort of rebuttal from WE, the PEOPLE, is a mistake.

DOMA was a mistake. And it's something we need to fix. We can't cave again.

I can't imagine someone telling me that loving my fiance is wrong or repulsive and not responding. Likewise, I can't imagine allowing someone to call my future President - a fine, intelligent, caring, and good person that he has terrorist ties or doesn't love America as much as I do.

Maybe I'm wrong, here. Please talk me down.

[goddess40]

1. We can't stop this crap in three weeks and by making too huge of a deal

we will actually be doing the work of the republican terrorists, just as the American's did bin Laudin's work by knuckling under to the fear that was whipped up by the republican's.

This fear-mongering by the right is terrorism, have no doubt about it.

[Maven]

2. Thank you for posting, and for getting it

It's hard to just stay quiet when your basic self is under attack.

[Tatiana]

4. I get it. I truly do. That's it exactly.

I feel as if my "basic self is under attack."

I can't help but think about how a gay couple felt in the wake of DOMA. And we've constantly told gay people to be patient, to wait, to be quiet so as not to jeopardize any elections.

And after the election, not much changes.

Well, this is a change election. And my feeling is we can no longer sit idly by while hateful rhetoric incites angry masses. The change starts with us.

[sandnsea]

3. Let Obama run his campaign

We're winning. Please. Let's just win this thing.

[dgibby]

5. Evil exsists/florishes when good men do nothing.

I paraphrase, and my apologies-I don't remember who said it first, but I wholheartedly agree.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

6. You are right

and I am so frustrated.

I do not suffer fools willingly and I am not at all happy about the ugliness of the campaign.

I wish we could go out for a drink together - :hi:

[ecstatic]

7. McShame wants us to change the subject from the economy to cultural issues

What they are doing is disgusting and enraging to me. I hope Americans don't fall for the smears and hate.

However, my limited understanding of the so called swing voters is that they are turned off by negative attacks and McShame is sinking himself on his own.