With the recent march on Washington, and the subsequent question of how much President Obama is really willing to put forth aside from nice speeches, everybody seems to be forgetting the two things that make politics go the way you want it to go:
Money
Votes
For all the talk about what the President can or can't do, nobody's talking about what the gay community can do to make the President do something.
It seems pretty clear: Do what everybody else does--show him and Congress that if they don't start taking us seriously; it could affect them getting into office.
Oh wait, we can't make that claim.
Remember when it was Obama versus Clinton and Obama made vague statements about being pro-gay, but didn't really promise to change anything. Do you know why he didn't? Because he looked at the numbers and saw that he could win the election without us. For as much work as the gay community did on his behalf, had we turned against him and gone for McCain, he still would have won.
We have marches. We have petitions. We have rallies.
What we need are numbers.
We need to prove that if you mess with us, we can take you out of office and put someone in who will actually do something.
If we can't do that, then we need to do what the crazy religious people do.
Raise exorbitant amounts of money and bombard the airwaves with propaganda.
Oh, I'm not joking. It works, folks. Call it what you want, but it works.
Cute little Youtube videos that make fun of Prop 8 are humorous, but they don't actually ACHIEVE anything.
Stop sending money to people who are going to use it to create "symbols." Start sending it to someone who can pool it and buy airtime. One more commercial during CSI would shake things up more than twenty fancy dinners where Obama can make a speech.
You want to know when I'll be impressed by our President? When he tells all those church-goers who went out and voted for him and against gay marriage that they were wrong.
But those people gave him votes--a lot of votes.
And until we can give him just as many votes, I don't think he's giving us anything.
Money
Votes
For all the talk about what the President can or can't do, nobody's talking about what the gay community can do to make the President do something.
It seems pretty clear: Do what everybody else does--show him and Congress that if they don't start taking us seriously; it could affect them getting into office.
Oh wait, we can't make that claim.
Remember when it was Obama versus Clinton and Obama made vague statements about being pro-gay, but didn't really promise to change anything. Do you know why he didn't? Because he looked at the numbers and saw that he could win the election without us. For as much work as the gay community did on his behalf, had we turned against him and gone for McCain, he still would have won.
We have marches. We have petitions. We have rallies.
What we need are numbers.
We need to prove that if you mess with us, we can take you out of office and put someone in who will actually do something.
If we can't do that, then we need to do what the crazy religious people do.
Raise exorbitant amounts of money and bombard the airwaves with propaganda.
Oh, I'm not joking. It works, folks. Call it what you want, but it works.
Cute little Youtube videos that make fun of Prop 8 are humorous, but they don't actually ACHIEVE anything.
Stop sending money to people who are going to use it to create "symbols." Start sending it to someone who can pool it and buy airtime. One more commercial during CSI would shake things up more than twenty fancy dinners where Obama can make a speech.
You want to know when I'll be impressed by our President? When he tells all those church-goers who went out and voted for him and against gay marriage that they were wrong.
But those people gave him votes--a lot of votes.
And until we can give him just as many votes, I don't think he's giving us anything.
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