Tag Archives: 2008 elections

Gay Blog Power

Press release: Please join Queerty THIS THURSDAY, June 14, in New York City as we celebrate gay pride with special guest Sen. Mike Gravel, the U.S. Presidential Candidate. In the running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Gravel has bestowed us the extreme honor of meeting Queerty’s readers. He tells us that he’s thrilled to be welcome at this …

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Pace Out As Chief Of Staff

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Friday that he was replacing General Peter “Gays Are Immoral” Pace as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Of Staff. Gates had planned on naming Pace to another two-year term as Joint Chief, but changed his mind after consulting key members of Congress who are working on 2008 election damage control for the Republicans. CNN is …

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HRC Questionaire Results

The Human Rights Campaign has released the results of its questionnaire (PDF) posed to all Democratic presidential candidates, where they express universal support for ENDA, the hate crimes bills, gay adoption, same-sex spousal immigration rights, increased AIDS funding, the repeal of DADT, and science-based sex education and disease prevention. All candidates also support changes in how the federal government recognizes …

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The Bearded Governor

Florida Governor Charlie “Closet” Crist has grown a beard and her name is Kelly. Yesterday they made their relationship known to the St. Petersburg Times, who gushed, “She’s blond. She’s tan. She’s a mother of two, a former beauty queen who auditioned for NBC’s Fear Factor by eating a live earthworm and hiding four lizards in her mouth.” During his …

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Hillary Needs A Song

In a move to shed her stodgy image, Sen. Hillary Clinton is asking visitors to her presidential campaign site help her pick her official campaign song. The songs to choose from include Right Here, Right Now – Jesus Jones, Beautiful Day – U2, I’m A Believer – Smash Mouth, and curiously, the old R&B classic, I’ll Take You There by …

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Stealthberg

As the leading Republican candidates continue to trip over themselves in a fight to the bottom, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has quietly relaunched the site he used in his last two mayoral campaigns. Term limits means that Bloomberg cannot be NYC mayor again. When asked if he plans on running for president, he usually waffles between “no” and “not likely”. …

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Giuliani & Clinton Tighten Margin

In this week’s Newsweek poll, which asks voters to choose in various match-ups between current presidental campaign leaders, the closest race is between the two front runners, Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton, who are separated by only 3 points, with 5% unsure. Obama and Edwards do much better against all three Republicans. Match-ups and results: Giuliani 46% – Clinton 49% …

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Clinton: Repeal War Authority

Yesterday Sen. Hillary Clinton proposed a repeal of the 2002 authority Congress gave Bush to invade Iraq, joining Sen. Robert Bird in a call to end that authority by Oct. 11th, the 5th anniversary of the original vote. Analysts believe that such a repeal would undoubtedly become an issue for the federal courts, as it would raise constitutional issues about …

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MySpace Politics

I have lost one of my “top eight” MySpace friends, for the moment. Barack Obama’s campaign has wrestled control of the MySpace page being operated by one of his supporters after they decided that with more than four times more “friends” than the other candidates, it would be best if the page were run by his actual campaign staff. A …

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Accomplished: 3351 Dead Soldiers

Today is the anniverary of one of the stupidest and most contrived political stunts in American history and the Democratic candidates are not missing the opportunity to comment on it. Barack Obama: “Four years after President Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ we are still in a war where more than one hundred American service members …

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Dem Leaders Rock Cali Con

Rex Wockner, intrepid gay reporter/superhero, covered yesterday’s California Democratic State Convention yesterday, where Barack Obama stepped on his camera. That mishap aside, Rex got some great photos of Obama, Hillary, and Nancy Pelosi. Check out his story and photos here.

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Giuliani Reverses On Civil Unions

Rudy Giuliani has reversed his previous position on civil unions, saying he is opposed to yesterday’s New Hampshire civil union vote. His campaign issued this statement: “Mayor Giuliani believes marriage is between one man and one woman.Domestic partnerships are the appropriate way to ensure that people are treated fairly. In this specific case the law states same sex civil unions …

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Kucinich To File Against Cheney

Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has announced that this week he plans on filing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. Beltway insiders are claiming this move is merely a publicity ploy by Kucinich, who is trailing far behind in the polls. One quote: “We’ll see a Kucinich administration before we’ll see a Cheney impeachment.” Yeah, I’m …

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John Edwards Wants You

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards has begun aggressively courting the gay vote, releasing the names of 25 prominent LGBT Americans who are supporting his campaign. Edwards: “I am honored to have the support of so many well-respected LGBT leaders. They work hard every day to make our country a better place and I am proud to join with them to …

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Leave But Also Stay

Yesterday Hillary Clinton said that if she were president, she would definitely sign the House bill that demands total pullout of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by summer of 2008. But she also said that a continued indefinite American presence was necessary to sweep Iraq for terrorists, continuing her strategy of making absolutely no one happy about her policy on …

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John Edward’s Wife Has Cancer Again

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, announced this afternoon that her cancer has recurred, this time in her bones. She was treated for breast cancer in 2004. Mrs. Edwards says that she is currently asymptomatic and that her treatment will not affect her husband’s campaign and fundraising. Talking heads are already speculating on how this news …

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Hillary Continues Gay Outreach

Hillary Clinton continued her campaign for gay support yesterday, speaking at the GMHC 25th anniversary gala at Chelsea Piers. The event, which raised almost $900,000 for GMHC, was also attended by former NJ governor Jim McGreevey, Larry Kramer, Rosie O’Donnell, and other luminaries. Among the evening’s honorees was Matilde Krim, founding chairman of AMFAR.

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Hillary Beefs Up Pace Response

After being criticized yesterday by gay groups for her weak condemnation of Joint Chiefs Chairman General Peter Pace calling gays “immoral”, Sen. Hillary Clinton issued a more strongly worded follow-up statement: “I disagree with what he said and do not share his view, plain and simple,” the Senator said. “It is inappropriate to inject such personal views into this public …

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Sanchez & Gingrich

[Image removed at request of photographer.] From an anonymous emailer: Matt Sanchez meeting with possible 2008 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. No further details available.

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Hillary Wants The Gays

On Friday, Hillary Clinton made a keynote speech to the Human Rights Campaign, telling them that she wanted a “partnership” with gays in her presidential campaign. What she did not do, however, was publicize the speech via either her Senate office or her campaign office. Clinton’s spokeman said the event was not publicized because the HRC board meeting is closed …

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