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How Obama Became the Gay-Rights President: The inside story of his political evolution
The New Republic ^ | October 12, 2014 | Marc Solomon, National Campaign Director for Freedom to Marry

Posted on 10/13/2014 3:14:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

When President Barack Obama launched his campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat in late 2002, his wife Michelle enlisted the help of a longtime friend, Kevin Thompson. Michelle had gotten to know Thompson back in the early 1990s, when she was still Michelle Robinson and the pair worked in the policy shop of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Over the years, the two had stayed close, working together again at the University of Chicago Hospitals and swapping home improvement ideas over meals.

Obama, who was then a state senator, would be facing off in the Democratic primary against businessman Blair Hull and State Comptroller Dan Hynes. Both had much greater name recognition and resources. Thompson dedicated himself to helping build support for Obama on the liberal Lakefront on the North Side of Chicago, which included the uber-gay neighborhood of Boystown centered on North Halsted Avenue.

At that time, Obama had very little gay support to speak of. Thompson, who is gay, wanted to fix that. In early 2003, he organized a Sunday afternoon meet-and-greet at a small bar called Cocktail. Obama drank beer, smoked cigarettes, and chatted with the crowd of a few dozen for a couple hours.

After Obama cruised to victory in the March 2004 primary, the race shifted from urban Cook County to the entire state. Thompson joined the campaign fulltime to become Obama’s “body man,” which meant he’d be with the candidate from morning to night, helping him prepare for events. The two men got along well, and they had something else in common: they were both biracial, with a white mother and black father.

One day they were driving to a Democratic Party event in Schuyler County in the very rural west-central part of the state, known in the Illinois political world as Forgottonia....

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TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: gaypresident; godgap; homofascism; homosexualagenda; illinois; lavendermafia; liedtovoters; mythmaking; obama; obamalied; obamaonreligion; phonychristian; pinkjournalism; religiousleft; revisionisthistory
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To: 4Liberty

was that in the section marked “slackers”?


21 posted on 10/13/2014 4:14:07 PM PDT by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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To: 4Liberty

22 posted on 10/13/2014 4:14:17 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: madprof98

Yup.


23 posted on 10/13/2014 4:15:34 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

24 posted on 10/13/2014 4:15:50 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

25 posted on 10/13/2014 4:17:05 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: 4Liberty

26 posted on 10/13/2014 4:19:50 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Prejudice and generalizations. That's how Collectivists roll......)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"After Obama cruised to victory"

That just about says it all.

27 posted on 10/13/2014 4:24:12 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

if you really want to know how 0bama got his start as the homo rights activist... google ‘goatse’

*warning: liberal world view on display. search with caution

you’ve been warned


28 posted on 10/13/2014 4:24:13 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He became the "gay" rights president the same way every liberal became "gay" rights: it became the party line. And everyone, from the NAACP to the "nature-lovers" fell into line.

Seriously. They way all the interest groups on the Left hang together without the slightest bit of disharmony is almost miraculous.

29 posted on 10/13/2014 4:27:57 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale

The story is he waited till the polls said it was safe. Next.


30 posted on 10/13/2014 4:30:15 PM PDT by Impy (Voting democrat out of spite? Then you are America's enemy, like every other rat voter.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It may be legal, but it’s still wrong


31 posted on 10/13/2014 4:35:20 PM PDT by 11th_VA (It may be legal, but it's still wrong)
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To: Impy; 2ndDivisionVet; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale
>> The story is he waited till the polls said it was safe. Next. <<

And ironically, the lefties praised his "courage" for that.

I'd like to know the inside story of which evil DemonRat came up with their new buzz word "marriage equality", however. On cue, they all started using it overnight.

32 posted on 10/13/2014 5:40:38 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Thanks to RINOs, Illinois has definitely become a "red state" -- we are run by Communists!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Being Pimp Daddy Putin's Bottom Bitch Boy was probably a good start....

Wipe yer chin, Queen Putt, you Marxist, Mooslim, Kenyan, Steaming Pant Load

33 posted on 10/13/2014 6:04:05 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: BillyBoy; Impy; 2ndDivisionVet; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; Gilbo_3
RE:” The story is he waited till the polls said it was safe. Next. <<
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And ironically, the lefties praised his “courage” for that. “

Well too many Americans were stupid for believing him. And even dumber for accepting this lie.

They call themselves progressives for reason, they take our country away inch by inch if that is what it takes.,

34 posted on 10/13/2014 9:37:23 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: 4Liberty

He might as well be hugging him.


35 posted on 10/13/2014 10:07:51 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I guess that’s a hint to homosexual readers. Is the author homosexual?


36 posted on 10/13/2014 10:09:08 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: BillyBoy; Impy; Clintonfatigued; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale

This is good: http://youtu.be/VeASvCUOuMI


37 posted on 10/14/2014 6:03:32 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; narses; Nachum; SunkenCiv

So, to satisfy his homosexual audience and keep their power and money coming in, Obama spends 2-4 hours per week in meetings and DOJ briefings and analysis (anal lies ?) of individual appeals and specific judicial phrases between January 2013 and October 2014.

OK.

In the meantime, ISIL/ISIL takes over the Mideast, Christians are murdered and tortured worldwide, we lose Afghanistan, Pakistan, Malaysia, Germany, Russia, North Korea, Iran gets nukes, Israel is hit by 4800 unguided rockets, we lose Turkey, we lose the Ukraine, Hong Kong revolts, Benghazi and Libya are lost to Muslim radicals, the southern border is opened up to 35,000 illegals and the economy tanks.

But when those topics are presented, Obola misses 65 percent of the national security intelligence briefings. And the press corpse doesn’t care! Because homosexual marriage IS promoted to the “law of the land” ...


38 posted on 10/14/2014 6:27:07 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; GeronL

The truth is probably it began with a man on man encounter long before he became a Senator or even had a wife.


39 posted on 10/14/2014 7:26:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Correct, he lied to black church goers who opposed the notion of two men getting married. Their preachers assured them that Obama did not support it just as they assured him he was a Christian.

His own “fight the smears” site said that he was a LIFELONG Christian. Odd seeing as how neither of his parents were Christians and his grandmother who raised him was a unitarian.


40 posted on 10/14/2014 7:28:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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