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Fight
Back!
By Peter Gemma
May 14, 2012
• Gay Rainbow is mostly Green:
Newsweek calls Barak Obama "The First Gay President."
The news magazine’s gay blogger, Andrew Sullivan, who wrote the
story, said he was moved to tears when Obama endorsed gay
marriage. But the real news in the story is not about
high-minded principles of human rights and equality -- it’s
about raw political power. One in six of Obama’s "bundlers" — a
political term for people who raise mega dollars within their
circles of influence — is gay. As the saying goes, follow
the money. Actor George Clooney’s high-powered Hollywood
fund-raiser the day after the President’s gay marriage
announcement netted a record-breaking $15 million in one
night. Chad Griffin, a member of Obama’s National Finance
Committee and a prominent gay rights leader, said his
constituency "will be more energized, more enthusiastic,"
noting, "I don't know anyone staying on the sidelines." In
June, Fox TV's "Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy and a man he calls
his "fiancé," David Miller, are hosting a dinner for the
President at $25,000 per person/$40,00 per couple. The dinner
and a concert earlier in the day could raise $5 million-$10
million more for Obama’s reelection campaign. With the
Republicans offering tepid candidates and only marginal tweaks
on important policy issues, the Obama campaign seems to have
taken a dramatic turn to the left to energize its more radical
base of support. However, that maneuver is risky, and Middle
American voters will be pivotal players come November. A May
10th Gallup /USA Today poll revealed that among the
all-important independent voters that candidates need to win,
11 percent are more likely to vote for Obama, but 23 percent
less likely because of his endorsement of gay
marriage. That 12 percent difference is clout, more than gay
money can buy. So how can Middle America fight
back against what looks like a tide of energized
Obama campaigners? First of all, political momentum on
the gay marriage issue is running against it: as of May 8,
2012, when North Carolina voters approved a constitutional
amendment to preventing redefining marriage and other types of
state-recognized same-sex unions by a whopping 61percent to 39
percent, it became number 30 in states that have taken such a
stand. If this is an important issue for you, get involved:
contact the National Organization for Marriage (www.nationformarriage.org),
Campaign for Working Families (www.cwfpac.com),
and the Family Research Council (http://www.frc.org).
Third, register to vote, find out the candidates' stands on
issues, and then go to the polls as an informed
voter.
• Quickly noted …
☛ Do you have the Right to Privacy? Identity theft is now
part of everyday news stories—it is estimated that
approximately 15 million United States residents have their
identities used fraudulently each year with financial losses
totaling upwards of $50 billion. As many as seven percent of
all Americans have their identities misused with each
instance resulting in approximately $3,500 in losses. The
Privacy Rights Clearing House has recommendations to protect
your personal and professional information. To
fight back, go to http://privacyrights.org
for information.
☛ Middle American News reders know more than the
average citizen that our borders aren’t secure. A powerful new
weapon to use in educating others is this eye-opening interview
with Steve McCraw, Director of the Texas Department of Public
Safety on MSNBC. To fight back, watch
it here and send the link to others: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/46720793#46720793
☛ A 1995 C-SPAN tape just released shows Attorney General
Eric Holder, who was then a U.S. attorney in the Justice
Department of the Clinton Administration, saying that people
must be brainwashed on guns in order to change the hearts and
minds of citizens on the subject of violence. Holder states
that in order to get citizens to begin to think differently
about guns, advertising agencies, newspapers, and television
and radio stations should run anti-gun public service ads
similar to those launched by the government in the 1960s to
change the public's perception about smoking. To
fight back, you can see the info here
and send the link to others:
www.examiner.com/article/cspan-2-tape-shows-holder-saying-people-must-be-brainwashed-on-guns?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150832705105955_23931745_10150965019020955#f12d69cd8c
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