A certain American reactionary suggests or implies that, according to him, women have no right to contraception.
This is probably the best reason to vote for Obama in the 2012 US Presidential election. Although he has been disastrous in other respects, when it comes to his Supreme Court nominees Obama has been fantastic. If the Republican nominee wins more reactionaries will be appointed, and they will be sure to roll back the rights of women and others.
Barack Obama has officially come out in favour of marriage equality.
Credit’s due where credit’s due, but frankly, this is no surprise to me. There was no doubt in my mind that he supported same–sex marriage the whole time. He just didn’t say so in a hopeless attempt at hair–splitting, meet–in–the–middleism in a pathetic try at compromising with unreachable wingnuts.
Near the beginning of April, my mother accidentally broke the network card on my computer (don’t ask; it’s a long story), and I was cut off from the internet for a month. But now, I’m reconnected. Here’s a month’s worth of posts, all rolled into one:
Straight from the socialists themselves, CNN has a report/interview about what actual socialists think of Obama. The gist of it: Obama’s no socialist. Indeed, it seems to me that Obama is a centrist at his most left–wing, and a moderate conservative at his most right–wing. But a socialist? No.
Words mean things, and by calling everyone “socialist”, “communist”, of “fascist”, the meanings of those words change. They become nearly meaningless insults that say more about the person applying them than about who they are applied to. If anything, they mean “I don’t like you” or “I disagree with your policies”. They have become impossible to characterize any further. The modern teabag movement almost begs for a new version of Godwin’s law:
“In any discussion of American politics, someone calling their opponent a socialist, communist, or fascist, will eventually occur.”
In his speech to the Human Rights Campaign, President Obama has promised to “[E]nd ’don’t ask-don’t tell.’” It’s good that he wants to end it. But he has said this before and has not followed through. It’s been enough talk now; it is time to act. If words were money, then everybody would be rich, but since words aren’t money, actions are needed.
As I have covered here before, DADT needs to be repealed because the policy it hinders the US military. As a matter of fact, I’ll make a statement here: if you support dismissing well-qualified and needed LGBT people (like interpreters) just for being an LGBT person, then you don’t support the troops. It’s that simple.
As virtually everyone knows by now, Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Personally, I think that this premature and is partly because he is not Bush. And this award is obviously controversial. But that is in the nature of the prize. Some, like those to the Red Cross and Red Crescent or that to Martin Luther King, went to those clearly deserving and with lots of work and dedication to humanitarian causes. Others, such as that of Yasser Arafat, questionable in hindsight. I don’t know and cannot predict which way this award will go; if I could, I’d be a television pundit. Just like everyone else, I hope that it goes in the first direct. The main problem with hope, of course, is that it is often unfulfilled.
Barack Obama has an uncanny ability to find people with tax problems (hat tip).
