Why We Are Big on Barack

Topix Gay News  Jul 05 08

Just in case you have any questions why we as LGBT voters need to support Barack Obama.

McCain knows that in 2004 Bush did a pretty good job of using same-sex marriage bans on 11 state ballots to get conservative voter out to the polls, even though McCain refused to support the proposed federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which Bush promoted in that election.

With the death toll in the war in Iraq rising every day, the economy heading into the tank and numbers on home foreclosures, joblessness and gas prices heading to the moon, John McCain, has taken some very unpopular George Bush-like stances on lifting the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, expanding Bush's tax cuts, and leaving the troops in Iraq forever, so he will need all the conservative voters he can get. Full story...

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