Did you hear? Obama only won because he's black.

That's what some idiots would have you believe. That suddenly being black or half black is an advantage.

Obama won because he was the more qualified candidate. Cool under pressure. Smart. Intelligent. He has brought people into his cabinet of all ideologies. He has wasted no time issuing out executive orders and starting to make good on election promises.

ENOUGH! Enough of the reverse racism. And the whining. ENOUGH! Just shut the fuck up.

Just as when we dissented against Bush and you told us "this is America, love it or leave it." I say the same to you racists now who think the only reason this inspiring and intelligent man beat out a living fossil who ran a dirty campaign and played women for fools with the choice of his VP pick; is because he's black.

When the truth is the only reason anyone would vote for McCain would be because he "wasn't" black. Let's get real here folks. No one was excited about McCains candidacy. If you can write off millions of people as idiots who voted for a man simply becuase of the color of his skin, then I shall write off the other millions who voted for a senile, grumpy, condescending fool like McCain.

You lost. Take your own advice. Obama is our president. Love it or leave it.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot dissent all of a sudden is no longer unpatriotic. But no..now you dissenters are the intelligent ones. Who invoke Martin Luther King in saying that Obama was chosen for his color and not the content of his character. What character did McCain show over Obama?

I hope you enjoy the next 8 years. You have a lot of work to do after the mess you've created with your former president if you ever want to be re-elected again.

Barrack Wins - The Housewives of Atlanta and Immigrants and Faggots

What a Tuesday. Its now thursday morning and I still haven't got my head around it. We wont. By a landslide. I predicted their would be a "youth quake" since most polls did not take into account all the new voters; but wow. Senator Obama has a mandate. 333 electoral votes.

The strange thing is going around the internet...that minority that is the ultra conservative is very loud, and very proud. And still up to their tricks. In the end, there's probably not as many partisan people out there as me or the guys who like to type the word "Libtard" into every liberal blog.

This shows what the "real America" looks like. Funny thing is it's still hard to find very many people who love Obama in my local community. I think when it comes down to it, people like to complain, but they don't really get into politics. And probably didn't even vote. My sister is I think the average American. Neither one way or another but would vote with her pocket book...if she wasn't so lazy. She went to vote, and turned around because the lines where too long. In the end she thought it was cool Obama won because "it's history."

"Real" America is a lot more complex than the media would like to acknowledge. In the end, the maority of whites, hispanics ... every ethnicity preferred Obama. African Americans went for Obama 95%.

We can no longer have elections like we had in the past. No more old white guys playing to as broad an audience as possible. No more John Kerry windsurfing. McCain hanging out at biker rallies. The future of American politics is young people. Minorities. Women. Maybe I"m being too optimistic but neither party can now take the "others" for granted.

Unless of course you're gay! For while it was an extremely wonderful and joyous day, Proposition 8 passed.

Thankfully it's not that simple. We are protected in the California constitution. Equal protection. So the validity of Prop 8 is questionable. Which is good. There will most likely be lawsuits. And so there should be. If it wasn't for "activist" judges schools would have never have intergrated. Can't always leave it to the people. The people are ignorant.

Unfortunately, that new powerful voting block, the minority...the immigrant; is unfortunately not in solidarity with the gays. Hispanics and African Americans supported Prop 8 over whites. Which explains why those in charge of the Prop 8 campaign used a hispanic family while our campaign ad focused on whitey mcwhiterson. All along it's not the Cali whites we had to reach it was the cali "others."

This doesn't make me hate immigrants or suddenly become racist. But I'm dissapointed that a minority could opress another minority. Remember, at one time African Americans where thought to have smaller skulls, smaller brains and be sexually lacivious. There was no evidence of this but people believed it, just like the people who believe homosexuality is a choice and a sin. These are opinions based on fear.

In reading blogs; its amazing how Religious fanatics are making this an issue about "religious freedom" making themselves the victim. The truth is marriage is many things. It can be secular; in front of a judge if you are an Athiest; it can be Buddhist, Jewish, Unitarian...no relition or people have a monopoly on marriage. So how is letting churches who support gay people perform marriage ceremonies not taking their rights away?

it's because those Churches which disagree, are tax exempt. And they make a killing on faith. They don't pay taxes and don't want to be forced to perform gay marriages. They want their cake and they want to eat it too. Government support but with the right to discriminate.

Whatever. This is not over. Was very happy to see protests in West Hollywood today. we have to stop being passive about this. We need more activism less pasivism.

I am exhausted. So what do the Housewives of Atlanta have to do with any of this. I saw the election at my friend David and Jons house. They are quite the odd couple. David was getting tired of election results and at 8pm pacific...just as Obama was declared winner decided to change the channel to The Real Housewives of Atlanta thinking that their would be no results until 11pm pacific. He was watching CNN, which broadcasts out of New York; so he didn't realize that 11pm actually meant 8pm.

So when I look back at this historic occasion, and think back to where I was when Obama was announced as the first African American president ever; I can say, I was watching the first 5 minutes of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta."

And the funny thing is we would have continued to watch it but the DVR was set to record "Paris, My New BFF" but recorded the vapid housewives instead. So if Paris had been on TV...I would have gotten the news 30 minutes (or more) later than everyone else in the world.

Thanks David lol

If the World Could Vote?

Kudos to "three guys in Iceland" for creating a website that allows the world to cast their vote in the US presidency.

What we find is that the world overwhelmingly see Barrack Obama as the most qualified candidate to lead the free world.

Of course right-wingers will look to see that countries like Iran and Syria prefer Obama, but the votes are cast not by the government but by people living in that country. And since Bush always told us that the war in Iraq was not about the "people" of Iraq but about Saddam and his regime, it seems that those in "countries that don't like us very much" who have access to the internet see Obama as being the most stabilizing for their country.

This also includes Israel. Which also prefers Obama, as well as all our main allies including those in the Anglosphere Australia, Canada and the UK and Ireland and New Zealand.

Albania however wants McCain for some reason...hmm??

To see the results yourself go to: http://iftheworldcouldvote.com

The Daily Show: Fear on Both Sides of the Aisle

I love being partisan. As a gay male I feel I have no choice but to be partisan. I vote Democrat because Republican's scare me.

The Daily Show had an interesting segment showing Obama rallies and McCain rallies and the common thread they both share. Fear.

Of course the Daily Show....trying to be "balanced" showed that the Obama supporters where scared for more rational reasons. While the GOP where scared over completely ficticious things. Like Obama being a secret muslim terrorist socialist Arab.

I do have to say, that for the first time in my life; the old "turd-sandwhich" vs douchebag analogy (well not so old...4 years old) does not apply in this case.

Obama was a long shot. I attended bake sales for Obama. Donated to the campaign. (10 bucks but hey I'm out of school and still unemployed) and have never seen so much excitement over a candidate in my whole life.

Sure Obama may have backtracked on some of his more progressive roots in order to please the mainstream. But so too would Ron Paul if he had been lucky enough to get the Republican nomination. But nobody has sold his soul to the devil more than John McCain. A fiscal conservative/social liberal who's become a social conservative and can't decide whether or not hes still a fiscal conservative and de-regulator or someone willing to take on all the bad debt with tax payer money.

John McCain pisses me off. All conservatives do. But when John McCain plays victim and underdog...with his false sense of modesty; you know he believes the presidency is his birthright.

In the spirit of devisive, partisan politics (which is very fun when you're a gay man living in California; fearing Prop 8, fearing for the future of the Supreme Court) I have posted a picture of McCain after the second presidential debate. In which he made fun of Obama as he exited the stage. What a grumpy old ass.