Haha, omg - best title ever.

Thanks, Nick! It was the fourth I tried, lol.

You aced it the on the first try Alex.

The Democrats program, and the equally slimy Republican program are just campaign season lies. They're frauds.

Here's what a real, non-fradulent program would look like; one that incuded perfectly reasonable proposals (except maybe not so reasonable for the Peantagon and the Chamber of Commerce) to end the war, put the brakes on economic collapse and make the bigots, not us, STFU.

1. Permanent, immediate and total withdrawal of all US military, espionage and mercenary units from the Middle East to US home bases.

2.Cut the US purse stings that pay for the apartheid system used against Palestinians.

3. For socialized medicine paid by extremely high taxes on the rich and taking away the profits and assets of insurance companies and HMOs plus the dividends paid by pharmaceutical companies.

4. Against tax breaks, tax cuts and wasting taxpayer dollars on superstitious cults like the fraud promoted by Santorum, Clinton, Bush/Rove, and Obama of bankrolling 'faith' based charities. Instead, for punishing cult leaders whose hate speech advocates or empowers anti-GLBT violence.

5.Go all out to fight for an inclusive ENDA that would make it easy to win big judgments from discriminatory employers. Even if that means splitting their parties and expelling sellouts like Barney Frank.

6. For an inclusive housing bill that would make it easy to win big judgments from discriminatory lenders and landlords for ourselves and others.

7.Impose harsh federal sentences on organizations, cults and individuals convicted of hate crimes and redefines hate crimes to include harassment, violence and hate speech directed against the GLBT communities as well as others.

8.For a constitutional guarantee of a minimum wage of $25.00 an hour with full benefits, adjusted semi-annually to fully account for inflation.

9. For a federal law cutting the normal work week to 32 hours without loss of pay or benefits and with time and a half after 32 hours, and double time after eight hours in any day or 40 hours in any week.

10. For the repeal of all FTA's - the NorthAmericanFTA, the KoreaFTA, the PeruFTA, and the CentralAmericanF TA. The FTA are anti-union, they impoverish working people and make the rich richer and they're environmental disasters.

11. For twenty days of paid vacation for all workers in plus paid federal holidays plus paid sick leave if prescribed by a doctor, including a year of paid maternity leave.

12. For a a federal law to protect workers who lose, or have lost their jobs because of outsourcing or efforts to control pollution. Those workers should be guaranteed reeducation and receive full income and benefits until they take a new job. In the case of those who lost their jobs to corporate outsourcing the costs of reeducation and living benefits should be paid for by a 100% tax on the dividends paid to corporate stockholders. In the case of jobs lost to anti-pollution effort the full cost of reeducation and full income and benefits should be paid by a 100% tax on the dividends paid to stockholders of all polluting corporations.

13. For federal laws laws that protect immigrant/imported workers at the same level as native workers. Close Guantanamo and end the prctice of hiring mercenaries and foreign governments to torture and murder.

14. Repeal the Paytriot Act and FISA and agressive prosecute of those who violated our civil rights and liberties.

Bill Clinton ran his presidential campaign on the slogan "It's the economy, stupid." He was wrong as usual, because he was a right wing fraud much like Obama and McCain. It's the stupid way the economy is organized by the rich and the parties they own, the Democrats and Republicans. McCain is a rancid right-winger with the Rev. Pat Robertson attached at the hip. Obama is Bill Clinton (DOMA, DADT, NAFTA) in drag with the Rev. Donnie McClurkin attached at the hip.

Somehow I knew I'd find Bill Perdue commenting before even I could get here. *grins*

I have to say though, it was the 1st thing I noticed too. I'd say they threw us a bone, but it was on a string, I think, and they pulled it back.

so by all means...lets prioritize our agenda because we need to make sure "our" party can get the job done for us.

Hogwash!

"do they just think we'll be happy to get that vague statement?"

Why wouldn't they expect all LBGT people to be happy with it? Its what trans people are expecetd to accept from them (not to mention from HRC) on specific concrete things like live ENDA bills.

Here we go with a dosey do attached at the hip in drag again...As much as I would love to see all wrongs righted simultaneously...as much as I have waited and yearned...DADT as a start, is a very strong first domino and something we can build upon more quickly than any other single change. I do not think of it as just a bone Bil, but the most they can do, and still win the office, and avoid McCain.

It is still about avoiding McBush isn't it?