Okay, now I have to admit that I'm glad I didn't join the call. Once I realized that you were on the call and I had to do something else, it seemed like mana from heaven. Now that I've seen your report, it must have been a miracle I didn't waste my time.

Obama’s hacks called a press conference because he screwed up again. At last Sunday’s christer-bigot love fest with McCain in deepest, palest Orange County Obama slipped up and told the truth, again confirming his utter contempt for the GLBT communities.

He told the jesus jumpers that their superstition-fueled hatred for us, in the form of opposition to same sex marriage, is not bigotry. Because he shares the same feelings about us.

The angry reaction in the GLBT communities frightened Obama’s shills who hoped that rehashing soon to be broken promises would be an effective TACTIC to appease naive LGBT voters. They're afraid of the dawning realization that his decision to attend the OC bigotfest, his constant repetition of his bigoted attitude towards same sex marriage and the string of revival meetings led by ex gay preacher/ total piglet Donnie McClurkin are all part of Obama’s STRATEGY of pandering to bigot voters.

He needs bigot votes to counter the growing effects of Republican swiftboating and racism and the one hand and the growing disgust with his cynical opportunism on the other. Luckily for him he’s pretty damn good at pandering: according to the Barma Group, a christer polling organization he leads McCain 43% to 34%, reversing a decade of Republican domination in that sector.

If bigots elect Obama they’ll own him. Ask George Bush. Ask Bill Clinton. Just don’t ask any of them to do us any favors.

Far more important than electing cynical hustlers and doctrinaire christers like Obama or McCain are our own efforts to build indendent, massive GLBT groups to campaign for full equality and to lend our efforts to building the antiwar movement free of partisan spoilers. Whoever wins in November will view our struggles from the point of view of expediency and hostility. We have to be strong enough to compel them to accept our equality.

Our disappointments aside it was a pretty busy day with a small country the Russians have invaded. They are being killed, raped, burned out, etc. and those persons who commented (then disappeared) could have been searching for information on this present crisis. I hope so because I do want to believe in the truthfulness of change until it becomes impossible to do so.

Thank you for your comments.

There are HUGE, complex difficulties in the world right now - and I do see this as one of the most important elections in my lifetime (I was not old enough to vote when Barry Goldwater threatened to drop the atomic bomb on Vietnam when running against Lyndon Johnson).

The stakes are incredibly high for the LGBT community, in particular -one need look no further than Obama and McCain's answers to Rick Warren's question about who they would NOT have selected to the US Supreme Court. BTW - too little press coverage of the profound contradiction in McCain's answer to when does life begin - he said at conception - and his support for stem cell research.

Anyway - understanding the stakes in this election does not mean we have to forfeit our right to question how the two campaigns operate.