Doing Damage Control

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Barack Obama is talking to The Advocate about his difficult and controversy-filled week.

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    Posted: Oct 26, 2007 at 4:03 pm / Email this  »

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    1. To sherry or any other homophobe says – reply to this


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      Re: SherryRe: THE TRUTH – Sherry can you do me a favour - explain to me why - if god is so 'against gays', he created gay animals? 450 different species of animals have been tested and all have shown homosexual activity. It seems to me that (like different races) different sexual preferences is just part of nature and should be celebrated, not discriminated against.

    2. Darv says – reply to this


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      Hilliary is a cunt.

    3. imaginatj says – reply to this


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      It's sad how you all are so quick 2 judge. I'm sure All of the canidates have issues, y blow his out the frame, because he's a "BLACK MAN". Take a look in the mirror and see how perfect u r. Judge urself b4 u judge others. U all r y there will never b peace in the world. 4 All of u that make comments on my comment, ck ya self.

    4. Cthulhu says – reply to this


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      Re: john m – Obama is whatever he needs to be at any given moment. Just like every other idiot running for next year's office.

    5. incognito says – reply to this


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      ok perez, your coverage of obama is your worst case of sensationalism yet. he has NOT apologised, nor has he done anything wrong. if you actually took the time to read the article, you'd see that people LIKE YOU are just digging for dirt from a man who not only looks squeaky clean, but actually is. i hope he is the next president, for your sake.

    6. john m says – reply to this


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      Re: Cthulhu – He came to unite people, and the people failed.

    7. MIGHT MAKES RIGHT says – reply to this


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      Re: incognito
      THREE CHEERS FOR INGOGNITO! I agree Brother– Why should God's Great Hater have to apologize for being RIGHT! Thank you INCOGNITO for shedding light on the fact that Gay people have a CURSE planted on them- AS IS OBAMA'S Belief and mine. The only way to remove the curse is to praise Jesus and engage in heterosexual lovemaking (as a married couple- with the full intention of birthing as many human offspring as possible between now and your Christian death. So it is a welcome surprise to find your truthful words smiling at me here at the end of a glorious Christian Day! Praise mighty Obama and bring about his WRATH ASAP!!!!

    8. LAUREN says – reply to this


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      YOU CAN'T GET ELECTED PRESIDENT IN THIS COUNTRY UNLESS YOU PANDER TO THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT. THERE ARE SO MANY CHRISTIAN'S WHO ARE MORAL PEOPLE BUT ARE NOT JUDGEMENTAL, UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE SCARED OF THE EXTREME CHRISTIAN RIGHT.

    9. JOHN M IS AN IDIOT says – reply to this


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      Re: john m
      I believe that he came to declare that homosexuals were fucking CURSED you nimrod. Fuck Obama he is OVER. Watch him squirm in the limelight over this stupid fiasco. If nothing more, it represents every reason why we shouldn't vote for such an buffonishly amateur "leader"– not only because of his partisan hatred of homosexuals– because he is just a flippy-floppy pussy who can't make up his mind (as to who he hates more). FUCK OBAMA 08.

    10. I HATE TROLLS says – reply to this


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      #46 IS A TROLL DON'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THIS BITCH!

    11. GAYS ARE SO GULLIBLE says – reply to this


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      #118 is for Hilary, you are such a deluded fool!! She hates you people as well only she hides it better!

    12. leave the unfit mom out of it. says – reply to this


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      Re: SUPPORT BRITNEY:)

      You people kill me..you tell Perez to leave her
      alone and when he does..you keep plastering
      support shit about her..you can't fucking stand
      it that not any of these posts are about her.

      Britney's not getting our money if she can't quit
      drinking and act like a decent mother.Don't support the alcoholic.

      Obama, anyone who votes for him is kidding themselves..like a part black anything is going
      to get elected..your stupid idiots for supporting
      him..just waste your votes..idiots.

    13. mike says – reply to this


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      Re: Bow Down When I Come To Your Town!

      I'm not black, not even close, but good guess

    14. BOW DOWN WHEN I COME TO YOUR TOWN says – reply to this


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      Re: mike
      Well, then what gives you the RIGHT to talk about the BLACK FUCKING EXPERIENCE YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT???!!

    15. sunny johnny says – reply to this


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      Hillary clinton is a lezzie whore who likes to rug munch with cunti rice(that black bitch),hillary also engages in orgies with bill and chelsea in the romp…….woooo hooooo i am hard!!!i'm gonna go jerk off!!!!

    16. Sherry says – reply to this


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      Re: To sherry or any other homophobe – If you don't agree with my viewpoint then fine, but I am NOT homophobic! What post on here have you read that says anything of the sort?!? Not ONCE have I ever bashed the gay community! Not once! All I ever wanted was for people to back off of Obama over something so stupid as him inviting a gospel singer on the campaign trail with him. It just seems to me that we've got bigger fish to fry than THAT issue. But for pete's sakes… if you aren't even going to PAY ATTENTION to people's posts before slamming them, then what is the point in even posting at all?? You must have me confused with somebody else on here, because not ONCE have I said anything derrogatory about gays! LEARN TO READ dammit! I don't even know where the hell you are coming from, but I definitely don't want to be there wherever it is!

    17. Mike says – reply to this


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      Re: BOW DOWN WHEN I COME TO YOUR TOWN – It's history bro. It has nothing to do with trying to speak about the black expierience. I find your inexplicable hostility a little disturbing. First you talked shit about me using my blackness in this argument (a conclusion that I have no idea how you came to) then when you found out i wasn't black you talked shit about me not being black. You're contradicting yourself. But if you are doing it to be funny, then it worked. If not, then you've never really said anything about any of the points I made, just attempted to boil it down to a petty race issue that never existed in this argument. One doesn;t have to be black in order to talk about black things.

    18. THE SCHOOLYARD says – reply to this


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      Re: Sherry
      I thought you were GONE you nasty bitch!!!

      Signed,
      The Schoolyard

    19. ANTI-SHERRY says – reply to this


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      Re: Sherry
      The bigger fish to fry is some Christian do-gooder bitch (MEANING YOU) trying to play the all knowing voice of reason– when you are using it to justify the hate speech of McGlerkin and Obama because it suits your bullshit religion to a fucking T. Go FUCK yourself you nasty hating intolerant Bitch!!!

    20. Sherry says – reply to this


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      Re: THE SCHOOLYARD – No you idiot, I read other posts and checked email dear. I have a life beyond THIS POST.

    21. Sherry says – reply to this


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      Re: ANTI-SHERRY – Um… I'm religious?? Go figure. I learn something new about myself every day! (lol)

    22. kiki says – reply to this


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      He didn't DO anything! Protest Donnie McClurkin. He is the homophobe. He is probably the most honest politician about gay rights and you guys are going to treat him like this? Way to go gays… condemn your best chance at getting equal rights. THAT'S the best way to go about things. Idiots.

    23. Jessica says – reply to this


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      As he should be. Prejudices must die.
      That's an interesting picture of him.

    24. ratta says – reply to this


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      Not everyone who believes in the equal right to marry is gay. I for one consider it a big issue, and I am hetersexual. I don't just care about myself and not care about a whole group of people who are getting unequal treatment. We are talking about actual rights here. It's hypocrasy to claim you are for equal rights except for gays. It's sheltered to think it's only 1 percent of the population who are gay. If we are putting our blind trust into a leader who will effect laws being passed. That person in my opinion should be for equal rights of all citizens.

    25. RG says – reply to this


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      Flip flopper. Make up your mind already. He's another John Kerry.

    26. I do not agree with Muslim ideas about ANYTHING says – reply to this


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      The Muslim ideas about women are backward. We are not secondary to men. Most of us are smarter than men. Also, who are they to dictate to others who they can have sex with? That's between that person and God. He will judge us all one day. I do not feel any attraction to the same sex but just because I don't, why should I care if someone else does? How is that hurting society? Raise your own kids and mind your own damn business. I don't believe some of these anti-gay people are straight. :)

    27. Liquid Looey says – reply to this


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      Where all da jigaboo's at?

    28. YOUR CONCIENCE! says – reply to this


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      Re: kiki
      OBAMA is a fucking intolerant PIG and pretending like he isn't is like pretending that we aren't BREATHING AIR. You are an enabling idiot Kiki. And the best thing that could come of this is Obama the greatest hypocryte shitbag of the Western World can go sing his gay-hating gospel all he wants once he is kicked to the CURB of American Politics. Fuck him and Fuck you. Go ahead and vote for his worthless ass because my vote will make yours null and perfectly VOID.

    29. teabagg says – reply to this


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      hang it up Bamaman
      No way u in da whitehouse

    30. Dear gaylords says – reply to this


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      Gaylords are a smaller percentage of America than even blacks at 12% of the population.

      DO YOU BUTT FUCKING QUEERS HONESTLY BELIEVE YOUR VOTE MEANS/DOES SHIT?

      Fucking typical it's all about us fudge packing fucks, mentality.

      He's "OVER" cuz gaylords wont vote for him Bwaahahaha , all you gaylords will be too busy sucking on a bologne pony to vote for anything but another bare back cum shot.

    31. No one cares says – reply to this


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      No one cares about how the TINY percentage of queers vote.
      Your vote means EXACTLY JACK SHIT……

    32. WHY YOU SHOULD START WORRYING says – reply to this


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      Re: No one cares
      Hey Stupid ASSHOLE! Usually about 28% of this dumfuck country votes during presidential elections– which means that the inconsequential 12% group (with a 82% voter turnout) is close to 1/3 of the presidential VOTE… Know what that means? Obama is as fucked as your stupid worthless ass.

    33. Bo Duke says – reply to this


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      Ron Paul is the only person in this race who cares about this country.

    34. No Dick for Me, sorry says – reply to this


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      If he doesn't like homos, then he doesn't like homos, what the big fucking deal? There ar emany homos who don't like straight people.

    35. CalmDown says – reply to this


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      Obama doesn't hate anyone. People here screaming about him need to actually read about this issue. Obama never spoke out against any gay person. Ever. Period. He invited a gospel singer to perform who happens to feel homosexuality is against religion, which is very common amongst Christians. Obama also has gay staff members and a gay preacher who tour around the country with him.

    36. Cherry says – reply to this


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      Fuck Hillary!!!!!!!!!!! OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!

    37. Cherry says – reply to this


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      Re: Mike – I applaud you mike your absolutely correct!!!

    38. Sam says – reply to this


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      Obama is not all bad.read below…..

      Grist Magazine, Oct 17, 2007
      Straight to the Source

      Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama unveiled his agriculture plan yesterday on the campaign trail in Iowa. The plan includes all kinds of proposals that the Obama camp hopes will excite rural Americans — particularly those who reside in early-primary states. Obama's ag plans include increasing funding to help farmers transition to organic, reforming the USDA's crop-insurance program so it doesn't penalize organic farmers, requiring country-of-origin labeling on meat products, enforcing stricter pollution regulations for CAFOs (concentrated animal-feeding operations), increasing use of ethanol and other biofuels by requiring 60 billion gallons of biofuels in the nation's fuel supply by 2030, and limiting subsidies to huge agribusiness operations. "Too many family farmers are being squeezed as big agribusiness take up larger shares of federal subsidies, takes up more market share, manipulates prices and contracts, makes it harder for family farmers to control how they run their own farms," Obama said.

      sources: The Associated Press , The Des Moines Register

    39. christopher says – reply to this


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      don't play that game perez. don't get a busie in the whouse because of something so … well, fucking stupid.

    40. i hate spics says – reply to this


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      The republicans will win the White House for the next 50 years because the right will always use gays as the wedge. Log Cabin Republicans run the machinations of that party(rich gays)

    41. LookAtThePhonyPlant says – reply to this


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      Re: Henry Krinkle – You're the cowardly f*cking creep on here.
      Dirty Campaigner, you are. Clinton camp? Whose? You're spouting total untruths all over the place. You're a really transparent plant. R U Paid?

    42. You're Scary, Dude says – reply to this


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      Re: The Schoolyard – Such a literate, dignified communication style. You communicate like a vicious, hating, dysfunctional nut case. No wonder you're so viciously and pathologically angry; no friendly exchange of ideas with you. You have no friends, do you.

    43. Scotty says – reply to this


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      Obama has as much chance of being elected president as some of you posters.

    44. A says – reply to this


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      WE HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TEAM HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    45. STELLA says – reply to this


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      LARRY CRAIG FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST FUCKING WIT YA!!!!!!

    46. Truth. says – reply to this


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      Re: i hate spics – No, the Republicans will win the next 50 years because electronic black box voting is as crooked as a U-turn.

    47. EB says – reply to this


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      like i've been saying since the days of clinton (bill that is), the best thing to EVER happen to the republican party is the democrats. so thanks, losers! thanks for the likes of the REV. jesse jackson, racist a$$ al sharpton, stupid a$$ john kerry, and obama! thanks a lot. you gave us all the boost we needed. might as well get off your asses and find a job … it'll be at least another eight years before we FULLY support your baby-having, non-working, gay rights asses.

    48. cam says – reply to this


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      He's thoughtful and forward thinking. Maybe its a slow process but how is anyone ever going to understand another's position unless they are included and exposed to it in an open way. It happened in my family. Social skills 101. Cut out the devisive bullshit.

    49. paula says – reply to this


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      I love it! Keep on backing O'Bama, Perez!

      You are both idiots.

      You are supposed to believe whatever O'Bama says.

      I think that's hysterically funny, myself.

      SPIN*SPIN*SPIN*SPIN.

      hee-hee-hee

    50. HASBEEN says – reply to this


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      EXCUSE ME - BUT ISNT THIS THE NOTORIOUS TERRORIST LEADER THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIDING IN AFGHANISTAN??? I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK

    51. In your dreams says – reply to this


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      Re: sunny johnny

      only in your dreams you piece of shit..I bet you
      butt screw obama in your dreams too, don't ya?

    52. whatashame says – reply to this


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      what a panderer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 yuo need to stop backing this guy - he'll throw you under a bus in a heartbeat if it will get him votes down south.

      PANDERER!

    53. Henry "non plant" Krinkle says – reply to this


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      Re: LookAtThePhonyPlant
      FUCK YOU MAN! I'm no PLANT– I just figured out what your small mind is having trouble processing. OBAMA is a fucking PIECE OF SHIT for tapdancing to that McGurkin Gospel FUCKWAD and now all he can do is pretend like he wasn't. OBAMA is the WORST primarily because he can't even handle stupid shit like this. Why do you think I'm a plant? CAUSE I HAPPEN TO MAKE A HELL OF A LOT OF SENSE?!? That is the usual weeping song for losers like you and Obama. Screw you and your washed up blubbering flippy-floppy candidate. The only sad thing to think about is how much money has been blown on this chickenshit LOSER. Try HOWARD DEAN 2.0, Obama– YOU ARE DONE BABY!!! DONE!!! DONE!!! DONE!!!!

    54. sparkz says – reply to this


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      im tired of gay ppl thinking they deserve a trophy or something for being gay i just hate when ppl scream to be treated equal but want to be rewarded..equality is when no one cares enough to talk about yall fagit asses anymore….gotta have a flag and shit and a parade who the fuck yall think yall are………TEAM BARACK!!!!!!!! ATLEAST SOMEBODY IS KEEPING IT REAL AND NOT DODGING QUESTIONS

    55. EB says – reply to this


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      Re: sparkz – AMEN! (except for the team obama comment) I fully agree! i have more respect for him now than i did in the past … still not enough respect to give him my vote, but that said, i'm glad someone has the balls to tell the truth.

    56. mark says – reply to this


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      he is a snake….VOTE HILLARY!

    57. love.x says – reply to this


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      actually. if you look at past elections. EVERYTHING that happens before the summer before elections is forgotten by 90% of americans. all they really look at is the facts that they hear right before the election. and i mean 90% of the people that are registered to vote, and that do vote. which is probably .02% of the population. :o

    58. Bianca says – reply to this


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      1) The media always misconstrues EVERYTHING, so unless you were there in person… don't believe it. They EDIT everything for their own personal interests!!!! I've seen it happen too many times!

      2) Obama has the nations best interests in mind, take the time to research his campaign, the policies he plans on implementing, run a background check, and then state your opinion. reaaallly do it people!

      3) i would looove nothing more than to support hilary and see a woman win the presidency, BUT obama knows what he is talking about & i think he's the man for the job.

      it's about time we get rid of Bush and get the REAL DEAL!

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