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This will be a bad morning for the partisans. The bias charge will be in the air, hyperbole in warp drive, and moral outrage in the red zone. Let’s start with the bad news for Obama: As the April 22 primary gets closer, Clinton is shoring up gay endorsements in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia’s largest gay political group, the Liberty City Democratic Club, gave its endorsement to Clinton this week.

“Her record of accomplishment is proof positive that she’ll be a fighter for the LGBT community in the White House and that’s what we need,” said Matthew Woodcock, a spokesperson for the group.


The nod from the the Liberty Democratic Club comes a few weeks after the Steel City Democrats, located in Pittsburgh, announced their support to Clinton. All of this gay love mirrors the polls, which have Obama trailing his rival.

Alas, there is some rain on this Clinton parade. Despite the Rev. Wright fallout for Obama and the assumption from the clattering class that he was done, the senator from Illinois remains in a dead heat with Clinton. More good news for Obama is that her negatives are on the rise, even with women.

That same poll showed Democrats need to be concerned how the bitter race between Clinton and Obama make it easier for McCain to take the White House come fall; however, why should the party be worried? Much better to sing to the choir and “be right” than to win an election or two.

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  1. @Reality Vote

    Of course you'll vote -- as will all closet Republicans -- for McCain if Hillary is not the nominee; after all, there is little difference between HRC and the Republicans. Thankfully, Obama represents a return to the progress values of the Democratic Party before it was hijacked by the Clintons and the DLC
  2. No Hillary 08? / Go McCain 08!
  3. COME ON! She doesn't even want to repeal the entire DOMA! I cannot believe they endorsed her. I like Hillary on many issues but at least Obama wants to repeal the entire DOMA... this endorsement does not seem well thought out...
  4. It is ridiculous that any LGBT group would endorse Clinton over Obama.
    Obama's LGBT positions are MUCH MORE progressive.

    I'm also a latina voter and I was just as outraged with misguided latino voters ignoring Obama's much more supportive positions for immigrants.

    This is really disappointing.
  5. Hill has the local endorsements of a couple of LGBT groups in PA? It reminds me of the studies that show an abused child often will express more love and support for the abusing parent than the non-abusive one. The only relationship more dysfunctional than the one between Hill & Bill is the one between the the Clintons & the LGBT political machine.

    Give me a break.
  6. I have a hard time understanding why our GLBT "leadership" is so smitten with Senator Clinton.

    Senator Clinton and her husband rewrite the history of DOMA by trying to recast it as "gay positive". That characterization is right out of "Through the Looking Glass" as far as I am concerned.

    Senator Clinton supports repeal of half of DOMA; Senator Obama supports repeal of the entirety of DOMA.

    So why is it, exactly, that Senator Clinton is going to be "a fighter for the LGBT community in the White House" and Senator Obama not?

    I think that the GLBT "leadership" ought to get over their obsession with Senator Clinton and look at the facts on the ground.
  7. At this point I don't think a free Barbra Streisand concert with Oprah as Master of Ceremonies could bring these two camps back together.
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