Americablog: Don’t Donate to DNC

I committed to send the obama campaign one dollar per day intil the health bill was finished. Now I want to put a time limit on this committment but haven't found a way to do so. Never get responce to any of my E_Mails.

I have removed myself from Obama's email group or whatever it is that got his message out to millions of supporters. I never gave money, but I can shut off information, at least in my small part.

The only thing supporting the DNC will do is insure that 'illegal immigrants' are given the path to citizenship and full civil rights (unless they're gay) before I, a legal citizen am given them. The Democratic Party may throw us a bone before the 2010 election but it'll just be a bone and the rest will be it's just not time but we do support repealing DOMA. President Obama is not the 'fierce advocate' that candidate Obama promised to be. He gives a great speech but Actions speak louder than words and his Administration is totally lacking on our civil rights. I will bet he starts talking about bringing illegals out of the shadows again and works for a bill to do that and leaves us in the shadows to be the ATM to pay for their Social Security and the over 1000 rights they will be given that we will not have. Candidate Obama fooled me once, shame on him, President Obama is soliciting funds and I won't shame myself by giving to him or the DNC.

I just want to say that Obama has NOT been in office a year yet. While he has been slow to extend gay rights he has done a lot more for the country than our previous president (with a war and economic recession on his plate no less). Let's continue to support him and voice what needs should be met in our community to him and our local politicians. It is warring within our community and within the democratic party that leads to successful republic bids for office. Let's use our voices until we can no longer be ignored and build up a base of support.

Chung Fang, sweetie, take a breath and calm the fuck down! No one said to not donate money to a Democrat politician who's running for office and who actually supports the Gay Community. They said to not donate to the DNC. If you can't see - or take the time to see - or have no brains to see the difference there, then you should just put a cork in it and let the big boys and girls play. If we continue to support namby-pamby Democrats who do NOTHING for us, how does that help us? Yes, I realize that Republicans are evil, and if the ONLY choice was between a Republican and a Democrat, I'd vote for the dem - but we're talking supporting people WELL before the only choice we have is between an evil Repub and a Republican in Democrat's clothing (like Feinstein). Get some perspective and proportion, Penelope, and for Krist's sake - take a valium like a normal person.

Obama is the empty-suit I feared all along. His speeches are beautiful and look how we all ate it up. He's too busy running for 2012 and doesn't want to lose the independent vote. So the blah, blah, blah goes on. We as a minority must 'ACT-UP' now. One way is to withhold money. Yes, the republicans hate us, but the democrats are scared of us. They are pandering to a group of wingnuts that will never vote for them anyway. We as a group must make clear we won't take it anymore. Our civil liberties must be taken to the courts. We can't have bigots voting on our rights. The only way to voice our outrage is to stop donating to the democrats!

Look, if you want to donate money, you should. This organization doesn't say you should shut off your donations completely. Just stop donating to Obama, Organizing for America and the DNC. I'd also say that the HRC is also completely unworthy of your money right now. Power in Washington comes from money. Groups and individuals that can dole out money are correspondingly more powerful. So we should make sure that the groups and individuals that get our money will be actively working for LGBT rights right now. By all means, donate to individual congressmen and senators who unambiguously support LGBT rights (e.g. Tammy Baldwin, Jared Polis or Jerrold Nadler). By all means, support PACs and organizations that are pushing for change now. That strategy is better than just blindly giving to the DNC. Candidates who receive funds that way know exactly why they are being supported and will be more likely to stand up for us.

"The Repulican's have never lied about their disdain for our kind." Ok, so the republicans have fought for gay rights in America? Can you name one???

So are you going to vote and give money for GOP?? You do realize that once GOP takes over. it is over for us..??

There's a difference between support and action. There's little difference between empty promises and lies. The Repulican's have never lied about their disdain for our kind. Democrats have played us for years. John and Joe are simply pointing out that fact vis a vis the Obama administration. Einstein's (or someone's) definition of insanity is to do the exact same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. Or as that icon of intellectualism George W. Bush put it, "Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again." Well, momma didn't raise no crazy fool. The DNC and OFA won't see my cash again until promises are finally kept.