skippy the bush kangaroo: let us turn to the book of skippy, chapter 4, verse 3

Monday, October 29, 2007

let us turn to the book of skippy, chapter 4, verse 3

it looks like barack "to the future" obama is turning out to be barack "to the 1930's" obama after all.

john avarosis at americablog (and believe us, we only link to him to garner more memeorandum traffic, but we really got the quote from shakesville) reports that obama's latest gospel tour has turned into an anti-gay pride parade:

then, just when the concert had seemed to reach its pitch and about to end, [ex-gay cazy gospel singer donnie] mcclurkin returned to it with a full-blown plea: “don’t call me a bigot or anti-gay when i have suffered the same feelings,” he cried.

“god delivered me from homosexuality,” he added. he then told the audience to believe the bible over the blogs: “god is the only way.” the crowd sang and clapped along in full support.

[ed. note: what blatant bigotry! what prejudice! what outlanding intolerance! how dare he endorse the bible over blogs?]

the political implications of his performance are not clear. the concert-goers we talked with afterward were generally more focused on making allowances for mr. mcclurkin’s past homosexuality than on anything about mr. obama.

the obama campaign had appeared to be caught off guard by the reaction to inviting mr. mcclurkin in the first place, and it may have been surprised tonight by the degree to which the singer focused on himself. the other speakers and singers had avoided referencing the controversy. even an openly gay minister whom mr. obama had invited after the fact to try to appease his gay and lesbian critics spoke so early that few people heard him.

this will not endear obama to any progressive, and we would posit that anybody who was waffling or on the fence about obama will not come firmly down on the side of "how's john edwards looking?"

meantime, "ex-"gay donnie mcclurken had better watch out for the wrath of skippy, for skippy is a vengeful 'roo, and ye shall hold no other blogs above him.

Labels: gay/lesbian, obama, prez campaign

posted by skippy at 4:31 PM |

3 Comments:

"ex-"gay donnie mcclurken had better watch out for the wrath of skippy,

No, he'd better watch out for the wrath of Larry Flynt and his investigative powers! Woe be to the hypocrite!

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Left I on the News, 5:24 PM PDT

The Netroots have now become irrelevant. You think anyone in America, outside of you dopes gives rats ass about this.

And yeah, and the netroots have done so well with their Edwards BS, he is sinking like a stone.

You want me to pick a warmonger like Edwards over a superb Senator that predicted everything that has happened in Iraq because of some guy that appeared at a rally.

Yeah, OK.

The Netroots have jumped the shark.

commented by

Ken, 8:51 PM PDT

this will not endear obama to any progressive, and we would posit that anybody who was waffling or on the fence about obama will not come firmly down on the side of "how's john edwards looking?"

i really am disappointed by obama on this anti-gay thing, but it hardly endears me to edwards. i honestly don't get why edwards is to popular with liberal bloggers.

the biggest issue in the election is the iraq war, and obama is simply better than both clinton and edwards on that issue. while edwards has now admitted his earlier support for the war was a mistake, that doesn't save him from my basic concern that he voted for something that he knew would result in the deaths of thousands of human beings for simply political expediency. the vote itself is so repugnant, he and clinton should be excluded from any serious decisionmaking position simply because it was such a profound and morally troubling failure.

obama was always against the war. of the major candidates he's the only one who did not support the murder of thousands of people. he seems to be pandering to the anti-gay segment of the population, which is horrible, but it's not nearly as bad as what edwards and clinton did in 2002. and, the bottom line is that obama's LGB voting records is fairly good.

you're right to be outraged by obama on this issue. i'm hoping the bad press will get him to reverse his support for mcclurkin. but even if he doesn't, obama's problem does not make edwards or clinton any better.

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upyernoz, 8:02 AM PDT

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