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    <title>Don&#39;t fall for Obama&#39;s hollow hope and squander the opportunity to achieve Democratic Party goals</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:47:12 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;by Geoff Staples&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama&amp;rsquo;s&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;hope&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;is the new&amp;nbsp;version of Ronald Reagan&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;morning in America.&amp;rdquo; Like Ronald Reagan, Obama is a charismatic and inspirational speaker. That&amp;rsquo;s not where the similarity ends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ronald Reagan went to Philadelphia, Mississippi to make his notorious states&amp;rsquo; rights speech&amp;nbsp;and pander to&amp;nbsp;Southern&amp;nbsp;racist bigots during his 1982 election campaign. Obama claims that civil and human rights for gays and lesbians&amp;nbsp;are&amp;nbsp;states&amp;rsquo; rights issues and Obama sent&amp;nbsp;the rabidly anti-gay Donny McClurkin to denounce gays and lesbians from the stage of&amp;nbsp;his South Carolina gospel tour. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t believe black evangelicals to be anti-gay bigots, but Obama does, or he wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have sent McClurkin to do the dirty in South Carolina. All Democrats should be outraged that Obama would insult black evangelicals by assuming them to be bigots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama&amp;nbsp;has attended a racist church for 20 years. He claims that most whites, like his white grandmother, are afraid of blacks.&amp;nbsp;Reverend James Meeks, another Obama spiritual and political mentor, has been cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a leading black partner of&amp;nbsp;Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defense Fund. What are we to make of this? Obama wants us to ignore&amp;nbsp;his close association with hate-mongers and bigots&amp;nbsp;while he ...</description>
    
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    <title>Are you guilty of Larry King&#39;s murder?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:15 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>&lt;em&gt;Do you oppose full and equal rights for&amp;nbsp;LGBT people? Do you justify your&amp;nbsp;bigotry against gays by citing&amp;nbsp;The Bible? Do you oppose equal marriage rights for all people?&amp;nbsp;Instead of being sanctimonious and proud of your actions, bow your head in shame and beg for God&amp;rsquo;s forgiveness. Geoff Staples&lt;/em&gt; &lt;blockquote cite=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=o42_UpP_uB0&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/o42_UpP_uB0&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;citation&quot;&gt;&lt;cite cite=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=o42_UpP_uB0&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=o42_UpP_uB0&quot;&gt;YouTube - Lawrence King Tribute - Very Sad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;citation&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/results?search_query=larry+king+murder+gay&amp;amp;search_type=&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;More Videos about Larry King&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    
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    <title>Will the conventions be fair? Or wil SD 23 blacks once again abuse their power?</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:02:47 -0500</pubDate>
    <description>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;http://www.dallasvoice.com/artman/publish/article_8462.php&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dallas Voice :: Letters March 28, 2008&lt;br /&gt;Will the conventions be fair?&lt;br /&gt;by Geoff Staples&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the Texas Democratic Party Senate District Conventions being held this weekend (Saturday, March 29), I wanted to alert the community to what happened at the Senate District 23 Democratic convention in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a Democrat because I believe the Democratic Party to be the party of equality, justice, liberty, respect and economic opportunity for all persons. Unfortunately, the 2006 SD 23 convention caused me to doubt this belief.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was a delegate and a member of the Resolutions Committee. In that committee, we discuss and vote on resolutions covering the gamut of current issues. At the 2006 convention, the Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution calling for universal health care and when it was brought to the floor of the convention, the convention affirmed they did not support universal health care.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Equally appalling, the Resolutions Committee voted down a resolution calling for gay and lesbian families to have equal rights to marriage and the benefits thereof. African-American committee members abused their one-vote majority and block-voted against the resolution while every other person on the committee voted for passage. During the discussion, some of ...</description>
    
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    <dc:creator>Geoff Staples</dc:creator>
    <title>Democratic House passes Employment Non-Discrimination Act! as Republicans attempted to throw single Americans under the bus</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:44:21 -0600</pubDate>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Democrats in the U. S. House of Representatives passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act at 6:20PM EST today. Unfortunately, the version which did not include Gender Identity was not the bill that passed, even though it is believed it could have passed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Senator Ted Kennedy is the primary sponsor in the Senate and it is expected the bill will pass and go to the president&amp;rsquo;s desk. Unfortunately, we will get to watch George W. Bush veto civil rights for a group he and the rest of the Repugnant Party despise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;House Republicans attempted to throw single Americans under the bus to indulge their bigotry and contempt for gay and lesbian Americans. The Republicans introduced an amendment that would allow employers to discriminate based on marital status to create an end-around in which employers could refuse to hire gays and lesbians because they are ineligible to marry (or at least, single).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please puff your chest with pride at&amp;nbsp;you look at the Democratic Heroes and Heroines below. &lt;em&gt;Warning: take&amp;nbsp;some anti-nausea medication before reviewing the&amp;nbsp;Democratic bigots.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Democratic_Heroes_and_Heroines&quot;&gt;Democratic Heroes and Heroines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Honorable_Mention&quot;&gt;Honorable Mention&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Democratic_Bigots&quot;&gt;Democratic Bigots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Cowardly_Democratic_Bigots&quot;&gt;Cowardly Democratic Bigots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;hr width=&quot;50%&quot; color=&quot;#0000ff&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h3 align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Democratic_Heroes_and_Heroines&quot;&gt;Democratic Heroes and Heroines&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Voted No or didn&#39;t vote because Gender Identity not included in bill. ...</description>
    
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    <title>Ridiculous assertions</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:35:44 -0600</pubDate>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;1. Global warming doesn&amp;rsquo;t exist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. The Earth is 6,000 years old.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. Evolution is just a theory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. Water-boarding is not torture and is not illegal.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Senator Feinstein and Senator Schumer, you make me ashamed to be a Democrat!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    
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