Good Obama Music
Broadway for Obama held a benefit concert in Easton, Pennsylvania last Monday. The concert featured over 30 Broadway stars, dozens of local high school and college students (the stars of today and the...
View ArticleObama realizes the traditional media is a huge problem
Newsweek just published an awesome article with campaign tidbits. Plenty of entertaining stuff about the degeneracy of Sarah Palin, her ridiculous shopping spree, and her willingness to appeal to the...
View ArticleThe streets of Philadelphia (photodiary)
I was part of Obama's legal team in the streets of Philadelphia and I met so many amazing and inspirational people. Thanks to all of you for showing how amazing this country can be. . . . To all of my...
View ArticleWe can win marriage equality in New York - very soon!
As Coretta Scott King bravely declared before our country was ready:I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people. ... But I hasten to remind them that...
View ArticleMarriage Equality in New York - YOU CAN MAKE CHANGE NOW
Ok, this post has almost nothing to do with Barack Obama himself, except that the spirit that Obama represents is a bottom-up fight for justice spirit. And on the issue of marriage equality, we the...
View ArticleStanding up for civil rights: Proud to be a NY Dem
I've spent a lot of time working to elect Democrats and, too often, been greatly dissapointed because they cut deals and sell out the people the very people who elected them. From voting for the Iraq...
View ArticleIraqis honor Bush with a statue: Epic Fail (updated)
In September 2003, Richard Perle, a man who has an astounding record of being wrong about everything, said:a year from now, I’ll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is...
View ArticlePam Karlan, brilliant civil rights lawyer, openly gay and possible Supreme...
President Obama has outlined his view for selecting judges, and I'm happy that it's basically the opposite approach that his predecessor took:I think the Constitution can be interpreted in so many...
View ArticleDear John ... and Elizabeth
Like thousands of others, I fought my heart out for your campaign. I believed in the message that poverty in America was immoral and that we must do something about it; that our economic and political...
View ArticleElena Kagan, Powerful Advocate and Possible Supreme Court Justice
Here's what President Obama had to say about the judges he selects:I think the Constitution can be interpreted in so many ways. And one way is a cramped and narrow way in which the Constitution and the...
View ArticleIt was illegal for us to marry? Equal Marriage in NY
Here's a clip of my fiancee and me:She's gorgeous, right? Inside and out. I can't imagine living in a world where I wouldn't be allowed to marry her. But, 50 years ago, we couldn't get married in...
View ArticleThe lyingest Liar of them all lectures the president
Because profound incompetence combined with no sense of self-awareness means never having to apologize, Paul Wolfowitz is once again posing as a foreign policy expert.I think reasonable people can...
View ArticleThank you Teddy for helping make my marriage possible
The greatest victories are often forgotten because they created a world where the conditions over which the the victor triumphed are obsolete Senator Kennedy was a great man who spent his life fighting...
View ArticleLouisiana Judge refuses to issue interracial marriage licenses
I just married the love of my life in September. It was pure awesomeness:Karla is black; I'm white. It's not too big of a deal to most people. But it turns out that - today in 2009 - a Lousiana judge...
View ArticleMarriage Equality in New York: Vote Tuesday. Action Diary
Sorry for the hit & run, but this is too important not to share: Governor Paterson has announced that there will be a marriage equality vote in the NY State Senate on Tuesday. For those of you who...
View ArticleNew York will have marriage equality & we will have a new Senate
Today the New York State Senate voted to deny the right to marry to millions of New Yorkers. I am deeply saddened by the actions of the New York Senate. By choosing to stand on the wrong side of...
View ArticleLooking back on a decade of triumph, tragedy & love
The title of my diary may be a cliche, but what a decade, politically and personally.When the decade began, I was a 21 year old kid, 3 years removed from graduating in the bottom half of my high school...
View ArticleStill PROUD to represent the DEMOCRATIC wing of the Democratic party
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will. -Frederic DouglasRemember back in 2003 when most elected officials went along with the destructive Bush agenda because they were...
View ArticleKen Mehlman & George Wallace; Redemption isn't easy
I'm happy that Ken Mehlman decided to publicly come out of the closet and then to join the fight for marriage equality.Personally, it must have been a wrenching decision and Mehlman deserves some...
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