A Stitch in Haste

You know Hillary Clinton is desperate when she starts reaching out to gays:

Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would defend gay rights as president and eliminate disparities for same-sex couples in federal law, including immigration and tax policy.
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Clinton said she and her husband have many gay friends that they socialize with when they get the chance. "I've got friends, literally, around the country that I'm close to. It's part of my life," she said.

"Some of my best friends are gay..."? That's her LGBT platform? How 1962 of her...

She said that when they ask her why they can't get married, she tells them marriage is a state law. She said that fact helped defeat a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex weddings that she said would "enshrine discrimination in the Constitution."

Liar or ignoramus -- take your pick (I'll go with "liar"). Marriage is a federal issue at least as much as a state issue. She of all people should know, for example, about federal DOMA -- since it was her pervert husband who signed it into law.

(She did vote against the Marriage Protection Amendment -- good for her -- but she didn't exactly go out of her way to point that out in the interview, as her circuitous "that fact helped defeat" language demonstrates.)

Clinton also peddled her longstanding hypocritical position that she will work to end DADT, but only after she's elected president:

Clinton also said she would [e]liminate her husband's policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" that prevents gays from serving openly in the military. Asked if she could do so by a signing order connected to a military appropriations bill, Clinton said she didn't think that is possible but she would look into it and do it if it were legal.

The pesky fact that she could do far more to help end DADT now, as a sitting senator who is on the Armed Services Committee, remains her "gay rights" original sin and remains the reason why the only sane response to her panders is for gay Democrats to tell her to go to hell. Those gay Democrats who don't are barely one rung higher on the self-loathing ladder than gay Republicans.

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One parting thought: If Clinton is so dedicated to LGBT issues, then how come there's exactly nothing about gays on her official website? Not just nothing about this one interview, mind you, but nothing about gay issues at all -- at least nothing easily locatable. She can find the bandwidth for a "Women" page, a "Veterans" page and even a "Rural America" page (and of course a "Socialized Medicine" page). But no "Gays & Lesbians" page? So much for "some of her best friends are gay."

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Meanwhile:

Despite concerted efforts, Senator Barack Obama has not granted a formal interview to the Philadelphia Gay News. PGN, now in its 32nd year and the nation's most-honored LGBT newspaper, is taking the unusual step of displaying Obama's lack of communication to the local LGBT press, leaving blank space on the newspaper's front page where Obama's interview would have appeared, illustrating his lack of accessibility to the local gay press. Obama has not granted a formal interview to any local gay press in 1,522 days, when he spoke to the Windy City Times during his Senate race in 2004.

The revelation that Obama is, at best, a political nullity on gay rights is not new news. The only two reasonable bases for gays to vote for Obama are: (1) he's not Clinton, and (2) he's not McCain. Whether those are sufficient reasons remains an open question. (Via Outright Libertarians.)