Comment by missmolly — November 29, 2007 @ 2:29 pm

A Tweety “Hah!” to you Missmolly!

How stupid for this to degenerate into a “who does he support” question. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is well past its sell-by date. All Americans, gay or straight, should be allowed to serve if that is their choice.

Ha!

This is the same Hillary who engaged in the most flagrant episode of prosecutorial abuse I ever saw in detail [pre-Mike Nifong]. To wit, this is the same Hillary who orchestrated the Billy Dale prosecution, the design of which was not to bring Mr. Dale to account for his misdeeds at the White House Travel Office, there having been none, but to pry him out of there so that she could give the travel business to her pals, the Thomasons.

And this is the Hillary who groans about the loss of integrity and politicization of the Justice Department.

Comment by Keltoi — November 29, 2007 @ 2:18 pm

You are suggesting the Repubs are vomiting their candidates? This might explain a few things…

Comment by Keltoi — November 29, 2007 @ 11:57 am

Personally, I’d love to hear what the Democratic candidates have to say on gay marriage (actually, at one debate they were asked that very question). Or any other topic. I’m tired of candidates being asked lukewarm sanitized questions designed to not embarrass them or put them on the spot in any way. This is why I no longer watch these events.

You have GOT to admit – Hillary vowing to undo Bill’s policies is funny. It is like Bill saying he was againt Iraq from the beginning, like when his wife was voting to authorize it.

I pray this surge for Obama in Iowa is for real and he gets the nomination. I will totally vote for him over anyone the Rs throw up.

The fact still remains the question is valid, and republicans screwed up.

Anyone who thinks because the guy’s name is linked to Hillary in whatever loosely tied bond invalidates his question, or makes it look like Hillary is pulling strings is 1)Wasting valuable airtime, 2)has an ax to grind.

The plant in Hillary’s audience before, is completely inappropriate and wrong..and I wrote her campaign a letter about it.

This Kerr thing is a nonissue; it’s personal for him.

WE ARE ALL AMERICANS – it shouldn’t matter who asks the questions.

Do you believe everything you read?

2)ThinkProgress…love this site, but on this post you are misrepresenting facts, and misleading people…is this intentional?

It’s already been discussed…AT LENGTH that Gen Kerr is a registered REPUBLICAN, and a member of the LOG CABIN REPUBLICANS…and records show he has NOT DONATED ANY MONEY to any campaign. The “association with Hillary” is a bipartisan Veterans association; HOW CAN HILLARY GET A FAIR SHOT if even “progressives” buy into the lies, and smears?

This is just one of many…I especially loved the time over the summer where it was blared all over the news (and liberal blogs) that she spoke in a fake accent to pander to southerners…where if you watch the damn clip you can see she only used inflection for a reading from a book; not the whole speech.

LIES…no wonder people hate the Clintons. Personally, anyone who starts out from modest means and works there way into a Presidential election, when you have 50 yo college frat boys who had 16 million in his daddy’s stock at age 13…that takes intelligence and a shrewd ability to plan. People saying Hillary wouldn’t have this chance if she wasn’t married to Bill, prove that misogyny is alive and well, and that’s my point exactly.

So it’s not because she’s not Presidential material and smart enough to get there on her own, it’s because HOW MANY WOMEN HAVE BEEN TAKEN SERIOUSLY as Presidential contenders?

I might disagree with her on some points..but her voting record by and large is Liberal. If you want to be President, or Senator, or anything..you have to play ball. She knows how to play it, and cover her entire rear end…once she gets into office, she’ll be head and shoulders above shrub junior.

I never said that. Had he simply said, “I am a member of HC’s LGBT committee and I’d like to ask a question” there would be no problem at all. It is the double standard that bugs me – WOULD you be okay with a secret Rudy supporter asking questions at a Dem debate? I mean, the Dems aren’t even willing to go to a debate sponsored by FOX, but Hillary gets to plant questions/questioners at a Repub debate? Is that fair coverage?

And don’t get me wrong, the debates are a charade anyway, they should just do a better job keeping the curtain in place.

“The list also includes prominent LGBT activists who have been leaders on issues important to the community, including three retired members of the military who have worked to overturn the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, advocates in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and the attorney who argued and won the landmark Supreme Court case, Lawrence v. Texas.
“Her commitment to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and her steadfast work to improve access to care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS are just two of the reasons why I support Hillary Clinton for President,”

I stand by my opinion. Since when should only Repukes get to question other Repukes…?

Since NEVER.

So…where’s the problem?
Comment by Leftside Annie — November 29, 2007 @ 12:04 pm

It isn’t a HUGE problem, but CNN has said that if they knew about his affiliation they would not have used his question and they have apologized.

It is just a full-disclosure/smell test issue.

There is also a delicious irony when you have someone who is a co-chair on a Hillary Clinton campaign committee grilling Republicans about a policy that was instituted by Bill Clinton! Triangulation doesn’t even do it justice, it is more like Double-Bank Shot Pyramidation.

What should really matter is — is it a valid question? And what were the responses to the question?

I find it fascinating that the Republicans have managed to steer the discourse toward being all about the legitimacy of questioners to avoid any discussion of the candidates’ answers.

Phil Singer, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, told Raw Story: “[Kerr] is not a campaign employee and was not acting on behalf of the campaign.”

Not a campaign employee, and not acting on behalf of the campaign. To my mind, that makes him just an American citizen asking a question of a candidate for President.

So…where’s the problem?

And you don’t hear me whining, do you?