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Report: McCain meets with president of Log Cabin Republicans

Does this help McCain?

HOTAIR-Unconfirmed as yet by the campaign, but the LCRs say it’s so:

A source with close ties to the Log Cabin Board of Directors provided information about the meeting to GayPatriot earlier this week. This source disclosed that the Log Cabin meeting was not reflected on Senator McCain’s published schedule in advance and the meeting…

Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon confirmed the meeting with Senator McCain in email correspondence with GayPatriot earlier today…

Based on published news reports, the meeting with Senator McCain would be the first between any national-level gay Republicans and a Republican Presidental nominee since “The Texas 12″ met with then-Governor George W. Bush in 2000.

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18 Responses to “Report: McCain meets with president of Log Cabin Republicans”

  1. JohnKonop says:
    June 27, 2008 at 3:26 am

    Obama’s wife says he’ll fight for gay equality

    NPR-Barack Obama will fight for equal rights for gays just as he fought to help working-class families overcome poverty, the Democratic presidential hopeful’s wife told a gay Democratic group Thursday.

    Recalling his past work as a community organizer to help struggling families, Michelle Obama said he would take the same approach as president.

    “Barack believes that we must fight for the world as it should be, a world where together we work to reverse discriminatory laws,” she said at a Manhattan fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee’s Gay and Lesbian Leadership Council.

    Michelle Obama also drew a connection between the struggles for gay rights and civil rights.

    “We are all only here because of those who marched and bled and died, from Selma to Stonewall, in the pursuit of a more perfect union,” she said at the event, held days before the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots between gays and New York police, and the city’s annual gay pride parade.

    “The world as it is should be one that rejects discrimination of all kinds,” she said.

    Touting her husband’s record pushing for workplace discrimination legislation as an Illinois state senator and his support of civil unions, Obama noted her husband also had brought a call for equality to conservative groups, telling churchgoers they need to combat homophobia in the black community.

    The Illinois senator opposes a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and says states should make their own decisions on the matter. He has said he’s interested in ensuring that same-sex couples in civil unions get federal benefits.

    His Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, also opposes a federal constitutional amendment but worked to ban gay marriage in his home state. McCain supports the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, while Obama has called it “counterproductive.”

    Michelle Obama’s speech brought a standing ovation from the crowd of about 200 donors, who raised about $1.3 million, organizers said.

    Earlier Thursday, she spoke in Manchester, N.H., and credited Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband’s rival for the Democratic nomination, with bringing the concerns of working families to the forefront of the presidential campaign.

    She heard from New Hampshire women juggling such work and family concerns as child care and caring for aging parents. She explained her husband’s plans to expand sick time and paid family leave, help parents afford child care and make sure women get equal pay for equal work.

    “We are closer to this America than ever before, and that’s because of an extraordinary woman who’s not in this room but she’s traveling with my husband tomorrow, and that woman is Hillary Clinton,” Michelle Obama said to sustained applause.

    “I know that the folks here in New Hampshire know this better than anyone because you got to know the candidates up close and personal, but because of Hillary Clinton’s work the issues of importance to women and working families are front and center.”

    Clinton and Barack Obama are to make their first public joint appearance Friday in Unity, N.H.

  2. Bill says:
    June 27, 2008 at 6:11 am

    Are the Log Cabin Republicans mostly white gays or are there some black gays too?

  3. Bill says:
    June 27, 2008 at 6:20 am

    If McCain spearheads gay marriage and maybe gets that “sexual chocolate” guy to appear at some events Republicans could really pull the rug out from Obama.

  4. Bill says:
    June 27, 2008 at 6:26 am

    http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d135/dislipson/Living-Color-BH-02.jpg

  5. Hugh says:
    June 27, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    In addition to McCain meeting with the homosexuals (ps, I’m not politically correct, notice I didn’t reference “gays”!), he’s also met with LaRaza! Has he met with INFORMED White patriots yet? (of course not!)

  6. captain_menace says:
    June 27, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    Hugh, what do you have against the gays?

  7. Hugh says:
    June 28, 2008 at 11:17 am

    captain_menace, my problem isn’t with the homosexuals. I have close friends who are homosexuals. My problem is with the “Homosexual Agenda”. Here’s one link of many on the subject. And note this is NOT Wikipedia. Wikipedia is very, very PC on selected subjects!

    http://tinyurl.com/3u66zt

  8. captain_menace says:
    June 28, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    My problem is with the “Homosexual Agenda”

    Sorry Hugh, if that’s the name of a gay bar… I don’t frequent those.

    If you have a problem with the owner of the establishment, perhaps you should settle the matter with them, and not persecute the rest of the gays?

  9. Hugh says:
    June 28, 2008 at 6:31 pm

    Hey folks, please read posts 6, 7, and 8, especially post #8. It’s ever more clear to me that serious posts on “PC” subjects are not seriously discussed on this blog. Just jokes, name calling, etc., but not serious discussion on “PC” subjects!

    The captain did not respond to the referred link in my post #7. Perhaps he has no valid rebuttal, and of course, that’s understandable!!!

  10. captain_menace says:
    June 28, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    Look Hugh, I have a bunch of “gay” friends too.

    I’m not PC about it. I call them bitches, fags, queers, rump-rangers, ass-pirates, bull-riders, etc., etc.

    They don’t care what I call them (because they know I’m their friend), and I don’t care what they do with their private parts.

    I’ve also yet to see or hear of any kind of “agenda” as you discuss. As a minority group I do see that SOME of them (gays) have organized to achieve goals that SOME of them (gays) feel are worthwhile. I see this simply as a group of citizens exercising the right that they are entitled to under the Constitution of the United States.

    Don’t like free-expression, and freedom of speech?

    Move to China.

  11. captain_menace says:
    June 28, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    And…

    While my post awaits moderation…

    You’re a real piece of work Hugh!

    Who DO YOU LIKE?

    You don’t like ethnicities other than your own.

    You don’t like “gays”.

    Do you need everyone to be a white heterosexual in order for them to rank in your book as a human being?

    Pathetic!

  12. JohnKonop says:
    June 28, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    Hugh

    Do you think gay people should have equal protection under our laws?

  13. Hugh says:
    June 28, 2008 at 9:29 pm

    John, re your question in post #12:

    Yes, I think homosexuals should have equal protection under our laws as any individual should have. BUT, that might be a loaded question on your part. There should be no “extra-tolerance” for their behavior. I.E. what they do in their bedroom is their choice, but what they do in public becomes under the jurisdiction of our laws and aberrant behavior in public should not be tolerated.

  14. JohnKonop says:
    June 29, 2008 at 4:07 am

    Hugh

    I agree

  15. captain_menace says:
    June 29, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    “I.E. what they do in their bedroom is their choice, but what they do in public becomes under the jurisdiction of our laws and aberrant behavior in public should not be tolerated.”

    Too bad you were born so late in history Hugh.

    The Spanish Inquisition could have really used a man like you.

  16. Bill says:
    June 30, 2008 at 7:23 pm

    All that I’M saying is if McCain goes for the gay marriage crowd and really makes some headway toward legalizing gay marriage nationwide he could take away a significant number of voters from Obama. At least it’s POSSIBLE I guess. And if he keeps pandering to LA RAZA he can grab more Hispanic-American voters. I tell you what. The man has to be a genius.

  17. Bill says:
    June 30, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    He should start a new group called “Conservatives for Hyphenated-Americans”.

  18. Hugh says:
    June 30, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Bill, don’t you mean “Neo-Cons for Hyphenated-Americans”?

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