Does Obama Have A Problem with LGTB's?

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Does Obama Have A Problem with LGTB's?

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From the Philadelphia Gay News:

Clinton talks; Obama balks

The Democratic race for president has been heating up for months. And where once eight contenders graced the national stage, only two have made it to Pennsylvania’s primary: Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In these months, an alliance of LGBT papers sought to speak with the top three contenders — Clinton, Obama and former Sen. John Edwards — to no avail. Now, with the delegate spread hovering around 150, smaller constituencies, including the LGBT community and their superdelegates, are playing a larger role.

PGN invited both Clinton and Obama, as well as presumptive Republican candidate John McCain, to speak with us. Only Clinton granted an interview.

See here.

The paper also states:
At this point in the Democratic presidential campaign, we're able to view the candidates by their actions. And we have found that Sen. Barack Obama would rather talk at the LGBT community than with them...

The fact is that Obama has spoken with the gay press only twice, and one of those interviews...was in 2004, before he became a U.S. senator. The other limited interview occurred after controversy erupted when his campaign added an anti-gay minister to his tour of the South. It has now been 1,522 days since Obama has been accessible to our community.
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Why should we care?

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Please enlighten us with what LGBT's actually are and why should anyone care???
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Re: Why should we care?

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Abel wrote:Please enlighten us with what LGBT's actually are and why should anyone care???
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender people.
Abel wrote:and why should anyone care???
Because -- as shown by your ignorance of the acronym -- Republicans sure as hell don't.
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Thanks for your kindness

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Thanks for kindly helping me with that new acronym.

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