SOCIAL: politics is a filthy business

[Manish Champsee]

apparently the yes side had a rally with Obama signs and yes on 8
signs to further confuse people.

Manish.

Standing at the corner of Duboce and S. Van Ness holding my No on 8 sign

On 11/4/08, Gretchen Larsen <gretchenlarsen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm personally appalled...and yet I don't know that I really expected
> anything better.
>
> So I went to the "Yes on 8" website the other day, i sometimes like to read
> up on what the other side is saying.  i was on the site for less than a
> minute - couldn't stomach the dribble I'd gotten myself into - but since
> then I've been getting "yes on 8" popup ads in yahoo and when I go online,
> ugh.  as if that wasn't enough - today's popup had a picture of both mccain
> and obama saying "at least they agree on something" and "marriage is between
> a man and a woman" as if obama supports the prop.  if you click the ad it
> goes to a page stating that all candidates and their running mates agree -
> with pics of palin, mccain, obama and biden and quotes from all 4.  of
> course they're only bending the truth because technically they are saying
> they all define marriage as between a man and a woman...more ugh...but on
> election day they are implying - heavily - that the obama-biden ticket
> endorses their measure. ugh, ugh, UGH!
>
> the really sad thing is the quote from Biden, I'm guessing was said
> in opposition to measures like Prop 8
>
> "Neither Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what
> constitutes marriage. We do not support that."
> —  Sen. Joe Biden, Vice Presidential Debate,
> October 2, 2008
>
> here's the ugliness:
> http://www.protectmarriage.com/app/webroot/four/
>
> I guess there's far worse out there, but i still think this sucks!
> I already called and reported it to the obama folks, but if any of you guys
> are online and want the screen captures let me know and I'll send them
> along.
>
> gobama!
> no on 8!
> yay for Tom!!!
> and a big woo-hoo for all of you out there fighting the good fight to get
> out the vote and be active in our political process!
> cheers,
> G
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