The Obama campaign is lavishing some of its cash advantage on the LGBT community with targeted ad buys in Ohio and Texas leading up to the critical March 4th primaries in both states (Rhode Island and Vermont also vote that day). According to Obama LGBT Steering Committee member Eric Stern, the campaign has just completed an ad buy with queer newspapers in the four largest LGBT markets of those two states -- Columbus, Cleveland, Dallas and Houston.
This is a generic version of the full-page ad that will appear starting this Friday (2/29) in Outlook Weekly of Columbus, the Gay People's Chronicle of Cleveland, the Dallas Voice, and OutSmart, which is Houston based. Buying a full-page, four-color ad that appears one time typically costs anywhere between $1,000 and $2,000 in weekly publications. In the Gay People's Chronicle, for instance, the ad cost about $850 according to the paper's advertising manager; the same ad went for about $1500 in the Dallas Voice. (Ad provided by Obama '08)
The ads were the brainchild of Stampp Corbin, co-chair of Sen. Obama's National LGBT Leadership Council. Stern called the coordinated buy "the icing on the cake" in terms of the Obama camp's outreach to the gay community in Ohio and Texas. "It's a direct appeal to LGBT voters asking for their support," he said, adding that the ads will include market-specific information about how people can get involved with the campaign. The Obama campaign has actively been trying to cut into the longstanding ties between gays and lesbians and Hillary Clinton.
DADT is exactly why a gay person should support Hillary!!!
Bill Clinton was in '92 the political neophyte that Obama is now - promise 'change' without knowing the political realities. The fact of the matter is that our government is more than the president. Sure you can 'blame' Hillary and continue to look for the get-it-all-right-now savior that doesn't exist. OR we as a community can think STRATEGICALLY and MATURELY and reap the political capacity that those past errors have taught our allies. The Clintons learned the lessons of promising more than can be delivered; they learned that progress is always made in small steps. Hillary now knows how to get it done.
The political reality of repealing DOMA in its entirety are far smaller than repealing Section 3 because it means not only taking on the LGBT issue BUT also the very big issue of states rights. A very deal in DOMA and many other legislative issues is the concept that the states get to determine their own fate, e.g. Georgia is not going to go along with Californians telling it what to do. Regardless of how a legislator feels about DOMA, they can always fall back on the states rights issue. By only repealing section 3, one reduces the opposition to the repeal by saying it is the ‘right thing to do’ and by assuring the legislator that it does not affect what their state can do. Depending on their state, they could actually get the ‘best’ of both political worlds. Therefore, that legislator is more apt to repeal Section 3. If you try to repeal the entire DOMA, you have to fight two battles: the queer thing and the attack or erosion of a states’ power of self-determination.
WE must be willing to commit to moving forward, step-by-step, not standing and waiting for the panacea that doesn't exist to come by and pick us up. We have made an investment in Hillary - she's taken hits for us too - let us get her to the White House so we can reap the benefits of experience.
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