I'd like to comment on congress apologizing for slavery. Who the hell do they think they are?!? Maybe THEY feel the need to apologize, but they have no right to do so for anyone else! Why should any of us need to apologize for something we had no part of?! Is Africa apologizing for THEIR ancestors selling their own people into slavery? Because thats exactly what they did. For God's sake, get over it!! None of us were even a twinkle on the planet when all that took place, and no one living today has ever been a slave, so let it go, and move on, unless you enjoy stagnating in the past pool of ignorance. These people who are attempting to be so politically correct are only succeeding in making asses of themselves. Even the ones they are trying to impress are laughing at them. And when our president finds it necessary to bow to some pot bellied tyrant dictator, it is embarrassing for the whole U.S.A.----if we accept that he did so on our behalf, which I, personally don't accept. And his saying that America is arrogant is totally misguided. It was that "arrogance" that got us the top spot as number one nation in less than 200 years---that, plus our ingenuity. When people are given the opportunity to live their dreams, everyone profits, the government, and every person living in freedom benefits from each other's talent. We are a nation consisting of the best every other nation had to offer at the time we were formed, and everyone offered their own brand of talent which they brought from their various countries, including the Africans who, eventually joined us, and even the American Indians gave us their talents, once we worked out a peaceful relationship, and because of this we became the greatest nation. We will remain so only if we stop allowing what others think of us to guide our actions. And if we allow God to guide us. Other countries had the talent, we are no smarter or talented than they, but we used ours to the best of our ability because we based our government on FREEDOM. And if that is what President Obama is referring to as "arrogance", then all I have to reply to that is: THANK GOD FOR THOSE ARROGANT FOREFATHERS WHO GAVE US ALL A COUNTRY TO BE PROUD OF AND A HERRITAGE THAT WILL LIVE ON, IN SPITE OF SOME WHO WANT TO DESTROY IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
The Log Cabin’s Repair Job
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In the 2008 election, 4 percent of the voters identified themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, according to a CNN poll, and 27 percent of them voted for John McCain—numbers that seem to indicate a healthy space in politics for the Log Cabin Republicans, the party's most visible gay organization. But as its annual convention in Washington wraps up this week, the LCR is running on fumes: it currently has no full-time employees—its executive-director position has been vacant since January—and this year's convention had to be run by consultants from local chapters. "The Log Cabin Republicans are not in any sort of danger right now," says Charles Moran, head of the Los Angeles LCR chapter, who also brushed off the void at the top. "We're not just going to accept anyone who applies. In fact, we can wait: like the GOP is trying to refashion itself, Log Cabin is looking to do the same."
Some former Log Cabin officials blame the group's current predicament, ironically, on the man who's keeping it financially afloat: Colorado tech tycoon Tim Gill, who has emerged as one of the LCR's leading donors. The problem is, Gill is a Democrat. His involvement with Log Cabin began in 2004, when it made waves by refusing to endorse President Bush for reelection, a decision that former board member Mark Mead says was driven by a $350,000 check from Gill. "[He] was attempting to be bipartisan but was not," says Mead, who left the organization in April 2004 in a downsizing effort. He added that Gill "bought and paid for the non-endorsement" and that the LCR, which has often struggled with fundraising, finds Gill's check-cutting "addictive." A spokesperson for Gill declined to comment.
Gill, 55, is known as one of Colorado's "Four Millionaires" whose fundraising efforts helped Barack Obama win the state in the 2008 race, turning it blue for the first time since 1992. But not everyone blames him for Log Cabin's devolution. "I don't begrudge Tim Gill," says Christopher Barron, who was its political director through 2005 and applied for the executive-director vacancy but was turned down. "The fault lies in the leadership of the group who … took all this money from Gill with strings attached." This month, Barron and another ex–Log Cabin officer launched GOProud. Its target: gay conservatives who aren't interested in waiting around for the Log Cabin to get rebuilt.
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