Tammy Duckworth gave two of her limbs in Service

[Aerows]

and nearly a third.

I'm gay.

I do not want to hear another damn person condemn her. You couldn't stand in her shoes, because hers are made of titanium.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Who here are condemning her? I dont want to hear it either

[Aerows]

6. And attempting to drag in an LGBT organization

on top of it.

I'm fuming.

[sufrommich]

2. Seriously,some are condemning her??

Holy shit! I love Tammy Duckworth,she's one of my heroes.

[Aerows]

3. Yep, and associating a gay organization

that "endorsed" a Republican opponent against her.

I don't appreciate the smear attempt to lump gay folks with stupid folks.

[sufrommich]

4. Yes,I just saw that and commented.

Sad.

[Aerows]

5. I guess I'd be sad

if I wasn't absolutely infuriated.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

7. HRC endorsed her opponent, which I find absurd. Not sure what you are talking about

which is why I asked.

I am thinking HRC is playing politics because maybe Kirk is agreeing to support Garland.

[Aerows]

9. I was pissed about the association of Mark Kirk with

the endorsement by an LGBT organization.

Kirk is a Republican.

This election is going to be the fucking death of me.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

10. I think HRC is playing politics as Kirk may be willing to support the SC appointment.

It makes me angry, but I think that is what is happening.

[Aerows]

12. The entire campaign is baffling.

I can't wait for November to get here, for better or for worse. I detest this mess.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

13. I would say we took a turn for the worse lately, but the truth is Obama brought

out the ugliest and most hateful among us and this is all, including Trump, the accumulation of that.

We are an extremely racist country and we are proving it.

[Aerows]

14. I see nothing racist about

standing behind a woman that not only talked about serving her country, but lost her legs in sacrifice.

I'm a Democrat. She's a Democrat. If supporting her makes me a bad Democrat when the Republican loses, then name me bad.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

16. No no no, not what I meant. I meant you were talking about how the politics are

crazy, I was just referring to the general state of things outside of this specific.

I support her and I think HRC is playing politics.

[Aerows]

17. I apologize if that was what was gathered from my post.

I guess being upset at having the gay community linked up with Mark Kirk (republican) as supporters, because I am certainly gay, and certainly no way, shape or form a supporter of Republicans, it stung.

Not your post, but the whole situation.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

19. When I saw the headline earlier today I was angry as hell.

And no matter the reason they are doing it, it is wrong.

[Aerows]

27. Agreed. n/t

[Jitter65]

24. Another lie about Hillary. It never ends. nt

[Jackie Wilson Said]

25. Not Hillary, Human Rights Campaign

[Aerows]

32. Nothing involving Hillary. n/t

[AlbertCat]

49. Another lie about Hillary. It never ends.

Oh brother.

There's certainly no reason to make up bad things about Hillary.

[Scootaloo]

18. Wait... clinton endorsed Kirk over Duckworth?

Am I getting you right?

[Jackie Wilson Said]

21. No...Human Rights Campaign

[Scootaloo]

22. Oh. I was about to say.

[Aerows]

37. I know that I posted like the world was going to end

But that is rather how I post.

I see this as urgent. Urgent to quit before we encounter the same roadblock in November.

[TeddyR]

57. To be honest

When I saw HRC I thought you meant Hillary too.

[Aerows]

23. A gay organization endorsed Kirk over Duckworth.

I'm pissed about that.

Gay people should not be painted as traitors by association.

That said, I could have been more articulate because I went nube clear.

[a la izquierda]

42. What the fuck?

I'm not a lesbian, but my mother is, and my uncle is gay.
I read the Mark Kirk story before and almost barfed.

[Aerows]

50. Maybe I am not articulating this well enough

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/21/1504481/-Shameful-Gay-rights-group-endorses-Republican-Mark-Kirk-over-Democrat-Tammy-Duckworth

Mark Kirk is endorsed over Tammy Duckworth.

Duckworth is a Democrat and has enough credentials to shatter a wall.

Kirk is a Republican that is doing everything under the sun to slime his candidate, and the gay community along with it.

I've been so pissed, I couldn't correctly articulate.

[a la izquierda]

53. No, you articulated just fine. I am so livid, hence the WTF. nt

[Aerows]

54. I understand being so

pissed that you are at a loss for words.

I'm standing right next to you in that regard.

[AngryAmish]

8. I am missing something.

Or someone got started early today.

[Aerows]

11. I'm pretty certain that at this stage in the campaign

how weird it has become, I could jump off of a bridge and emerge from the water in the best shape of my life (probably wouldn't be far from now, though )

What on earth?

I get more stunned every day.

[KamaAina]

26. Human Rights Campaign inexplicably endorsed Kirk over Duckworth.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511545584

[AngryAmish]

28. Well, aren't they supposed to support the gay candidate?

No matter. Duckworth wins in a landslide.

[KamaAina]

29. That one I had not heard.

So he and Lindsey Graham have a caucus?

[Aerows]

31. "They"

No, we are not monolithic.

But several of us get pissed off when we get an organization that *claims* to represent us, instead smears us.

Nutshell.

[AngryAmish]

38. At last, I get it.

Yes, Mark Kirk is gay. However, my snark aside, HRC should support candidates that support equality.

Personally, I find the closet abhorrent. But many of my friends are closeted to their parents, who for people my age are mostly in their 80s. Yelling at a semi-senile person about equality is cruel. So I get why some people stay in the closet to their folks.

I think HRC really pulled a mistake here.

[xloadiex]

40. Yes it's been rumored here for quite a while

that Mark Kirk is gay.

[xloadiex]

55. I wasn't meant as a smirch

It's more that it is known and he denies it. Relax.

[AlbertCat]

51. Yes, Mark Kirk is gay.

and a republican....so there's clearly the sound of clashing going on in his head. I don't understand gays joining organizations that hate them. Some gay republicans I know are very very rich.... but that's no excuse. Rich people are still rich when Dems are in charge. Most gay republicans I know are republicans as part of their "act" to seem straight to their families.

[Aerows]

61. this election

is going to kill us all, isn't it?

[JI7]

15. Maybe they endorse any incumbant as long as their record on gay rights is ok

[Aerows]

20. I am just not capable of that type

of one issue direction.

[KamaAina]

30. Nope.

Most immediately, Kirk's record on gay rights is far weaker than that of his Democratic opponent, Rep. Tammy Duckworth—according to no less an authority than HRC itself. In 2013-14, Kirk earned just a 78 percent score on HRC's report card, and in 2009-10, he managed an atrocious 39 percent. (Kirk has no rating for 2011-12, presumably because he missed many votes while recovering from a stroke.) By contrast, Duckworth, who was first elected to Congress in 2012, notched a perfect 100 percent in 2013-14. In what universe does it make sense for an advocacy group to support the candidate who is unambiguously worse on their key issues?

[Aerows]

33. Thank you for getting my point

and interjecting that into the conversation.

[KamaAina]

34. De nada.

So I guess we can weave the lei maile (the Hawaiian way of burying the hatchet ) over the Great Iced Tea Incident.

[malokvale77]

36. Yes...

just as Bernie's record on LGBT rights is better than Hillary's. I'm beginning to get a very clear picture who and what they really care about.

[DURHAM D]

35. That is correct.

They have done this before and it always pisses us off. So we drop membership for awhile and then go back because we are adults.

[Aerows]

39. Seemed fitting.

#t=118.6345

[MerryBlooms]

41. Kirk is such a slimy piece of shit.

Anyone endorsing him and his filth lose all my respect and money. Cripes, WTF???

[Aerows]

46. It makes me want to gag. n/t

[MerryBlooms]

47. No doubt.

Hang tough. Duckworth is going to kick Kirk's ass by a HUGE margin. It will be awesome when that piece of shit Kirk fades into nothingness.

[jalan48]

43. Tammy Duckworth is an exceptional person. We need more like her in the Congress.

[Aerows]

45. I agree, whole heartedly. n/t

[stupidicus]

48. well, that's far from the only blemish on the HRW record

eom

[Aerows]

52. I am attempting to gather my perspective.

I was so angry about this, that I couldn't put a sentence together.

I pretty much still can't.

[Odin2005]

56. I'm reminded of the shit Max Cleland got dragged through in 2002.

[TeddyR]

58. That was completely

I don't know, shitfuck? Never forget that one and the lows that the Republicans will stoop too.

[Aerows]

59. Have mercy

Max Cleland got drug through hell, only to come home and get dragged through it again.

My forgiveness will never extend to the sob's that sand-bagged a man of virtue.

[Bluenorthwest]

62. HRC has long had my condemnation for many reasons including this habitual endorsing of Republicans

Yes, this is not the first time. They have made a bunch of nasty endorsements and also betrayed the transgender part of the family and they are mostly popular with DU's straight Hillary supporters who proudly stand with them because they endorsed Hillary.

Here is a straight DUer straight splaining to us about how great the HRC is and using it to mock Bernie. I am fed the fuck up with these majority members who post about LGBT issues and groups as a weapon of partisan politics. Many of them promote themselves as super insightful and sensitive about minority issues and the judges of others. But they gay bait, with abandon. For Hillary....

Now even the Human Rights Campaign is part of the "establishment" according to Bernie.
I guess gay rights has come a long way -- when even the largest gay rights group in the country can be criticized for being part of the "establishment."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511054265

[Aerows]

63. "Straightsplaining"

That makes me so angry I *KNOW* I'll get banned.

Visualize the words "fuck" "asshole" "shithead" and season with a solid bit of "fuck you".

You might arrive at my pissed off casserole.

[Bluenorthwest]

64. The teflon bullies of DU, pushing Hillary bull with every nasty tactic in the book until they slip

and get busted.

[LostOne4Ever]

65. The Human Rights Campaign is attrocious

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]From betraying the trans community time and time again, to endorsing republicans over democrats with better records.

Tammy Duckworth should get the endorsement of any LGBT+ advocacy group with even the slightest amount of integrity.

Something the HRC lacks.[/font]

[Aerows]

66. It absolutely pisses me off.

Tammy Duckworth should get the endorsement of any LGBT+ advocacy group with even the slightest amount of integrity.

She most certainly should.

[Blue_Tires]

67. Folks are throwing Duckworth under the bus now?

I don't recognize this DU anymore...

[Aerows]

68. If I said something awful to you in this thread, could you please forgive me?

I was so deeply, and intensely angry about this that my judgment was clouded.

Thank you for choosing to overlook me getting absolutely hostile as hell over this.