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Barack Obama has been listed on “Friends of Slog” for nearly two years. A commenter suggested that after today’s bombshell—gay marriage is like incest and child rape!—we vote on whether Obama gets to stay on the list of Slog’s friends or joins KUOW on Slog’s enemies list.

This poll, like all Slog polls, is scientifically sound and legally binding.

76 replies on “Should Slog De-Friend Barack Obama?”

  1. And there’s really no way to unsay what he said today, is there? At least not without revealing himself to be the slimy manipulative opportunist detractors have always claimed him to be.

    I want to puke.

  2. President Obama is a friend of SLOG.

    But, on the other hand, you refuse to follow the votes and go after the enemies of SLOG in the House and Senate …

  3. I think “Neither” should be an option. He’s clearly not a friend, particularly with you guys just being named a “Top gay blog!” But, enemy? I don’t know. I’d be for it to make a point, but he’s no Focus on the Family. Or Garfield, for that matter.

  4. A true friend
    will tell you the truth,
    even if it is
    uncomfortable to hear;
    you
    VILE
    DISGUSTING
    FILTHY
    ANIMALS.

  9. The Obama administration has stated it will defend federal law no matter what an individual’s (Obama’s, Holder’s, etc.) opinion is on the law. No, do people seriously think this is a bad thing? Have people already forgotten what it was like to have a president and an administration with absolutely no respect for the law? An administration who would take the law and do with it as it pleased, even if clearly going against what the law said?

    Fuck, I might have to take SLOG off my friends list.

  10. And to be fair, @ Schmader . . . he didn’t say this, did he? These horrible things weren’t written by him? I’m not saying that excuses him, but unless I missed something (which is entirely possible, given the volume already out there about this), there isn’t anything for him to unsay.

  12. No. You should keep him as a friend because he is. Not all friends are perfect, some do stupid things that make you hate them, but you have to remember that you were friends once for a reason, And I have a feeling is was for more than just DADT.

    I think you should talk it out.

  13. Yeah, fuck Garfield.

    Really, all this is talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk. Dan talks, bristles, talks, goes on Rachel Maddow, Rachel talks, bristles, talks, tosses it to Keith Olbermann, Keith talks, bristles, talks.

    And nobody does ANYTHING. Not a damned thing.

    In the past, to effect change, folks had to organize their communities, have sit-ins, rallies, protests, speeches, marches. Hell, when they were giving interviews, they were almost always in the middle of some protest, rally, speech or sit-in. Or jail.

    Now it’s all blogging and tweeting and sitting around, and instead of people with any reach building their numbers and starting some kind of movement or organizing protests and rallies, they make 90 posts about how furious they are. Or, “let’s defriend him!!!!!!”

    No, fuck that. Fuck “fierce advocates”. Where’s our fierce leaders, Dan?

  16. Barrack needs to stop being a frienemy and start being a better BFF.

    This just seems soooo blatently “in your face” fuck you from the O admin that I can’t help but feel somewhere in the corner of my happy place that his final word (whenever the fuck that happens) will be in our favor.

    I’m willing to admit that I’m totally dreaming.

  19. ha ha I told you retarded naive wimpy liberals that The Obama would throw you fags away like a dirty used cum rag – AND I WAS RIGHT

  20. Chill people. Obama didn’t say any of the things you claim he said. Besides, I don’t think you want Obama as your enemy. Just ask McCain.

  21. Number of SLOG people posting on supposed gay blog about DOMA – 999,999.

    Number of SLOG people actually sending a frickin postcard to the White House and their anti-gay State delegation to the House – 2.

    Yeah, go march and have it not covered on any of the local TV networks. That will help.

  22. I say keep him as a friend. In part, I agree with #9 statement that the brief was meant to show that the administration will adhere to federal law.

    On the other hand the way it was said is horrible.

    I think at some point very soon Obama himself will actually say something about this. Let that be the deciding factor, not the Justice Department. I think he’s got a decent chance of spinning this.

    He’d have to make a grand gesture, but in the end, it could be better.

    Or he could say nothing. I’d give it a couple days. If nothing happens, dump him. But don’t make a snap decision. I haven’t.

  26. Isn’t it interesting how much time Will in Seattle spends defending this? I wonder how much of a friend HE is to you guys…

  27. Jesus! The whole “he compared gay marriage to incest and child marriage” thing is taken way, waaaaaaaaaay out of context. You are no longer in the same *galaxy* as the original context. It’s all based on one report by John Aravosis (certified whackadoo), which mischaracterized a legal brief, written by some DOJ flunky, that was making a technical point about states rights!

    Everyone take a collective deep breath before you start burning Obama effigies in the streets, okay?

  28. Aren’t folks more likely to be pro gay marriage if they know a gay person? Haven’t you written that yourself several times, Dan? So, obviously, we need to keep him as a friend.

  29. What percentage of Slog is about gay marriage and what part is about other aspects of life? If it’s only about marriage, then definitely defriend him.

  33. Cate B – you have just a little bit of knowledge, which makes you a dangerous person.

    This wasn’t a “small, technical point”. The comparisons to incest and things of that nature were to demonstrate what’s called the “rational basis test”. See, when governments restrict rights, the Courts evaluate those restrictions under three levels of scrutiny. The “rational basis” test means that the government can basically do almost anything it wants.

    Comparing gay marriage to incest was a way for the DoJ to demonstrate other ways the State controls sexuality, and for what reasons, and that therefore control of homosexuality has a “rational basis”.

    So, no, stop marginalizing it.

  34. Well all you naive fags ignored the fact that your erstwhile Savior went to a racist black-nationalist church for over 20 years, a CHRISTIAN church that also gave a lifetime achievement award to notorious racist and homo-hater, Louis Farrakhan. If that mountain of evidence did not clue you in to what Obama might be thinking, then you are a FUCKING CLUELESS NAIVE RETARD who deserves everything that The One shoves up your butthole.

  35. Still a friend, pissed as I am. There are more issues out there, including my ability to go to Europe without having to pretend I’m Canadian, and the possibility I can see Persepolis as a tourist.

  36. A year and a half ago I did my best to make people see about Obama what I saw. That he’s an opportunistic, social climbing, lying bigot. He is no friend of our community just a good liar who’d sell his mother for the oval office. If you vote for this tool he’ll come back to bite you in the ass inside of a year. Well guys, I hate to say that I told you so but, I TOLD YOU SO! You should have voted for McCain. At least you knew where we stood with him. Me? I voted Libertarian. A wasted vote you said then. Well, now who’s vote was a waste?

  39. I wish there was a third option as well. Friends don’t break their word to you; but, he’s proven to be extremely calculating & cagey. Some tiny part of me wants to hope that he has some other long term strategy. BTW: already wrote my local representatives, now doing the obligatory whitehouse.gov form which will doubtless be ignored. I wish there was something bigger that could be done.

    …seriously: ugh.

  40. AR- Okay, please correct me if I’m wrong here, but here’s how it rolls: the DOJ files this brief, in which they state that homosexuals are not a suspect class, therefore, the court should use the rational basis test instead of heightened scrutiny to decided if gay people are being denied rights by DOMA. They also say that, under the rational basis test, SoAndSo cases (cases of marriage involving family members not being recognized by other states, etc) show that there is a basis for DOMA being legal as a matter of states’ rights.

    So are you upset that they’re making a legal argument that homosexuals are not a suspect class? In what way is that not a technical legal point? I understand it’s an important thing, but I don’t see how they could have made their argument without it.

    My point is, okay the DOJ is doing something majorly shitty here by filing this brief, but the comparisons that everyone is getting so het up about are really a minor point in this brief. The REAL issue is that the Administration shouldn’t have filed this at all. And maybe Obama fucked up by not stopping them from doing so. But people are acting like Obama came swooping down off Marine One holding a giant banner saying “GAYZ R PERVERTS AND CHILD MOLESTERS!!!”

  41. This is all well and good, but there’s nothing being written about this that’s showing up on the main pages of CNN, Washington Post, Seattle Times, or PI. So you’re talking to dead air.

  42. Erica C. Barnett: It’s impossible for me to imagine this happening if HRC had been the Democratic nominee. As of today, I am willing to say you were right; I was wrong. Shoulda been Hillary.

  43. @41 Will in Seattle aka Loveschild:
    Are there millions marching in the streets demanding healthcare for all? No. Awww.

  45. I did not know that Slog’s influence was so great as to hurt our President politically or otherwise by de-friending him. Needles to say that it wouldn’t endear you with that many people. Who do you think would end up loosing a political battle? My bet is not with Slog.

  46. Needles to say, your loosing your mind, Loveschild. Why would you think you have a rational world view if you can’t fucking spell?

  48. yelling at me does nothing to change it.

    what are you prepared to DO?

    gay rights didn’t happen in Canada because people asked for it.

  49. New poll.

    Dick Cheney…SLOG’s “New Best Friend”

    Former vice president Dick Cheney this week voiced his support for same-sex marriage, as long as it is handled by the states and not the federal government.

    Cheney, whose daughter has a longtime female partner, said at the National Press Club that “people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish.”

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…

  50. Keep in mind that Will in Seattle’s head is so far up Obama’s ass that he’s seeing the world through POS, oops, POTUS’s eyes.

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