A GAY DAY IN THE USA!

Anyone who wants to learn how dreams come true instead of simply being wished for needs to read this New York Times story, The Road to Gay Marriage in New York.

The story gets to the gist of how a unified sense of purpose had to take control over and supplant the naked idealism which had previously fractured the cause of Gay Marriage equality in New York state. 

Sadly the ink from Governor Cuomo's pen had hardly dried on the bill before some gay idealists (like Rachael Maddow) returned to the backbiting and bloodletting that had truly made them part of the problem and not the solution.

When President Obama repeats his old saw of wisdom 'Let not the perfect become the enemy of the good' he might henceforth be tempted to add the afterthought 'the way Rachael Maddow and Jon Stewart do'. For it is an undeniable fact that their childish and relentless self righteous snickering has consistently worked against their stated objectives. Whenever the president puts forth a goal that is clearly for the common good they harshly critisize him for not adding the words 'RIGHT NOW!'

History will show that no one did more to set the stage for the passage of this groundbreaking civil rights bill than President Obama did when he successfully fulfilled his campaign promise to end the discriminatory Don't Ask Don't Tell policy in the military. President Truman's decision to desegregate our armed forces destined that change in society. President Obama's signing of legislation ending discrimination based on sexuality in the military has done the same.

'Right Now Rachael' proved her ineptness as a liberal leader to me with her 'My version of the State of the Union' earlier this year, in which she snarkily delivered a rebuttal to President Obama's SOTU. She essentially promised that in the next year of a 'Maddow presidency' every problem on the face of the earth would be solved, not another drop of oil ever burned and we would all ride to work on pink ponies, where we would be paid to have pillow fights.

And while I'm balancing the books here, hey Jon Stewart, when President Obama was on your show he asked you a question you have yet to answer, 'why didn't you have your rally to restore sanity in August of 2008 instead of 2010?

I'll end with an excerpt from the NYT story that the link and picture above are from...

-Mr. Cuomo was diplomatic but candid with gay-rights advocates in early March when he summoned them to the Capitol’s Red Room, a ceremonial chamber with stained-glass windows and wood-paneled walls.

The advocates had contributed to the defeat of same-sex marriage in 2009, he told them, with their rampant infighting and disorganization. He had seen it firsthand, as attorney general, when organizers had given him wildly divergent advice about which senators to lobby and when, sometimes in bewildering back-to-back telephone calls.
“You can either focus on the goal, or we can spend a lot of time competing and destroying ourselves,” the governor said.
This time around, the lobbying had to be done the Cuomo way: with meticulous, top-down coordination. “I will be personally involved,” he said.
The gay-rights advocates agreed, or at least acquiesced. Five groups pushing for same-sex marriage merged into a single coalition, hired a prominent lobbying firm with ties to Mr. Cuomo’s office and gave themselves a new name: New Yorkers United for Marriage.

Those who veered from the script faced swift reprimand. When Assemblyman Daniel J. O’Donnell, an openly gay Democrat from Manhattan, introduced a same-sex marriage bill in May without first alerting the governor’s office, he was upbraided by Mr. Cohen. “What do you think you’re doing?” the governor’s aide barked over the phone.-

Rachael Maddow, Jon Stewart, consider yourselves reprimanded.