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...groundswell from among the general public, not as the product of a planned campaign strategy. Indeed, Obama seems to be the latest victim of a political trend that most recently subsumed Republican candidate Ron Paul. A staunch Libertarian, Paul is certainly one of the more eclectic politicians running for president??his opposition to the Iraq War and free trade made him a pariah in most of the Republican debates...
...hearts and minds of millions of Americans will not be changed by back-door negotiating and the swipe of a president??s pen. Jacob P. Reitan, a prominent LGBT activist and current student at Harvard Divinity School, expressed disappointment in the state of LGBT activism precisely for this reason. “The LGBT community is very weak on raw action,” he said. “We lobby Congress, work on getting votes for legislative decisions, but we rarely take to the streets to convince people of our rights.” He asked...
...Bill Clinton, who Toni Morrison could have also called the “first gay president?? because of his outreach to LGBT people in 1992, stepped away from his campaign promise to undo “don’t ask, don’t tell” as soon as he became president-elect in the face of a wave of opposition that startled him. Would a sitting Democratic president risk mobilizing the Right in 2012 by stepping out on a limb for LGBT rights...
...need to make good on our claim of ‘we the people.’” Moses added that he saw Obama’s campaign—and the debate it has sparked over whether America is ready for a black president??as the continued expansion of the Constitution to include all Americans. When asked by an audience member about the state of public education in America, Moses turned the question around, asking audience members to raise their hands if they would support a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to an education...
...There is rampant speculation within the pages of the Collegian that the university president??s attempts to sell the paper are connected to the public uproar over the Bush editorial last fall, when the editor-in-chief, David McSwane, was disciplined but allowed to keep his position. Nevertheless, the incident is hardly grounds to hand over responsibility for the paper to an outside company. In the words of Sean Reed, the Collegian’s editorials editor, “a petty dispute with a small group of students is no reason to hand a CSU tradition...